PwC Weighs Halving of China Financial Services Audit Staff, Sources Say July 16, 2024 By Julie Zhu PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) is considering slashing up to half its financial services auditing staff in China, two people with knowledge of...
PwC Starts Mass China Layoffs After Losing Dozens of Clients July 10, 2024 By Bloomberg News PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP is cutting staff across its China operations, according to people familiar with the matter, after an exodus of...
Evergrande Liquidation Lawyers Probe PwC, Others to Recoup Creditor Losses: Sources June 14, 2024 By Xie Yu Lawyers appointed by the liquidators of China Evergrande Group 3333.HK are investigating some of the property developer’s service providers including...
China Weighs Record Fine for PwC Over Evergrande Audit Work May 30, 2024 By Bloomberg News China is poised to impose a record fine on PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP and suspend some of the global auditor’s local operations...
PwC Lost Five China Clients After Evergrande-Linked Probe May 29, 2024 By Xinyi Luo PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP lost five Chinese clients in May alone, adding to a list of more than a dozen firms its...
Clorox Audit Revealed Cybersecurity Flaws at Its Plants in 2020 March 27, 2024 By Ryan Gallagher and Leslie Patton A few years before a 2023 cyberattack disrupted manufacturing at one of the largest US producers of disinfectants ahead of...
Australia’s Westpac Banking Fined A$113M for Multiple Compliance Breaches April 22, 2022 An Australian court ordered Westpac Banking Corp. to pay A$113 million ($82.92 million) in penalties for multiple compliance failures across...
Dirty Money Worried Swedbank Compliance Officers but Bosses Kept Mum: Documents January 10, 2022 By Niclas Rolander, Aaron Eglitis and Anton Wilen In the summer of 2018, a senior anti money-laundering official at Swedbank AB appeared anxious as he read reports that...
Australia’s Westpac Bank to Pay $80.6M in Penalties, Admits Charging Dead People November 30, 2021 By Adam Haigh Westpac Banking Corp. agreed to pay A$113 million ($80.6 million) in penalties after the Australian regulator alleged the lender had...
Greensill Capital Collapse Exposes Less-Than-Adequate Technological Capabilities March 22, 2021 By Lucca de Paoli Lex Greensill promoted his business as the future of finance, talking up a technology superior to Wall Street rivals that...