Tagged: pwc

June 12, 2020 @ 7:03 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The Singapore Fintech Association (SFA), a cross-industry non-profit initiative that’s focused on supporting collaboration between all market participants and stakeholders in the financial technology industry, has introduced a digital self-assessment framework to improve working relationships between companies. According to the association, the framework should expedite… Read More

June 1, 2020 @ 1:28 am By Omar Faridi  |  

There are now 278 Fintech firms in Italy, which  is 49 more than when Big Four auditing firm, PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), released its previous report on the financial technology sector in the European nation. PwC’s extensive 96-page report reveals that Italy now has an emerging real… Read More

May 25, 2020 @ 12:59 am By Omar Faridi  |  

iCONECT CA Inc., a privately-held firm focused on legal technology (Legaltech) and eDiscovery, has teamed up with Big Four auditing firm PwC’s Canada division. PricewaterhouseCoopers has chosen the iCONECT document eDiscovery platform, in order to improve its ability to take care of legal, privacy, regulatory,… Read More

May 23, 2020 @ 1:18 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Fintech firm Credit Kudos, the “challenger credit bureau,” has teamed up with Big Four auditing firm PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), in order to launch a digital banking “ecosystem sandbox.” Credit Kudos is regulated by the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA). It aims to provide a different and… Read More

May 12, 2020 @ 7:45 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Henri Arslanian, the global leader for PricewaterhouseCoopers‘ (PwC) cryptocurrency and blockchain-related projects, shared the auditing firm’s 2nd Annual PwC-Elwood Crypto Hedge Fund Report on May 11, 2020. Arslanian summarized the key findings from the report as follows. The median crypto asset hedge fund returned +30%… Read More

April 29, 2020 @ 8:43 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The Coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak has created major social-economic challenges for individuals and businesses throughout the world. The pandemic has led to an increase in the use of Fintech-focused services, which has helped some companies generate more revenue during these difficult times. However, the crisis has… Read More

April 7, 2020 @ 10:30 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Big Four auditing firm Pricewaterhousecoopers (PwC) reports that the majority of global digital asset fundraising and mergers and acquisitions (M&A) deals last year took place outside of the United States for the very first time. As noted in PwC’s report (released on April 6, 2020),… Read More

January 23, 2020 @ 8:29 am By JD Alois  |  

Digital asset primary issuance platform Tokeny has announced a new partnership with PwC. Tokeny is a Luxembourg based Fintech that enables companies, banks, funds, real estate assets and more to tokenize these securities using blockchain technology. Tokeny enables institutional grade, issuance, transfer and servicing management… Read More

January 13, 2020 @ 9:42 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The blockchain-enabled smart contract auditing solution developers at ChainSecurity have teamed up with the Switzerland-based division of Big Four auditing company PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), in order to streamline the services the multinational auditor provides. According to statements shared with Cointelegraph, a PwC representative confirmed that no… Read More

December 25, 2019 @ 9:28 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Malaysia now appears to be a promising market for virtual or challenger banks, according to Big Four auditing firm PricewaterhouseCoopers’ (PwC) Malaysia division. The country’s reserve bank is planning to introduce its virtual or digital banking licensing guidelines for industry consultation. In a recent interview,… Read More

December 23, 2019 @ 11:51 am By JD Alois  |  

The Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) has published a report entitled “Reshaping Banking with Artificial Intelligence.” The Report is part of a series of publications on applying AI technology, including Robo-advisors, to the banking industry. Hong Kong has emerged as a top Asian Fintech hub… Read More

December 11, 2019 @ 7:15 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Fintech companies in Vietnam acquired $410 million, or 36% of the total global capital invested into Southeast Asia’s economies between January and September of this year, which is right behind Singapore. Vietnam’s market share of regional VC funding allocated to Fintech-related projects increased from only… Read More

November 14, 2019 @ 10:58 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The Luxembourg House of Financial Technology (LHoFT), a dedicated Fintech center focused on promoting the development of innovative financial services, and the Centre for Finance, Technology and Entrepreneurship (CFTE) are establishing the Luxembourg Academy of Digital Finance. According to a release shared with CrowdFund Insider,… Read More

October 2, 2019 @ 7:00 pm By JD Alois  |  

The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) and the Association of Banks in Singapore (ABS) have revealed the 40 finalists have been shortlisted for the Fintech Awards to be presented at this year’s Singapore FinTech Festival x Singapore Week of Innovation and Technology (SFF x SWITCH)…. Read More

September 13, 2019 @ 1:39 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The ASEAN Financial Innovation Network (AFIN) committed to two memorandums of understanding (MOUs) on September 11, 2019, with Bridge+ and “Big Four” auditing firm PricewaterhouseCoopers’ (PwC) Singapore branch. Managing director of AFIN Manish Diwaan noted: “AFIN is delighted that industry leaders are coming together to… Read More

September 13, 2019 @ 2:15 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The majority of fundraising events and mergers and acquisitions (M&A) deals in the crypto asset sector are being finalized in Asian and European markets, overtaking the once-dominant role of the Americas, according to a recent report from “Big Four” professional services company PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC). Released… Read More

August 6, 2019 @ 10:24 am By JD Alois  |  

Blockchain focused investor Crypto Valley Venture Capital (CV VC), in partnership with PwC’s Strategy& and IT partner inacta, has published a report claiming that the 50 largest companies in Crypto Valley, located in Switzerland, have risen in valuation from $20 billion at the end of… Read More

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