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KPMG International announced today aggregated network revenues of US$24.44 billion
December 10th, 2015
Investments in new services and innovation drive KPMG growth Investments in new services, acquisitions and strong growth across core services drive fiscal year (FY) revenues of US$24.44 billion Multi-year, US$1billion investment program in data and analytics (D&A) and new ...
Shale Doesn’t Swing Oil Prices—OPEC Does
December 10th, 2015
The oil cartel is still influential, and American shale can’t replace the world’s true “swing” producer. The breathtaking crash in oil prices has generated a new conventional wisdom: America’s shale oil industry has supplanted OPEC as the so-called “swing” ...
BDO’S 2015 Financial Results Reveal Double Digit Growth
December 9th, 2015
13% increase in revenues strengthens BDO’s position as the leading mid-tier global accounting and consulting network • Revenues up 12.95% • 19 strategic mergers • Growth of US firm continues: a 29% rise in revenues takes BDO USA over US$ 1 billion ...
ASIC: Etrade Australia Securities Limited pays $65,000
December 9th, 2015
Etrade Australia Securities Limited (Etrade) has paid a penalty of $65,000 to comply with an infringement notice given to it by the Markets Disciplinary Panel (MDP). The MDP found it had reason to believe that Etrade had contravened subsection ...
Commonwealth Bank Increases support for Australian leadership in Quantum Computing
December 9th, 2015
Commonwealth Bank has provided in-principle commitment for an additional $10 million to support Australian researchers who are well advanced in their efforts to build the world’s first silicon-based quantum computer in Sydney. CBA welcomes the Australian Government’s decision to ...
EU: Council agreed on first ever EU rules on cybersecurity
December 9th, 2015
MEPs close deal with Council on first ever EU rules on cybersecurity Transport and energy companies will have to ensure that the digital infrastructure that they use to deliver essential services, such as traffic control or electricity grid management, ...
Bitcoin’s Creator Satoshi Nakamoto Is Probably This Unknown Australian Genius
December 9th, 2015
Even as his face towered 10 feet above the crowd at the Bitcoin Investor’s Conference in Las Vegas, Craig Steven Wright was, to most of the audience of crypto and finance geeks, a nobody. The 44-year-old Australian, Skyping into ...
Microsoft blockchain-as-a-service embraces Ripple
December 8th, 2015
Microsoft is working with Rippleto add a pure play transactional financial services angle to its recently released blockchain-as-a-service (BaaS) toolkit, Microsoft announced in October plans to provide a blockchain platform on its Azure cloud using Ethereum. The idea is ...
A Fateful Mistake Haunts Goldman Sachs
December 8th, 2015
Bank faces fresh allegations of share-count error tied to Tibco takeover Goldman Sachs Group Inc. is entangled in an increasingly contentious fight over a 2014 takeover on which it advised, underscoring the treacherous legal environment for mergers-and-acquisitions bankers. Goldman faces fresh allegations ...
Deutsche Bank launches maxblue robo-advisor
December 7th, 2015
AnlageFinder robo-advisor for experienced and first-time investors / development in cooperation with fintech fincite / maxblue app for mobile securities trading maxblue, Deutsche Bank’s online investment platform, is expanding its services to include the AnlageFinder robo-advisor. The robo-advisor uses ...