The digital revolution has spawned ‘challenger’ banks that operate entirely online, with no high street presence. That phenomenon has taken off in Europe — particularly the UK — but over in Hong Kong, one of the world’s key financial hubs, the digital-only push is coming to the insurance industry. Bowtie, a Hong Kong-based digital insurer, just […]
View More Bowtie raises $30M to bring the digital insurance model to Hong KongCategory: PWC
PwC staves off disruption with immersive emerging tech training
The big accounting firms are under pressure from digital disruption just like every industry these days, but PwC is trying a proactive approach with a digital accelerator program designed to train employees for the next generation of jobs. To do this, PwC is not just providing some additional training resources and calling it a day. […]
View More PwC staves off disruption with immersive emerging tech trainingWith Cred partnership, PwC wants to help make stablecoins legit
Audit giant PwC is the latest mainstream firm to show new interest in digital currencies. This week it announced a partnership with decentralized lending platform Cred to advise on better standards for stablecoins. While details of the partnership are light, Cred is working on its own stablecoin tied to the U.S. dollar, and is hoping to avoid […]
View More With Cred partnership, PwC wants to help make stablecoins legitU.S. podcast ad revenues hit record $314 million in 2017
The U.S. podcasting industry had a record year in 2017, reaching $314 million in revenue – a figure that’s up 86 percent from the $169 million in 2016, according to new study out this morning from the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) and jointly conducted by IAB and PwC U.S. The firms are also estimating podcast revenue […]
View More U.S. podcast ad revenues hit record $314 million in 2017