| 28/05/2012 | The future of the high street bank is under the spotlight once again, as customers voice deep levels of dissatisfaction with the service they receive |
| 28/05/2012 | The Government has revealed the names of the 12 towns that have secured a share of £1.2million funding in the first round of the Portas Pilots scheme |
| 28/05/2012 | KPMG have appointed Charlie Patrick as their new head of Anti-Bribery and Corruption |
| 24/05/2012 | Richard Threlfall, UK Head of Building, Infrastructure and Construction comments on the “Growth Factory”, a report which was published today and explores 30 ideas to re-balance our economy and create growth: |
| 24/05/2012 | Following today’s publication of ‘The Growth Factory’, a report exploring ways to rebalance the economy and backed by some high profile MPs, Anna Marie Detert, director in KPMG’s People and Change advisory team, comments: |
| 24/05/2012 | Commenting on today’s consultation document on the taxation of controlling persons issued by HMRC and HM Treasury, tax partner and head of employment tax for KPMG in the UK, Jayne Vaughan said: |
| 24/05/2012 | John Leech, UK head of automotive at KPMG, comments on ‘The Growth Factory’ proposal; a report which was published today and explores 30 ideas to re-balance our economy and create growth:
|
| 23/05/2012 | Specialists at KPMG have warned that more than 75% of businesses they have spoken with are failing to consider the full repercussions of serious disruption in the Eurozone. |
| 23/05/2012 | Data, published today by KPMG’s Payments Team, reveals that corporate customers are adding their voice to calls for more advanced mobile payments solutions. |
| 23/05/2012 | Taxpayers in the Franked Investment income (“FII”) Group Litigation today won in the UK Supreme Court in the latest round of this long-running litigation. |
| 22/05/2012 | KPMG Chief Economist, Andrew Smith comments on the Office of National Statistics’ April 2012 Consumer Price Indices |
| 22/05/2012 | The post-2008 influx of institutional money into hedge funds has resulted in a marked increase in the global industry’s operational sophistication and transparency to investors, according to a new report by KPMG |
| 21/05/2012 | Commenting on the publication, earlier today, of the Government’s NHS Information Strategy, Andrew Hine, partner and UK head of public healthcare at KPMG, welcomes the decision to offer many healthcare services online. |
| 18/05/2012 | Office workers at KPMG today became martial arts world record setters, in the largest ever synchronised taekwondo routine which took place simultaneously today at eleven locations around the country, with over 800 people taking part. |
| 17/05/2012 | UK manufacturing continues to buck the economic trend as the SMMT figures for April show that there were 11.8 % more cars built in the UK so far this year than in the same period last year |
| 16/05/2012 | Reacting to the news, today, that unemployment has fallen by 45,000 between January and March, Bernard Brown, Partner and Head of Business Services at KPMG, says |
| 16/05/2012 | Commenting on the roundtable meeting today, hosted by Norman Lamb MP as part of the ongoing review of ‘pre-pack’ administrations, Richard Fleming, UK Head of Restructuring at KPMG |
| 16/05/2012 | Following publication of The National Fraud Initiative’s 2012 report, earlier today, Alan Downey, partner and head of public sector at KPMG comments on the measures needed to reduce public sector fraud. |
| 14/05/2012 | Claudio Altini, director within KPMG’s shared services and outsourcing advisory practice, suggested that the desire to reduce costs or shrink headcount is no longer the driving force behind business decisions to outsource key operations |
| 14/05/2012 | KPMG announces that audit partner Chris Hearld is its new office senior partner in Leeds. |
| 14/05/2012 | KPMG LLP announces that it has awarded BPP Professional Education the contract to deliver the firm’s national ACA training programme, commencing in autumn 2013 |
