July 11, 2019 @ 10:07 am By JD Alois  |  

PwC and the Crypto Valley Association have recently published an “ICO/STO Report” covering the first five months of 2019. According to the report, since the beginning of the year 250 token offerings have raised $3.3 billion. The largest funding rounds came from Bitfinex at $1… Read More

June 21, 2019 @ 8:44 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

PwC announced on Thursday the launch of its solution, Halo, for cryptocurrency auditing. According to PwC the Halo solution can provide independent, substantive evidence of the “private key and public address pairing.” Halo can also securely interrogate the blockchain to independently and reliably gather corroborating… Read More

March 17, 2019 @ 2:25 pm By Cali Haan  |  

Alex de Vries, Digiconomist.net founder and a blockchain specialist at PwC’s Experience Centre since 2015, has produced an important report on the Bitcoin network’s extreme energy consumption and waste production, which far exceed that generated by regular banking. De Vries conclusion that Bitcoin should “follow… Read More

March 6, 2019 @ 1:06 pm By Cali Haan  |  

In its latest “Strategic Alliance Bulletin,” auditing firm PwC (formerly-known-as PricewaterhouseCoopers) has countered the sanguine narratives in crypto by stating unequivocally: “Cryptocurrency has increasingly been associated with serving criminal and nefarious purposes, rather than supporting the decentralisation of ‘traditional’ currency.” That said, the company does… Read More

March 26, 2018 @ 9:27 am By JD Alois  |  

The Request Network Foundation has formed a partnership with the PwC France and Francophone Africa Blockchain Lab. According to the Request Network, this partnership will shape and develop the future of professional services, taking a leading role in offering solutions to clients’ needs of on-boarding… Read More

December 26, 2017 @ 9:13 am By Julien Courbe  |  

It would be nice if digital transformation were something that firms could buy, like Software-as-a-Service (SaaS). Unfortunately, there’s no one size fits all solution. What makes sense for one firm could be exactly wrong approach for another. But as we’re predicting that a lot of… Read More

November 9, 2017 @ 10:30 am By JD Alois  |  

Uniti, a Swedish electric car company that is in the midst of an investment crowdfunding round, has announced the creation of a new cryptocurrency and forthcoming Initial Coin Offering (ICO). Uniti states it is in the midst of  launching the “world’s first Certified Green” ICO. The… Read More

September 20, 2017 @ 10:52 am By JD Alois  |  

There are more than a few investment crowdfunding offers that are based only on a photo shop concept paired with outlandish valuations. Some of these will successfully raise money but investors are pretty much guaranteed to be aggressively diluted – if the company moves beyond… Read More

August 9, 2017 @ 3:58 pm By JD Alois  |  

Last month PwC and the Crowdfunding Center partnered on a report regarding women and crowdfunding. Referencing data collected by the Crowdfunding Center that analyzed 450,000 rewards based crowdfunding campaigns, the document entitled “Women Unbound: Crowdfunding – Unleashing Female Entrepreneurial Potential,” showed that women-led campaigns reached their… Read More

July 29, 2017 @ 9:26 am By Therese Torris  |  

French firms have formed an association to foster the sustainable growth of the cryptocurrency investment sector and weigh in on its governance. Among other things, they hope to build on progressive regulations such as the French decree that allowed crowdlending securities called minibons to be… Read More

July 29, 2017 @ 8:43 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Startupbootcamp FinTech Mumbai announced this week it has collaborated with PwC for a new India fintech report that revealed that the “open innovative paradigm” is increasingly being adopted by many traditional institutions. “The FinTech ecosystem in India has evolved significantly since its emergence and has… Read More

July 14, 2017 @ 9:51 am By JD Alois  |  

PwC has recently published a report on the status of Fintech in China, which happens to be the largest Fintech market in the world. This week, PwC Chairman and CEO of Greater China Raymund Chao presented the research in Hong Kong to the LendIt China… Read More

July 14, 2017 @ 8:21 am By Timothy Li  |  

Hong Kong AMTD-LendIt Conference officially kicked off today in one of the most metropolitan cities in the world, Hong Kong, China. This town, considered as one of the busiest financial centers of the world is now on the brink of another step in this city’s… Read More

July 12, 2017 @ 12:16 pm By JD Alois  |  

PwC and the Crowdfunding Center have published a joint report based on two years of data on seed (rewards) based crowdfunding from 9 different platforms. According to the report, campaigns led by women reach their target more often than crowdfunding campaigns led by men. The… Read More

June 28, 2017 @ 5:42 am By JD Alois  |  

Yesterday there was a well attended event in Hong Kong to announce the launch of the FinTech Association of Hong Kong (FTAHK). The FTAHK is an independent, not-for-profit, member-driven organisation that is now the voice of the Fintech community in Hong Kong. Members range from Fintech… Read More

June 25, 2017 @ 2:44 pm By Barry James  |  

As impact goes it doesn’t get much bigger. Crowdfunding has been much misunderstood and, let’s be honest, has underperformed our best expectations. It was supposed to “democratise finance” – and much more. Much focus has been on equity, regulation and the JOBS Act. The friction… Read More

April 20, 2017 @ 3:43 am By Erin Hobey  |  

Japanese investment bank Nomura has set up a fintech program in India, inviting entrepreneurs in Mumbai to build new tools for capital markets. The Voyager partnership aims to give Indian fintech specialists access to Nomura’s resources at the Mumbai innovation centre, enabling them to test their ideas using… Read More

April 7, 2017 @ 8:54 am By Therese Torris  |  

At the EXEC FinTech 2017 in Berlin, Jörg Sandrock, a Partner and Managing Director of Strategy& Financial Services Germany at global business consultancy PwC presented the results of PwC’s newly released FinTech Report titled “Redrawing the lines: FinTech’s growing influence on Financial Services.” Based on… Read More

March 13, 2017 @ 8:27 am By JD Alois  |  

A new report by the Startupbootcamp FinTech London program and PwC states that Fintech startups are increasingly focusing on building artificial intelligence and its potential to solve customer problems. The report says there has been a change in culture over the past year in the Fintech… Read More

March 10, 2017 @ 7:55 am By JD Alois  |  

PwC’s Accelerator has published the first edition of their SME Equity Financing Atlas.  According to their data, equity investments in SMEs have been growing steadily over the last years. The main drivers are the accumulation of capital in investor’s hand, new technologies and low-interest rates…. Read More