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KPMG has promoted Tareq Al-Sunaid to Head of its Tax division for Saudi Arabia and Levant.
One of KPMG’s three main divisions (alongside Assurance and Advisory), the Tax practice advises corporates on all kinds of taxation matters including corporate tax, transfer pricing, indirect tax, and customs and excise tax.
The International Olympics Committee has signed up Deloitte as a top-tier sponsor and partner, with the Big Four firm to provide strategic and digital consulting support.
It began on April Fool's Day, but it was no joke what the founders of the German software giant SAP had in mind when they launched the company in 1972.
Fifty years later, SAP counts 99 of the 100 largest companies in the world among its customers. With Europe and Asia as its main markets, the company made a turnover of around €28 billion ($32 billion) in 2021.
NTT DATA Business Solutions AG acquires Business Services & Technologies OOD, one of the leading SAP service providers in Bulgaria, to further expand its Global Managed Services capabilities. Business Services & Technologies OOD has already been an external partner of NTT DATA Business Solutions for several years, offering a high level of quality and flexibility in their delivery. With the new location in Bulgaria, NTT DATA Business Solutions will have six global Managed Service Centers and operate in 31 countries across the globe.
An index charting the readiness and adoption of central bank digital currencies (CBDC) has seen Nigeria top the retail CBDC leaderboard with the e-Naira, launched in October 2021. Nigeria’s lead is closely followed by other early CBDC adopters, the Bahamas, Mainland China, Jamaica and Eastern Caribbean. The findings, from the PwC Global CBDC Index, capture the central banks’ progress and stance on CBDC development, in both a retail and wholesale context.
As Booz Allen Hamilton integrates two significant acquisitions, the government services company divested its business in the Middle East and North Africa.
Cadence, a Sydney-headquartered project management consultancy for the property sector, has joined Ernst & Young for an undisclosed sum.
Non-for-profit organisations are being encouraged to apply for a digital support program delivered by TCS, which will see the technology consulting firm provide $1 million worth of pro bono services.
Two of the world’s leading business services firms have come together on a new sustainability transformation offering for clients, with BCG and SAP combining their wares.
To help improve the sustainability of its Chinese operations, Swedish electric car manufacturer Polestar engaged management consultancy BearingPoint to help devise a strategic roadmap.
Once only in the realms of science fiction, advanced air mobility is fast becoming a reality. And according to a study by Rolls-Royce and Roland Berger, the APAC region looks set to lead the pack.
Global strategic consulting firm Bain & Company has installed a new managing partner for the firm’s Southeast Asia business: Wade Cruse.
Amazon.com Inc (AMZN.O) has secured 83 rocket launches over five years to put together a satellite constellation, called Project Kuiper, to beam broadband internet, the e-commerce giant said on Tuesday, as it looks to take on Elon Musk-owned SpaceX's Starlink. The deals were inked with Europe's Arianespace, Jeff Bezos-founded Blue Origin and United Launch Alliance (ULA), a joint venture between Lockheed Martin (LMT.N) and Boeing Co (BA.N), Amazon said.
International data science consultancy Artefact has launched a new office in Saudi Arabia, its second hub in the Middle East.
Big Four firm PwC has launched a campaign in support of the Dubai Can program, an Emirate-wide initiative aimed at reducing the use of single-use plastic materials.
Charles River Associates (NASDAQ: CRAI), a worldwide leader in providing economic, financial, and management consulting services, today announced five vice-president promotions across four practice areas. Clayton Reck from the Labor & Employment Practice, Kaitlyn Edsall from the Life Sciences Practice, Kristen Backor from the Life Sciences Practice, Matthew Ahrens from the Forensic Services Practice, and Susan Competello from the Risk, Investigations & Analytics Practice, have been promoted to the level of vice president.
Mercer, an HR consulting and asset management firm, has appointed Christopher “Chris” Williams as global inclusion and diversity (I&D) leader and Kaia West as I&D leader for US and Canada.
As enterprises continue to mature in data literacy, CIOs are looking to capitalize on data-informed decision making like never before. Businesses are hungry for actionable intelligence, and as a result, in 2022 we see a growing adoption of self-service business intelligence (BI) tools. Self-service BI tools aim to empower nontechnical business users to find their own actionable solutions (with guidance from their more traditional data and technical counterparts). Particularly in the enterprise, Microsoft Power BI is a frequent contender as the platform of choice, and for a number of good reasons.
Nearly 80% of supply chain leaders say their digital transformation has accelerated due to the pandemic, according to an industry report released today by MHI in collaboration with Deloitte.
BCG Digital Ventures (BCGDV), the corporate innovation and business-building arm of Boston Consulting Group (BCG), is opening two new Middle East innovation centers in Dubai (UAE) and Riyadh (KSA), putting BCGDV at the heart of the region’s burgeoning digital ecosystem.