| 14/05/2012 | In the wake of research published at the RCN Congress, Andrew Hine, partner and UK head of public healthcare at KPMG, comments on the need to bring technology to the heart of community healthcare to improve patient care and support the needs of nurses. |
| 11/05/2012 | Following the election of Simon Collins to succeed John Griffith-Jones as UK Chairman and Senior Partner from 1 October, KPMG in the UK today announces its new leadership team. |
| 10/05/2012 | Commenting on today’s decision from the Bank of England Monetary Policy Committee to maintain the Bank Rate at 0.5% and to maintain the asset purchase programme at £325 billion, KPMG Chief Economist, Andrew Smith, said |
| 09/05/2012 | The Recruitment and Employment Confederation (REC) and KPMG Report on Jobs – published today – provides the most comprehensive guide to the UK labour market, drawing on original survey data provided by recruitment consultancies. |
| 09/05/2012 | UK retail sales values were down 3.3% on a like-for-like basis from April 2011, when they were up 5.2% on a year ago. On a total basis, sales were down 1.0%, against a 6.9% increase in April 2011. |
| 09/05/2012 | The special administrators of MF Global UK have today confirmed that they have now recovered over $1bn of non-segregated funds. |
| 08/05/2012 | Private equity and infrastructure funds are preparing to fly in the face of the downturn and kick-start an increase in deal activity in the renewable energy sector over the next 18 months |
| 04/05/2012 | John Leech, UK head of KPMG’s automotive practice, comments on the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT) car registration figures which show that new car registrations rose 3.3% in April to 142,322 units. |
| 04/05/2012 | The latest statistics from the Insolvency Service show a massive increase in the number of retailers which went into administration in the first quarter of 2012, compared with the fourth quarter of 2011. |
| 04/05/2012 | The special administrators of Worldspreads have today published the first creditors’ report, in accordance with their statutory obligations. |
| 04/05/2012 | The first quarter figures for 2012, released by the Insolvency Service today, confirmed that 28,723 people went into Bankruptcy, entered into an Individual Voluntary Arrangement (‘IVA’) or a Debt Relief Order (‘DRO’) between January and March 2012 |
| 03/05/2012 | According to the latest research issued by KPMG Investment Advisory, UK Liability Driven Investment (“LDI”) assets under management have increased 28 percent from £243bn to £312bn in the 12 months to December 2011 |
| 03/05/2012 | KPMG has appointed David Ellis, formerly head of Human Capital at BDO, as a partner to lead its UK Reward Practice. |
| 03/05/2012 | Global ship financing is undergoing its biggest transformation for decades as sector stakeholders seek new forms of ship financing, a report by KPMG claims |
| 02/05/2012 | The Markit/CIPS Construction Purchasing Managers' Index (PMI) eased to 55.8 from the previous month's 21-month high of 56.7, still well above the 50 level which separates growth from contraction and beating forecasts for a fall to 54.0. |
| 01/05/2012 | HMRC extending scope of “Senior Accounting Officer” rules to banks and insurance companies |
| 01/05/2012 | The Markit/CIPS Manufacturing Purchasing Managers' Index (PMI) dropped to 50.5 in April from a downwardly revised 51.9 in March |
| 27/04/2012 | Commenting on the Pensions Regulator’s statement today on pension scheme funding, KPMG Pensions Partner, Mike Smedley, said |
| 26/04/2012 | Organisations need to avoid over-analysing the data on their doorstep if they are going to reap the true benefits of ‘big data’, according to KPMG Management Consulting. |
| 26/04/2012 | Stuart Westgate, director at KPMG, comments on the government’s announcement to reduce cost in UK infrastructure projects by 2015: |
| 26/04/2012 | Following its quarterly meeting in April 2012, the KPMG/Ipsos Retail Think Tank (RTT) is reporting an even bleaker outlook for UK retailers, with the health of the industry expected to worsen to record levels before any signs of recovery. |
