All the headlines from our PwC Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jan 12 2023 // An increasing number of the UK’s financial services firms expect a rise in loan defaults in the next three months, the latest reminder of a gloomy economic outlook.A balance of 23% of respondents to the CBI/PwC...
Aug 23 2022 // An auditor at PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP sued his employer over a serious head injury he suffered during a work event that “encouraged excessive consumption of alcohol.”Michael Brockie alleges in London suit...
Jul 7 2022 // This edition of International People Moves details appointments at Chubb Global Markets and two brokers, Willis Towers Watson (WTW) and BMS.A summary of the new hires follows here. Chubb Global Markets Promotes Kirk to...
Nov 8 2021 // Pancoast to Head Ironshore’s E&S Primary CasualtyAdam Pancoast has been named to lead the excess and surplus Primary Casualty business of Ironshore, a Liberty Mutual company. As national manager, E&S...
Jul 2 2021 // These International People Moves include appointments at AXIS Re, Zurich Insurance Group and MS Amlin.Details of these new hires follows. AXIS Re, the reinsurance business segment of AXIS Capital Holdings Ltd., announced...
Jun 16 2021 // Accounting firm PwC said on Tuesday it would invest $12 billion over five years to create 100,000 new jobs aimed at helping its clients grapple with climate and diversity reporting and also in artificial intelligence, as...
May 19 2021 // This wrap-up of international People Moves details recent appointments at Ed Broking, Price Forbes, NFP, Guy Carpenter & Co., and Specialist Risk Group (SRG).A summary of these new hires follows here. Ed, the...
Apr 5 2021 // PricewaterhouseCoopers will give UK staff Friday afternoons off this summer and allow them to choose the amount of time they spend working from home as part of a post-pandemic shakeup of working patterns.The accountancy...
Dec 22 2020 // Insurance mergers and acquisitions (M&A) rebounded from COVID-19 challenges in the second half of 2020. The trend should continue well into 2021 as companies unload non-core assets and purse cost-effective advancements...
Jul 15 2020 // The dominant accounting firms must do a better job of challenging their clients in order to reach a satisfactory level of audit quality, the industry’s UK watchdog said.The so-called Big Four — KPMG, Deloitte,...
Apr 18 2019 // Facebook Inc. will seek to block disclosures from years’ worth of privacy reports it submitted to the U.S. Federal Trade Commission, according to filings in a lawsuit seeking the release of information in the...
Mar 19 2019 // A top U.S. banking regulator said on Friday that PricewaterhouseCoopers will pay $335 million to settle claims of “professional negligence,” after saying the auditor should have identified problems leading to...
Sep 27 2018 // Virtual claims technology firm Snapsheet has appointed insurance industry veteran Jamie Yoder as president.Yoder will lead activities across Snapsheet’s business lines, including virtual appraisals, fleet and rental...
Jun 19 2018 // The U.K. accounting watchdog is ramping up misconduct fines after being called useless and toothless by lawmakers irate at the failure of the accounting industry to prevent several high-profile corporate collapses.Over two...
May 7 2018 // Carriers say that cyber insurance is quite profitable for them at the moment, and a majority are also using reinsurance to manage their exposures, PwC found in a global survey of specialist writers.The consulting...
Apr 26 2018 // Carriers say that cyber insurance is quite profitable for them at the moment, and a majority are also using reinsurance to manage their exposures, PwC found in a global survey of specialist writers.The consulting...
Apr 4 2018 // This week’s Lowdown highlights the concerns of insurance CEOs, as reported by PwC in their 21st CEO Survey. According to the study, there remains a great deal of angst around technology but industry leaders joined in...
Apr 2 2018 // Ukraine’s largest bank, PrivatBank, said on Monday [April 1] it had filed a $3 billion lawsuit against the Ukrainian and Cypriot subsidiaries of international accounting firm PwC for alleged breaches during audits of...
Feb 26 2018 // Investors and chief executives say cyber attacks pose the greatest threat to businesses operating in the U.K., outweighing other material risks including populism, trade protectionism and over-regulation, according to...
Jan 19 2018 // American International Group (AIG) announced that Ed Barron will join the company as head of International Government Affairs, effective March 2018.In this new role, Barron will be responsible for developing a cohesive,...