Commenting on the Audit Commission’s announcement in respect of the award of audit contracts for five years from the 2012/13 financial year, Mike McDonagh, Head of Public Sector Audit at KPMG, said: “KPMG is delighted to have won three audit contracts with the Audit Commission. We have a strong track record of delivering public sector [...]
AIG and Interbrand recognized for outstanding work with Deloitte Deloitte’s innovation with American International Group, Inc. (AIG) in the Transaction/Event-Driven category and Interbrand in the Corporate Social Responsibility category were winners at the inaugural 2012 Association of Management Consulting Firms (AMCF) awards, which were presented at the University Club in New York on Thursday evening, [...]
Concerns about data security and protection have intensified with recent reports of data breaches to major companies within the UK and abroad. There have been apprehensions of late that any business can be the next target, with Visa, Mastercard, Google, the CIA, the NHS, Sony and Citibank having been a few of the organisations to [...]
KPMG has been named ‘Best Islamic Assurance and Advisory Services Provider’ in the 2012 Euromoney Islamic finance awards. This marks the fifth consecutive year KPMG has taken the top prize, which is a record in the advisory category. Now in their tenth year, the awards are widely regarded as the benchmark awards for the global [...]
In light of the alarming security threats befalling business enterprises nowadays, many boards of directors in some high-profile companies are asking their executive teams about the possibility that they might be the next target. This was discussed in Deloitte’s “Risk Intelligent governance in the age of cyber threats: What you don’t know could hurt you,”, [...]
PwC has been given a top international award for its innovative global leadership development programme – Genesis Park. PwC was selected a 2012 Bersin & Associates Learning Leader. Genesis Park is aimed at turning today’s top performers into tomorrow’s global business leaders, by helping participants to develop the skills and strengths needed to meet the [...]
Security firm Trusteer has spotted a “concerning development” in some new Ice IX configurations that target online banking customers in the UK and US. Ice IX is a modified variant of the ZeuS financial malware platform that captures information on telephone accounts belonging to the victims, allowing attackers to divert calls from the bank intended [...]
The total amount of fraud in 2011 topped £3.5 billion – a record year – according to KPMG’s Fraud Barometer, as Britons across the country continue to struggle with tough economic conditions. £2.5 billion worth of fraud was recorded during the second half of the year – including five large fraud cases of more than [...]
This week the 2011 mergermarket European M&A league tables confirmed Ernst & Young as the number one provider of accountancy advice on M&A transactions across Europe during 2011. In a year that saw M&A activity fluctuate significantly, Ernst & Young advised on 297 M&A transactions across Europe, with an aggregated value of almost $68billion; representing [...]
For the sixth consecutive year, Deloitte has been named one of Human Rights Campaign’s (HRC) “Best Places to Work,” earning a perfect 100 percent rating on HRC’s Corporate Equality Index (CEI). The CEI measures and analyzes inclusion initiatives, company benefits, and support made available for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) personnel and the wider [...]
For the eighth consecutive year, PwC US has been named one of FORTUNE’s “100 Best Companies to Work For”. PwC ranks number 48 overall and 11 among large companies on this year’s list, the 15th annual installment. This represents a significant jump from 73 overall last year. “We are truly proud and humbled not only [...]
The Federal Bureau of Investigation has warned that high detection accuracy of fraudulent transactions alone does not help in preventing cybercrime, following the discovery of Zeus variant, Gameover. According to security firm Trusteer, this attack can circumvent post transaction fraud prevention measures, citing the FBI’s findings saying that this campaign purports “to be legitimate e-mails [...]
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The emerging alliance between car manufacturers and IT companies to turn cars into internet gateways poses a potential threat to the automotive industry, according to McAfee’s chief technology officer. “With Ericsson forecasting 50 billion IP-connected devices by 2020, up from 1 billion just a year ago, KPMG’s report into connected cars come as no surprise. [...]
PwcUS has been positioned by Gartner, Inc. in the Leaders quadrant of the 2011 “Magic Quadrant for Financial Management Consulting Services” report. Gartner’s Magic Quadrant report evaluates major players in the business and technology industries upon two criteria: completeness of vision and ability to execute. According to the report, those positioned in the Leaders quadrant [...]
Experts from security firm and Norton-dealer, Symantec, has found a new fraudulent application that hit the Android marketplace called Android.Steek, which capitalizes on popular game titles and purporting as these games. Symantec said the malicious applications are published under the name “Stevens Creek Software”, whose infection length has reached nearly 3,500,000 bytes. The security firm [...]
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KPMG Europe LLP (‘ELLP’), the professional services firm providing audit, tax and advisory services, reported that combined turnover grew by 13 percent to reach €4,589 million in the year to 30 September, 2011 (2010: €4,065 million). On a like-for-like, pro-forma basis and at constant exchange rates, revenues were up 5 percent to €4,718 million (2010: [...]
A team of hackers has been confirmed to be behind the malware programs that belong to the family of Stuxnet and Duqu Trojans, according to experts from Kaspersky Lab who assume that ” a single platform was used, which is flexibly adaptable to specific targets.” Kaspersky said this platform appeared to have been in existence [...]
Users who have recently received Wi-Fi routers as gifts last Christmas might want to think twice before enabling the encryption built in most commercial devices as security researchers discovered a barely noticeable vulnerability in such a practice. In a technology called the “Wi-Fi Protected Setup” (WPS) initially intended by the wireless industry to ease the [...]
