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...Griggs said that having tax under one umbrella reflected how clients bought services from PwC....
...Should the professional service firm be sentenced to pay damages to Wirecard shareholders, it could shift its existing audit business into the new entity and declare the old one insolvent, he warned....
...within the company after EY and the rest of the Big Four accounting and consultancy firms — Deloitte, KPMG and PwC — cut hundreds of jobs each in recent months amid a slowdown in demand for some of their services...
...Tesco’s decision to quit the business comes after rival J Sainsbury last month said it planned a “phased withdrawal” from its banking business and would instead sell financial services through third parties...
...Hultquist speculated that the leak, which was released on Microsoft’s GitHub, an online database and software development platform, could have come from a rival intelligence service, a dissatisfied insider...
...Apple faces a legal reckoning in 2024, with a series of regulatory decisions by US and EU authorities over the coming months set to determine the future of its $85bn-a-year services business....
...Moody’s expects business services, healthcare and “high-tech industries” to have the most defaults this year....
...Stephanie Cohen, one of the most senior female executives in Goldman Sachs’ history, is leaving to become chief strategy officer of digital services group Cloudflare....
...The performance was boosted by faster than expected growth in Alphabet’s Google Cloud services business, which reported revenue of $9.2bn, a 26 per cent rise from the same period last year....
...We welcome the Labour party’s — or indeed any party’s — plan to smash the UK’s “class ceiling” (“It doesn’t pay to be a working-class professional”, Business Life, April 8)....
...Chris Williamson, chief business economist at S&P Global Market Intelligence, said the UK’s recovery “continued to gain momentum” as improved growth in the services sector offset a renewed downturn in manufacturing...
...Ifo said sentiment improved in most sectors, particularly in services. “Companies were more satisfied with their current business....
...The succession comes at a turbulent time for the professional services sector....
...They feature leading examples of law firms changing how they manage their own people, and how they are reinventing services and delivery models....
...Legal services AI that can automate data collection and analysis is also much in demand — and legal services providers have been early adopters....
...The rise in business activity was exclusively driven by the services sector, with the index increasing to an 11-month high of 54.9 in April, from 53.1 in the previous month....
...The PMI for the services sector fell to 50.9 from 51.7 in March, indicating a slower pace of growth....
...Growth in the eurozone’s services sector offset weakness in manufacturing to lift S&P Global’s monthly gauge of corporate activity to its highest level for almost a year....
...One includes an Aegis missile defence system. Biden said on Friday that he expected Iran to mount an attack against Israeli interests “sooner rather than later”....
...There are no plans to sell any part of our business at this time.”...
...UK chancellor Jeremy Hunt will on Thursday sign a financial services deal with Switzerland, claiming it will make it easier for financial firms and wealthy individuals in the two markets to do business with...
...From customer service chatbots to data migration and overhauling research and development in healthcare, Schweizer said BCG is helping companies use AI to cut costs and increase productivity....
...S&P Global said the fifth consecutive monthly decline in eurozone business activity was the steepest since November 2020....
...In India — a global hub for back-office services — more than 5mn people work in IT and business process outsourcing, according to industry group Nasscom....
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