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U.K. Regulator Fines Big Four, Puts KPMG Under Increased Scrutiny
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 ...
Europe’s Fledgling Cyber Insurance Market Stands to Gain From New Privacy Rules
Data privacy rules coming into force this week are giving Europe's fledgling cyber insurance market a boost as they make companies more aware of the risks caused by customer information breaches. ...
Most Insurers Envision at Least One Acquisition in 2017: KPMG Survey
A large majority of insurers plan to pursue acquisitions or divestitures through 2017, according to a new KPMG report, indicating that late-2015 and 2016 deal-making wasn't a fluke. About 84 percent ...
Will GoFundMe Disrupt the Insurance Industry?
Insurers eyeing disruption from the newest cohort of peer-to-peer insurers, including names like Lemonade and Friendsurance, may have be overlooking the biggest potential disrupters of them ...
InsurTech Momentum Builds as VC Investments Top $1B for 2016
Even though venture capital investments in VC-backed fintech companies fell more than 50 percent globally during the second quarter of 2016, interest in InsurTech continues to pick up steam, a new ...
With Insurance Industry Transformation, the Struggle Is Real: KPMG
The talk is out there: Insurance industry leaders have often spoken of transforming operations to embrace disruptive advances including big data, other new technology and related customer service ...
Today’s CFO: What It Takes to Lead Finance Teams
What makes a good chief financial officer? The answer varies depending on whether you ask leaders of finance themselves, the chief executive officers of their companies or executive recruiters. And ...
Co-Pilots in the C-Suite: How CEOs View CFOs
Roughly two-thirds of insurance industry chief executive officers polled believe the role of their top financial officer will grow in significance over the next three years—beyond any other C-level ...