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Why PwC Was Involved in the 2017 Oscars Best Picture Mix-Up
March 1st, 2017
So why did the presenter for the Oscar’s Best Picture category have a Steve Harvey moment Sunday night? Well, it may have something to do with a name not often associated with the glitz and glamour of Hollywood: Accounting ...
App-only startup bank Monzo crowdfunding passed £2.5 million ($3.1 million) in less than 24 hours
March 1st, 2017
App-only startup bank Monzo has attracted enough initial interest in its £2.5 million ($3.1 million) crowdfunding campaign to fill it close to three times over, after less than 24 hours of pre-registration. Monzo opened pre-registrations for its crowdfunding at ...
Israel Tax Authority probing 30,000 more Israelis’ US accounts
February 28th, 2017
Information from the IRS will be cross-checked with reports by Israelis about their overseas assets. The Israel Tax Authority today announced that in recent days, it had obtained additional information about 30,000 accounts at US financial concerns belonging to ...
Bank of Israel keeps the interest rate unchanged
February 28th, 2017
Inflation data: The Consumer Price Index for January declined by 0.2 percent, in line with the average of forecasters’ projections. There were seasonal declines this month in the clothing and footwear component (9.2 percent), in the housing component (0.5 ...
Japanese Giant Hitachi Tests Blockchain Tech for 150 Million Member Rewards Program
February 28th, 2017
Hitachi, a major and decades-old Japanese conglomerate and multinational is implementing a blockchain platform onto its popular point management and rewards platform, PointInfinity. Japanese blockchain developer and bitcoin exchange Tech Bureau is providing ‘Mijin’ its private blockchain solution to ...
Accountants confident Donald Trump to accelerate U.S. economic growth
February 28th, 2017
More than two-thirds of CPAs and accountants expect President Donald Trump to accelerate U.S. economic growth, according to a recent survey. Thirty percent of public accountants in a recent Accounting Today poll are “very confident” and 39 percent are ...
Digital currency exchange Coinbase stop operation in Hawaii
February 28th, 2017
The Digital currency exchange Coinbase announces that it ceases operations in Hawaii after received a word from the Hawaii Division of Financial Institutions (DFI) back in September. That time the DFI informed that Coinbase and other digital currency businesses ...
Global (economic) warming
February 26th, 2017
If the economy was on its uppers, Trumpenomics could be reasonably compared with Reaganomics. But that is not the case. The economy is operating close to capacity, ….any further fiscal and monetary expansion will begin to create …. economic ...
Global diamond market sees moderate growth
February 24th, 2017
The global diamond industry performed moderately well in 2015, led by diamond jewellery retail sales, which grew 3 per cent at constant exchange rates, a report said. However, currency depreciation, as well as slower demand in China, contributed to ...
An investment management business in UK claimed £15m in damages but awarded £2 compensation
February 24th, 2017
An investment management business which claimed £15m in damages for stolen data from departing staff has ended up with just £2 compensation after a High Court judge ruled that no injury had been sustained. The Honourable Mr Justice Leggatt ...
