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KPMG gets Hands-on with systems integration
September 8th, 2015
KPMG Australia has announced its acquisition of Hands-on Systems, adding powerful execution capability to its technology-based transformation services. The acquisition strengthens KPMG’s global alliance with Microsoft, with KPMG today also being announced as a Gold competency partner for Microsoft ...
Credit Suisse Ordered to Pay Highland Capital $287.5 Million
September 7th, 2015
Credit Suisse Group AG was ordered by a Texas judge to pay Highland Capital Management LP $287.5 million for losses on a $540 million refinancing of a shaky real estate development. Highland had sought $377 million in damages in ...
Deloitte launches new leadership consulting practice
September 4th, 2015
Deloitte, the business advisory firm, today announces the launch of a new leadership consulting practice. The practice will recruit 700 people across Deloitte’s network of member firms by 2020 and 140 of these will be based in the UK.* ...
History of Bitcoin: The journey of a virtual currency
September 3rd, 2015
The biggest thing to hit the global market since the invention of currency is the word “Bitcoin”. What started merely as an alternate electronic payment system soon became the seventh wonder of modern economy. But while most of us ...
Law Firms Vs Technology: Doing business in legal technology
September 3rd, 2015
International Legal Technology Association (ILTA), and InsideLegal, the insider’s guide to doing business in legal technology, released the findings of the “2015 ILTA/InsideLegal Technology Purchasing Survey” (survey). 2015 ILTA/InsideLegal Technology Purchasing Survey highlights include: 57% of all respondents spend ...
Global Value Chains and Rethinking Production and Trade
September 2nd, 2015
Back in the 1920s and 1930s, manufacturing often meant enormous factories that tried to bring as many activities as possible under one roof–what economists call “vertical integration.” However, the trend in recent decades has been toward “global value chains,” ...
Atom taps Durham University maths department to develop new banking model
September 2nd, 2015
Digital challenger bank Atom is collaborating with Durham University and the UK government on a research project to develop a new model for retail banking. The project begins this autumn and is part-funded by Innovate UK, under the Knowledge ...
Deloitte’s latest survey results: Audit of the Future
September 2nd, 2015
Audits play a fundamental role in the capital market system, and Deloitte’s latest survey of more than 250 financial statement preparers, audit committee members and financial statement users reveals a shared sense that the traditional audit needs to evolve. ...
In The Month Of September 2015 We Officially Enter The Danger Zone
September 1st, 2015
Is September 2015 going to be one of the most important months in modern American history? When I issued my first ever “red alert” for the last six months of 2015 back in June, I was particularly concerned with ...
Avery Trading Selects Orc Tbricks for Next Generation Spread Trading Solution
September 1st, 2015
Orc, the global market leader in electronic trading technology for listed derivatives, today announced that Avery Trading has chosen Orc Tbricks for spread trading on CME Globex. Orc Tbricks is a next-generation trading solution, fusing innovative functionality with a ...
