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...Some of the world’s biggest audit and consulting firms are asking staff to use burner phones when they visit Hong Kong, a sign of the increasing difficulties global companies are facing in a city long known...
...Its risk advisory business, which includes cyber security and climate change advice, grew 17.5 per cent to $7.8bn....
...The US Securities and Exchange Commission has also signalled it is paying closer attention to the issue of substandard audit work abroad, and last week took action against Deloitte’s Chinese affiliate for...
...EY has hired crisis adviser David Gold to conduct a review of the failed attempt to split its audit and consulting businesses....
...It signals the onset of tighter scrutiny of the accounting and consulting sector and rising uncertainty over the future of Deloitte, PwC, KPMG and EY in China....
...Before becoming head of Deloitte’s US operations, Ucuzoglu ran the firm’s audit business in the US, and earlier in his career had served as an adviser to the chief accountant at the Securities and Exchange...
...Baker is managing principal at Broadmoor Consulting LLC and a senior fellow at the Richman Center for Business, Law & Public Policy at Columbia Business School and Columbia Law School....
...watchdog, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission, on misleading “greenwashing” claims by companies, and in action taken against Macquarie Bank, over alleged control failings, by the Australian Securities...
...The UK Health Security Agency, which took over test and trace in October, has signed at least four contracts with consultancies Deloitte and Accenture relating to the delivery of the programme, with the...
...It is the latest overseas takeover of a London-quoted tech company this year, after cyber security company Avast agreed an $8bn deal with NortonLifeLock....
...The SEC also accused it of “a series of federal securities law violations” that continued for several years after....
...“For years, Google has told the public and regulators that their Android Advertising ID was safe-enough,” said Zach Edwards, who runs Victory Medium, a technical consulting firm....
...But their seemingly grassroots efforts to defend mom-and-pop investors reportedly amounted to a vast corporate influence campaign engineered by FTI Consulting on behalf of the oil and gas industry....
...Goldman Sachs had its investor day Wednesday and, per usual, the deck some poor souls at a white-collar consulting firm put together was full of buzzwords such as ‘strategy’, ‘prosperity’ and, of course,...
...Yet early next year, the two are likely to find themselves the subject of a Securities and Exchange Commission vote that is designed to cut them down to size, but which they warn risks damaging corporate...
...Causeway Capital Management LLC, the LA hedge fund, has declared 4.88 per cent of Micro Focus....
...“This is a pure data play,” said Nilesh Chandra, a partner focused on healthcare strategy at PA Consulting, noting tech companies’ broader push into the health industry....
...The final unit is traditional consulting, which he says is a shrinking part of the business....
...Hedge fund manager Ken Griffin’s market-making business, Citadel Securities, has emerged as a powerful player on Wall Street with a determination to grab business from retreating banks....
...With tensions high, the Securities and Exchange Commission, the US markets regulator, is taking a look at the sector....
...The Bidens countersued Mr Lotito, accusing him of hiding company debts and falsely claiming he held securities licences....
...Philippe Ghanem is planning to step down from his role as chief executive of ADS Securities, an Abu Dhabi brokerage that had close ties to controversial German financier Lars Windhorst....
...The US has separately sanctioned 17 Saudi nationals, while US senator Elizabeth Warren has asked Boston Consulting Group, Booz Allen and Deloitte to detail all their paid consulting contracts with Saudi...
...She’s currently the chief executive and vice-chair of Kissinger Associates, a consulting firm. She is also on the board of Morgan Stanley....
...The industry’s global revenue climbed by a fifth to $2.7bn in 2017, according to Burton-Taylor International Consulting, part of the TP ICAP group....
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