| 25/04/2012 | Commenting on the Office for National Statistics’ preliminary estimate of UK Gross Domestic Product in the first quarter of 2012, KPMG Chief Economist, Andrew Smith, said: |
| 25/04/2012 | KPMG Europe LLP’s Information Protection and Business Resilience practice was awarded the Information Security Consultancy of the Year by SC Magazine, following the ceremony which was held in London last night |
| 24/04/2012 | Hedge funds significantly outperformed traditional asset classes such as equities, bonds and commodities over the last 17 years according to a new study by The Centre for Hedge Fund Research at Imperial College in London |
| 24/04/2012 | Fewer than 1 in 10 respondents to a survey conducted by KPMG believe that banks are effectively mining their customer data, resulting in a mismatch between customer needs and product offerings. |
| 23/04/2012 | Alan Downey, partner and head of KPMG’s public sector practice, comments on calls from Danny Alexander, Chief Secretary to the Treasury, for Government departments to set aside an additional 5 percent of their budget to help meet austerity measures. |
| 20/04/2012 | has been recognised with 2 awards by the Management Consultancies Association (MCA) in the annual ceremony which recognises and celebrates excellence in management consultancy. |
| 20/04/2012 | Helen Dickinson, head of retail at KPMG comments on the latest Retail Sales figures from the Office for National Statistics |
| 20/04/2012 | The joint special administrators of MF Global UK have today provided an update to clients on a number of current issues |
| 18/04/2012 | KPMG has appointed Kru Desai to lead its local and regional government practice. |
| 17/04/2012 | Pub and restaurant groups saw a modest bounce-back in food and drink sales during March, after a shaky start to 2012 |
| 11/04/2012 | KPMG research has found that changes to business models or operations, growth and people management, were each regarded by COEs as potentially increasing their risk profile |
| 11/04/2012 | The Recruitment and Employment Confederation (REC) and KPMG Report on Jobs – published today – provides the most comprehensive guide to the UK labour market, drawing on original survey data provided by recruitment consultancies. |
| 11/04/2012 | UK retail sales values were up 1.3% on a like-for-like basis from March 2011, when they were down 3.5% on a year ago. |
| 10/04/2012 | With less than 50 days to go until a major new EU law comes into force governing website cookies |
| 10/04/2012 | 2012 looks poised to be a year for renewed global activity in the Transport & Logistics sector, according to an analysis by advisory firm KPMG. |
| 05/04/2012 | Graham Smith, global head of automotive and diversified industrials, comments on the SMMT car registration figures: |
| 05/04/2012 | Will Wright, Andy McGill and Mark Orton of KPMG, joint administrators of Thomson Aero. Limited, announced today that they have sold the business to MB Aerospace Limited. |
| 04/04/2012 | Global m-payment transactions are expected to grow 97 percent per year, over the next 3 years, reaching a value of £591 billion by 2015, according to a report released today by KPMG. |
| 03/04/2012 | Eddie Short, partner and head of business intelligence, argues that companies are spending too long looking at the past, in the hope it gives an insight into their future. |
| 03/04/2012 | Richard Lyle, director in KPMG’s infrastructure, building and construction practice, comments on the Markit/CIPS construction Purchasing Managers' Index which rose to 56.7 from February's 54.3.
|
| 02/04/2012 | The role of in-house finance teams is under the microscope again as CFOs look to expand their level of influence and encourage innovation and growth |
| 02/04/2012 | Manufacturers finally get their act together as they learn valuable lesson in cash management, says KPMG survey |
| 02/04/2012 | The Markit/CIPS Manufacturing Purchasing Managers' Index (PMI) rose to 52.1 in March from an upwardly revised 51.5 in February – hitting the highest level since May 2011.
