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AUGUST 14, 2020

million in combined funding, B2B FinTechs remain resilient in today’s current market. Real-time cross-border B2B payment FinTech Vitesse has announced $8.3 Accounting automation startup CANDIS secured about $14.2 million in Series A funding. Lending-as-a-service technology company Blend has secured a nearly $1.7

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DECEMBER 19, 2018

’s Big Four accountancy firms — KPMG , PwC , EY and Deloitte — have escaped a forced breakup from the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), The Guardia n reported on Tuesday (Dec. ” “Most people will never read an auditor’s opinion on a company’s accounts,” he said.

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APRIL 3, 2019

may be changing course in its efforts to break up the Big Four accountancy firms after the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) decided against such action late last year. Reports in Bloomberg on Monday (April 1) said a U.K. audits for large businesses. .” ” The committee’s conclusion drew expected criticism.

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JULY 6, 2020

The Big Four accounting firms will have to put their United Kingdom auditing and consulting practices in separate business units by 2024, but may keep them within the same parent companies, under regulations announced today by the Financial Reporting Council. The measures by the U.K.’s

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DECEMBER 27, 2018

Open banking, bank APIs and data sharing flourished in 2018, with small business and corporate financial services squarely in the path of this financial services trend as banks and FinTechs consider new ways to enhance business payments, accounting, treasury and financial management. Firstly, regulators driving Open Banking or Open Data (e.g.

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JUNE 6, 2019

Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) earlier this year that the Big Four auditors separate their auditing and consulting operations and conduct audits in conjunction with smaller auditing companies. But the Big Four auditing firms have shied away from accepting the CMA’s recommendation for a breakup. ”

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NOVEMBER 13, 2018

Parliament will commence an inquiry into the nation’s corporate auditing market, which is currently dominated by the Big Four accounting firms Deloitte, PwC, EY and KPMG, adding new pressure on an industry already being probed by other policymakers. Reports in Reuters on Sunday (November 11) said the U.K.

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