European Financial Services Roundtable

KPMG is one among the Big Four. The latter designates the four largest financial audit groups worldwide that are Deloitte, Ernst & Young, PricewaterhouseCoopers and KPMG. In fact, the company's name stands for Klynveld Peat Marwick Goerdeler which is a merger between two auditor companies Klynveld Main Goerdeler and Peat Marwick. Actually KPMG is operating in 152 countries. Each national firm is an independent entity that is part of the universal KPMG network and so member of the KPMG…

Six Reasons Why You Should Invest in the BitBlissCoin ICO ICOs, or Initial Coin Offerings have become an integral part of the cryptocurrency industry. They are an innovative platform through which start ups raise capital. Since Ethereum’s successful crowd sale in 2013, ICOs are all the rage nowadays, eclipsing venture capital funding to become the most popular method of raising capital. According to a recently released Coindesk report, $327 million was raised through ICOs in 2017, compared to…

An evaluation of pan European pricing strategy For Royal Talens By Sougata Bose 2015 MBA Management Project Report Management Project submitted in accordance with rules of TIAS School for Business & Society In partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master in Business Administration awarded by TIAS School for Business & Society STATEMENT OF AUTHENTICITY I have read the University Regulations relating to…

Membership … Much More Than Ownership! You’re part of a credit union, wonderful! But what, exactly, does that mean? How will it affect your day to day life? What does credit union membership mean for your checking account, your auto loan and your financial future? You already know that being a credit union member is different than being the customer of a bank. You also know that it’s not just about semantics, members of credit unions OWN those credit unions. And that’s a whole different story…

“Revenue Recognition: A Perennial Problem” about the topic of revenue recognition being the regulators and standard-setter’s, as well as financial statement users and preparers major priority (p.28). De Mesa Graziano mentioned Colleen Cunningham, FEI president and CEO identification of revenue recognition being the 2005 third of top 10 financial reporting issues, Financial Accounting Standards Advisory Council (FASAC, 2004) member’s survey identification of revenue recognition as top priority of…

Article Citation The Impact of Dodd-Frank on Community Banks. (2016). Journal of Taxation & Regulation of Financial Institutions, 29(3), 49-51. I located this article by searching in the Bellevue University’s online library tool with the key words “Dodd-Frank” “Impacts” and then filtered for scholarly articles published in 2015-2016. Main Issue of Article Although the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2012, also known colloquially as “Dodd-Frank”, was written to…

What Replaces It? If Payday Lending Ends, What Replaces It? Payday lending has been attacked from many quarters because the industry is an easy target in today's media-savvy, soundbite culture. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, or CFPB, has been tasked with recommending financial reforms, and despite limits to its powers that include not being empowered to set interest caps on lending rates, the agency has arbitrarily recommended a 36 APR limit. Knowledgeable experts in…

Please consider this my formal application for the position of Director of the Royal Canadian Mint. I am an internationally successful and digitally literate business leader and lawyer. I have been an officer, director, and advisor to private businesses and/or public companies in Canada, the United States, England, and Australia. I am a member of the Institute of Corporate Directors as well as the American Bar Association Business Section, Cyber Law and Governance Committees. I have the…

BB&T Corporation (Branch Banking & Trust) is one of the largest financial services holding companies in the U.S. with $184.7 billion in assets and market capitalization of $28.9 billion, as of March 31, 2014. BB&T, Based in Winston-Salem, N.C., operates 1,824 financial centers in 12 states and offers a full range of consumer and commercial banking, securities brokerage, asset management, mortgage, and insurance products and services (BBT.com, 2015). We will discuss the ethical dilemma within…

Installment Loans Come Under Fire by the CFPB Regulatory Guns The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, which is usually referred to as the CFPB, has consistently cut through traditional checks and balances to expedite financial reform in the wake of 2008's mortgage and banking crisis. The bureau has used questionable techniques and astonishing speed in its investigations against the payday loan industry and other financial institutions such as banks. After making a series of controversial…