|
| 30/03/2012 | Patient expectations and the demand for quicker service will drive a change towards eHealth programmes across the NHS and private-care sectors, according to a report published today by KPMG and Manchester Business School. |
| 30/03/2012 | Helen Dickinson, head of UK Retail at KPMG commented today on the Government's response to the Mary Portas Review |
| 30/03/2012 | The special administrators of Worldspreads Limited have today issued all clients with their final statements. |
| 30/03/2012 | Despite the shift to indirect tax globally, a new survey released by KPMG International shows that, simply put, businesses are not keeping pace |
| 29/03/2012 | As the tax year ends on April 5 2012 approaches, the private client team at KPMG in the UK has put together a checklist of tax issues to consider covering income tax... |
| 29/03/2012 | Hitesh Patel, KPMG Forensic Partner, comments on the Annual Fraud Indicator Report, which fiound that fraudsters are costing the UK an estimated £73 billion a year |
| 29/03/2012 | An-insurance-standard-is-urgently-needed-in-2013 |
| 27/03/2012 | In the wake of ongoing debate prompted by ‘Climate Week’, Andrew Hine, Partner and UK Head of Healthcare at KPMG, comments on the opportunity health services have to help global sustainability |
| 27/03/2012 | Demand for legal advice has increased as organisations look to reduce risk and change their contractual obligations, in the wake of the economic downturn. |
| 27/03/2012 | The majority (94 percent) of telecom operators worldwide expect revenue leakage to increase and almost half of them (49percent) believe the increase will be significant, according to a global survey by advisory firm KPMG |
| 27/03/2012 | The deadline for towns to bid for a share of £1 million to help them boost their local High Street runs out this week |
| 27/03/2012 | Simplification proposals announced today should reduce the administrative burden around the CRC without significant losses of CO2 emissions covered by the scheme, says KPMG |
| 22/03/2012 | Omnibus 2 - which amends Solvency II in a number of key areas including its implementation date and inclusion of transitional arrangements - has successfully passed today’s milestone vote by ECON |
| 21/03/2012 | Stripping away the bells and whistles, this budget may appeal to some supply-side economists but is essentially neutral and has done nothing to fundamentally change the outlook. |
| 21/03/2012 | Dr. Ashley Steel, KPMG’s global chair for transport comments: “At long last pressure from business and lobby groups appears to be weakening the government’s previous resolve to oppose airport capacity in the South East.”
|
| 21/03/2012 | Today’s Budget will both help and hinder distressed businesses in the UK, says Brian Green, Advisory Partner at KPMG. |
| 21/03/2012 | Commenting on today’s announcement that the bank levy will increase from 0.088 % of banks’ balance sheets to 0.105%, Tom Aston, financial services tax partner at KPMG commented: |
| 21/03/2012 | Protecting tax revenues by tackling artificial avoidance is clearly a priority for the government, says Chris Morgan, head of tax policy, at KPMG in the UK. |
| 21/03/2012 | The announcement that the UK’s headline rate of corporation tax will drop to 24 percent in April takes the UK from having the 20th highest rate in the European Union to 15th, according to KPMG in the UK |
| 21/03/2012 | Infrastructure remained at the top of the political agenda today, earning mention by the Chancellor in the first minute of his budget statement, says Richard Threlfall, head of infrastructure, building and construction at KPMG. |
| 21/03/2012 | Malcolm Edge, UK Head of National Markets said "SMEs in the UK would have wanted to have seen three things from the announcement today, how to improve competitiveness, how to de-cluter leglislation and how to stimulate growth. |
| 21/03/2012 | David Prestwich, Head of Tax for Transport and Leisure at KPMG says "At the moment most UK gambling spend is placed with offshore groups and the move to a consumption tax is a neat way of bringing that spend under the visibility of the UK treasury." |
| 21/03/2012 | The Chancellor has confirmed his intention, as announced in the Autumn Statement, to introduce an Above the Line (“ATL”) Credit for qualifying Research & Development expenditure for large companies. |
| 21/03/2012 | It is likely that the stamp duty charges outlined in today’s Budget (15% on properties over £2 million bought via a company) will hit the high end London property market says David Kilshaw, tax partner at KPMG. |
