Tagged: kpmg

October 15, 2015 @ 9:30 am By JD Alois  |  

The Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance at Cambridge Judge Business School and the Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation at Chicago Booth School of Business are jointly launching the 2015 Americas Alternative Finance Benchmarking Survey. This survey will be the first comprehensive and empirical assessment… Read More

September 17, 2015 @ 11:46 am By Erin Hobey  |  

Launched with the collaboration of Enterprise Ireland, the IDA and the Department of Finance, the  Fintech and Payments Association of Ireland brings together the members of extant not-for-profit organizations, Payments Ireland and Fintech Ireland Meet Up Group.  Payments Ireland was established by Colm Lyon who founded of Realex… Read More

September 17, 2015 @ 2:00 am By Erin Hobey  |  

Launched in June, InvestDen, an innovative equity and debt crowdfunding platform operating in the UK, and KPMG, one of the leading global professional services firms, today announced their new alliance to support UK business, particularly KPMG’s support for UK SMEs. “This alliance is important because it provides companies raising… Read More

August 31, 2015 @ 8:49 am By JD Alois  |  

Global consulting group KPMG has partnered up with Matchi, a FinTech matchmaking platform that pairs banks, insurance companies with FinTech startups. KPMG is said to work globally with clients to help them manage the fast-changing financial landscape as services move from bricks & mortar to… Read More

August 4, 2015 @ 12:58 pm By Erin Hobey  |  

KPMG has linked with peer-to-peer business lender MarketInvoice, a partnership that will enable customers of KPMG’s Small Business Accounting Service to access MarketInvoice finance directly through their accounting software and will also include a business education program incorporating regional events, webinars, e-books and online ‘accountancy clinics’… Read More

July 23, 2015 @ 11:55 am By JD Alois  |  

KPMG and CB Insights have released a quarterly report on global VC funding and according to their data VC backed companies are booming.  In Q2 alone over $32 billion went toward 1819 deals.  This pushed VC funding globally to almost $60 billion. If you compare… Read More

December 18, 2014 @ 9:01 am By JD Alois  |  

Crowdfunding platforms including Peer to Peer lenders have swarmed KPMG’s list of Fintech Innovators for 2014. The annual list compiled by global accounting and consultancy group KPMG includes a vast group of new funding platforms including crowdfunding and peer to peer lenders. Equity crowdfunding platforms… Read More

September 6, 2014 @ 5:34 pm By JD Alois  |  

Global tax and advisory firm KPMG recently commented on the crowdfunding industry and how traditional banks are sizing up the new, innovative form of finance. As we all know the finance industry is absolutely enormous.  Crowdfunding, along with peer to peer lending, is still quite… Read More

December 23, 2013 @ 10:04 am By JD Alois  |  

Global consulting firm KPMG, along with international law firm Stibbe, have produced a report for the Flemish government (in Flemish) in Belgium.  The report was originally published in August but is just recently being shared publicly.  The report is a high level review as to how… Read More

September 20, 2013 @ 8:53 am By JD Alois  |  

Crowdsourcing Week has scheduled a one day gathering to be held in London on October 3, 2013.  The event targets management executives and business owners to introduce crowdsourcing practices which will help grow the long term viability of their organizations. The agenda currently includes a… Read More

August 31, 2013 @ 8:10 am By JD Alois  |  

Earlier this year there was a gathering of crowdfunding minds in the UK where the future of crowdfunding was discussed.  This esteemed group included representatives from sites like Seedrs, Crowdcube, Banktothefuture plus other industry observers / participants. The event was a partnership between consulting group… Read More

May 23, 2013 @ 10:08 pm By JD Alois  |  

A global competition to bring a high-growth technology company to London with £1 million of investment has been launched today at London’s Digital Shoreditch 2013 festival. The Million Pound Startup aims to showcase London as a prime location for building global digital and technology businesses…. Read More