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Accounting Giants and Financial Consultant firm Pricewaterhouse Coopers (PwC) are developing a blockchain analytics tool that will track digital tokens. The company announced on Monday that the new tool will help businesses control what their tokens are used for.
KPMG
Business advisory firm KPMG has appointed Matt Malone as head of regulatory-led transformation. Matt will bring KPMG’s business consulting and technology capabilities together to help corporate clients face the rising tide of regulatory disruption and optimise mandatory change to align with the strategy and enhance business performance. Prior to joining KPMG, Matt spent four years at HSBC where he led its customer and conduct transformation programme across the investment, commercial, retail and private banking arms. Matt has successfully led a number of major customer, regulation and culture transformations in the financial services industry and was previously the director of financial services for KPMG Boxwood.
Panmure Gordon
Panmure Gordon has appointed Robert Naylor as head of corporate finance – investment funds. Robert will co-lead the investment fund division alongside Phil Hopkins, who is head of secondary – investment funds. Robert has over 20 years of experience in corporate finance, including 12 years specialising in investment funds, advising on numerous transactions, including primary and secondary equity fundraisings. He re-joins Panmure Gordon following two years at JP Morgan Asset Management’s investment trust business. Robert previously worked in the Panmure Gordon investment funds division from 2012 to 2016. Before that, Robert held senior corporate finance roles at Matrix Corporate Capital and Teather & Greenwood. Robert qualified as a chartered accountant at Ernst & Young in 1999. Robert replaces Paul Fincham, who, following an orderly handover, will in due course leave Panmure Gordon to focus on his classical music career.
McArthurGlen
The McArthurGlen Group, Europe’s leading designer outlet company, has announced the appointment of Shaeren McKenzie, currently group marketing director, as its first chief brand officer. In this newly-created role, Shaeren will focus on developing McArthurGlen’s consumer proposition, working in close cooperation with the company’s luxury and fashion brand partners, and developing and amplifying McArthurGlen’s global brand narrative to all consumer and business-to-business audiences. Prior to joining McArthurGlen, she held a number of leadership positions in the fashion, retail and advertising industries including marketing director at Sara Lee Corporation, which included global responsibility for brands such as Gossard, Berlei and Shock Absorber; managing director of the heritage British lingerie brand, Charnos; and marketing director at BHS where she worked directly for Sir Philip Green.
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HSS Engineers Bhd’s associate, HSS Integrated Sdn Bhd (HSSI) has won a contract worth RM289.9 million to be the independent consultant engineer for the Klang Valley Mass Rapid Transit Line 3 (MRT3) Circle Line project.
The new contract would raise HSS’ unbilled order book to RM962.5 million, according to The Star.
Getting the best people into the most important roles does not happen by chance; it requires a disciplined look at where the organization really creates value and how top talent contributes.
Voice-controlled shopping is set to explode in popularity over the next four years, according to a new report. While the nascent technology currently has relatively low market penetration and sales, voice shopping is expected to be the “next big thing”, like mobile and apps before it.
Management consultants, Deloitte, revealed the Brussels results of its new Global City Mobility Index, a global indicator of urban mobility.
The Index compares 18 cities based upon various criteria, such as air quality, the extent of public transport networks and strategies for the future. It emerges from this analysis that only 6% of journeys in Brussels are on foot or by bicycle. On average a Brussels resident will waste more than a working week (a total of 41 hours) per year stuck in traffic jams.
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the European Medicines Agency (EMA) have accepted AstraZeneca’s applications for cancer treatments moxetumomab pasudotox and Lynparza (olaparib).
NextContinent is a network of like-minded independent consultancy firms from around the world. All member firms share the same entrepreneurial vision – to seamlessly support their clients across borders with the powerful combination of local expertise and global reach. The NextContinent network is made up of over 4,500 professionals, of which over 1,500 are management consultants. With presence in 30 countries and more than 40 office locations globally, NextContinent has the breadth and depth of experience and expertise to help clients to successfully make change happen across their organisations in an increasingly complex world
A smartphone application using the phone's camera function performed better than traditional physical examination to assess blood flow in a wrist artery for patients undergoing coronary angiography, according to a randomized trial published in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal).
Super rich investors in mainland China are skittish towards robo investment advisers taking control of their investments, reflecting a major shift from the US where the asset management tool has enjoyed growing popularity, according to global consultancy McKinsey.
The investment and activity related to the InsurTech movement that began about 4-5 years ago show few signs of abating. If anything, the movement is transitioning into a new phase. But before even evaluating whether InsurTech is maturing, it is important to set some definitions and boundaries. Although some consider any tech firm with insurance solutions to be “InsurTech,” for our purposes, we are focusing on recent InsurTech startups, typically those that have been launched in the last five years. The question posed here is whether or not these startups are collectively maturing and moving beyond the initial stages of a startup effort.
The year 2017 was a landmark year for pharmaceutical industries in the US and Europe, with a sharp increase in the number of new molecular entities (NMEs) being approved in both geographies.
HCL Technologies Limited (HCL), a leading global IT services company, today announced the acquisition of C3i Solutions, a leader in multi-channel customer engagement services for the life sciences and consumer packaged goods (CPG) industries, from Merck & Co., Inc., Kenilworth, New Jersey, U.S.A. (known as MSD outside of the United States and Canada).
Global consulting firm BearingPoint enjoyed a bumper year in 2017, with revenues up 12% compared to the year previous to a record level of €710 million and profitability up 18% year over year.
China has more smart city pilot projects than any other country, but still has room to improve, according to a report.
Over 1,000 smart city pilots are ready for or under construction worldwide, and China is home to about 500 of them, covering big and small cities, according to a report by international auditing and consulting firm Deloitte.
BCS Technology, a leading provider of Blockchain consulting and implementation services, today announced that it has been identified as a representative vendor in the Gartner “Market Guide for Blockchain Consulting and Proof-of-Concept Development Services,”(1) report based on their provision of strategic advice, creation of Proof-of-Concept’s, and helping clients take Proof-of-Concept’s into pilot or production
When Long Term Care Insurance was a fledging product, my role as an advisor was to help clients determine if paying the premium was needed based on the wealth they had accumulated. I thought that if someone had enough money to "self-insure" then they did not need to apply for the insurance. This thought process of using a financial ledger to determine if one needed to purchase Long Term Care insurance changed for me one summer several years ago.
Delta Capita, the international business & technology consulting and managed services firm, has announced a strategic alliance with The Field Effect, a London-based consultancy specialising in securities financing, clearing and collateral management.
Wavestone intends to accelerate international development with the acquisition of a UK consultancy in the coming month. The global consultancy has announced that it has entered into final negotiations to complete a 100% acquisition of the unnamed firm’s capital
A study by Boston Consulting Group (BCG) found that 23 per cent of the total 9.93 million jobs in the country’s banking, insurance and securities sectors will be affected, with entry-level staff engaged in repetitious daily operations bearing the brunt of any cuts
