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March 18, 2024

PwC to reverse controversial US tax split

...“Having the tax business connected to assurance and advisory is critical, but structurally I don’t need those businesses to be smashed together for that to happen.”...

April 18, 2024

FT Live

Bank of the Year Awards 2024

Recognising the best in banking globally

Singapore Exchange Ltd

Singapore battles to revive struggling stock market

...But fixing poor disclosure practices, or strengthening corporate governance to give investors more assurance, remain the broader issues for us,” the hedge fund executive added....

May 6, 2024

EY

German watchdog finds EY’s Wirecard audits grossly negligent

...A review on behalf of the German parliament concluded in 2021 that EY had failed to spot signs of fraud risk, did not follow professional guidelines and relied on verbal assurances from executives on several...

April 16, 2024

COP28

UK asked to obtain assurances from UAE over right to protest at COP28

...Pressure is mounting on the UK government to obtain assurances from the United Arab Emirates that Britons who stage protests in Dubai around the COP28 UN climate summit this autumn will not face arrest....

August 11, 2023

OnlyFans

Ofcom investigates OnlyFans over children’s access to adult content

...The watchdog has been gathering details from the leading companies, including TikTok, Snapchat, Twitch and OnlyFans since 2021....

May 1, 2024

FT Live

Financial Adviser Service Awards 2024

Who gives you 5 star service?

Julian Assange

Julian Assange granted reprieve in appeal against US extradition

...If the US does not provide the requested assurances, the court will grant him a full appeal....

March 26, 2024

Inside BusinessStephen Foley

Why don’t auditors find fraud?

...Audit firms argue that company executives are responsible for the accuracy of financial statements and that the role of an auditor role is only to provide reasonable assurance — not a guarantee — that a...

May 6, 2024

Oliver Ralph

Let’s hear it for the FTSE 100’s magnificently unglamorous seven

...At quality assurance group Intertek, turnover has grown from £471mn to £3.3bn. They will also have benefited from share buying by index funds....

April 15, 2024

Moral Money

Corporate emissions: don’t just take their word for it Premium

...But is it actually serving to lower companies’ emissions? Yes, according to new research — but only among companies that subject their climate reports to third-party assurance....

February 23, 2024

Pension automatic enrolment

Report exposes problems plaguing pension dashboards

...“However, it did not have assurance at the outset that MaPS — which was formed in October 2018 — had the capacity and capability to deliver a major digital programme such as the PDP,” said the report....

May 10, 2024

BT Group Plc

BT installs McKinsey partner to head new strategy unit

...The division will bring together BT’s corporate strategy and development team and the group transformation and assurance team, according to the email. McKinsey declined to comment....

April 21, 2024

ExplainerNorthern Ireland

What is the new Northern Ireland deal and how will it work?

...The DUP argued that this hybrid arrangement diminished Northern Ireland’s place in the United Kingdom by creating red tape for companies in Great Britain that send goods to Northern Ireland, deterring them...

January 31, 2024

The Big Read

How deep are the problems at St James’s Place?

...Assurance Group....

May 7, 2024

John Lee

A year of takeovers can fuel my portfolio

...Many of these names are long gone: Delcam, Fenner, Pifco, Refuge Assurance, Trafford Park Estates, Wintrust — and Air Partner being the most recent a couple of years ago....

March 20, 2024

FT Live

Diversity in Finance Awards 2024

Celebrating diversity, inclusion and equality in the financial services sector.

Jacob Rothschild

Jacob Rothschild, British financier, dies aged 87

...Rothschild also co-founded J Rothschild Assurance Group — now known as wealth manager St James’s Place — alongside Sir Mark Weinberg and Mike Wilson in 1991....

February 26, 2024

Nuclear energy

UK nuclear watchdog takes Sellafield operator to court over alleged IT breaches

...The company added that it had a “high degree of confidence that no such malware exists on our system”....

March 28, 2024

ReviewFilm

Baltimore — mesmerising tale of heiress turned terrorist with Imogen Poots

...It is surely her sense of upper-class superiority (Dugdale was a former debutante) that gives this privileged outsider the self-assurance to assume command of an IRA operation, to the bemusement and scepticism...

March 21, 2024

Brexit

Food industry warns ‘Not for EU’ labelling will deter investment in UK

...to Northern Ireland....

February 22, 2024

UK labour disputes

UK train drivers vote for further round of strikes

...Aslef said more than 98 per cent of tube train drivers in the union had voted to strike over “London Underground’s failure to give assurances that changes to our members’ terms and conditions will not be...

March 20, 2024

Walt Disney Co

Nelson Peltz backed for seat on Disney board by proxy adviser ISS

...And Peltz could also provide “assurance to other investors that the board is properly engaged this time around”....

March 21, 2024

Inside BusinessPeggy Hollinger

Why Boeing chief’s $33mn pay is hard to justify

...Yet despite repeated assurances that Boeing was addressing the bad old habit of focusing on financial returns at the expense of engineering expertise, a close reading of a proxy statement published this...

April 17, 2024

Your QuestionsLucy Warwick-Ching

Can I claim a bigger stake in the family business than I have inherited?

...In some circumstances, where a promise or assurance has been made but not carried out, the court has the power to step in to rectify the situation under what is known as proprietary estoppel....

May 9, 2024

UK energy

UK cannot prove sustainability of biomass power plants, warns watchdog

...Hillier called on the government to “urgently review its assurance arrangements, so it knows that the billions of pounds of customer and taxpayer-funded support are helping the UK meet its climate target...

January 24, 2024

Artificial intelligence

EY claims success in using AI to find audit frauds

...According to Kath Barrow, EY’s UK and Ireland assurance managing partner, the new system detected suspicious activity at two of the first 10 companies checked....

December 3, 2023

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