| 21/03/2012 | The Chancellor’s announcement on interest relief will come as a blow for some UK entrepreneurs, according to David Kilshaw, tax partner at KPMG. |
| 21/03/2012 | While today’s Budget was relatively quiet from a pensions point of view, there was nevertheless confirmation of more bad news for open final salary pension schemes. |
| 21/03/2012 | Kru Desai, KPMG’s head of Local and Regional Government, comments on the Chancellor’s announcement that ten cities will receive investment in ultrafast broadband and wireless access. |
| 21/03/2012 | Real Time Information (“RTI”) payroll reporting is being phased in on a trial basis from April 2012, with all employers required to comply on a phased entry basis from April to October 2013. |
| 21/03/2012 | We welcome the proposed increase of the individual limits for the tax-efficient Enterprise Management, says Matthew Hunnybun, Tax Partner at KPMG. |
| 21/03/2012 | In what was a broadly supportive Budget for the SME community in the UK, there could be a grey area around anti-avoidance measures, says David Bywater, Tax Partner at KPMG in the UK. |
| 21/03/2012 | Lucy Parry, Media Tax Specialist at KPMG says "This is a welcome boost for the UK creative industries. It will hopefully prevent large budget British TV productions like Titanic and The Tudors being filmed abroad where tax breaks are more generous." |
| 21/03/2012 | Today’s announcement of the creation of an initial £2bn pension infrastructure investment platform is tangible progress in getting UK pensions invested in UK assets, says Richard Threlfall, head of Infrastructure, Building and Construction at KPMG. |
| 21/03/2012 | One of the biggest challenges for manufacturers recently has been the availability of funds to sustain and drive their business, so the announcement of a £20 billion loan guarantee scheme is welcome news, says Stephen Cooper, partner at KPMG. |
| 21/03/2012 | Technology start-ups in the UK want to be able focus on their product and customers. They want it to be easy to be innovative and take risks, says Tim Kay, Technology Start-up Lead at KPMG. |
| 21/03/2012 | The so called ‘mansions tax’ is unlikely to have a huge impact beyond affecting price negotiations, says Gordon Keenay, deputy head of KPMG’s Stamp Taxes Group. |
| 21/03/2012 | The Chancellor removed the ‘cliff edge’ in withdrawing child benefit in today’s Budget - but smoothing its withdrawal for those with incomes over £50,000 has left some anomalies between single earning and multiple earning households, according to KPMG. |
| 21/03/2012 | The temporary relaxation to Sunday trading laws risks presenting more challenges than opportunities to businesses during the Olympics, says Helen Dickinson, Head of UK Retail at KPMG. |
| 21/03/2012 | Within the fine detail of the Budget, further updates were announced to the longstanding benefit of company cars and private fuel provision, says Matthew Hunnybun, Tax Partner at KPMG. |
| 21/03/2012 | The headline grabber was of course the reduction in the top rate of personal tax to 45% from April next year, says Gary Deans, UK Head of Family Business. |
| 21/03/2012 | The Chancellor did help to create a more attractive and settled tax landscape for the SME sector with corporate tax rates falling faster than anticipated, says David Bywater, Tax Partner. |
| 21/03/2012 | Today’s announcement risks creating greater uncertainty amongst businesses, but in reality it’s nothing new, says Wielgus lead CRC advisor at KPMG. |
| 21/03/2012 | Employment status is currently high on HMRC’s agenda. Employers should be aware of their obligations to ensure they correctly categorise employees and self employed individuals, says Matthew Hunnybun, Tax Partner at KPMG. |
| 20/03/2012 | Daring KPMG staff are swapping their offices for the breathtaking Sahara desert to raise vital funds for Barnardo’s, the UK’s largest children’s charity- and are on track to raise an amazing £150,000 for the cause. |
| 19/03/2012 | KPMG’s UK Banks: Performance Benchmarking Report highlights how profitability at the UK’s largest banks has suffered at the hands of the Eurozone crisis and the significant costs associated with PPI, the bank levy and regulatory requirements |
| 19/03/2012 | Upon the application of the directors the High Court appointed Jane Moriarty and Samantha Bewick of KPMG as joint special administrators of Worldspreads Ltd, a UK based spread betting business |
| 15/03/2012 | John Leech, head of automotive at KPMG, comments on the SMMT car production figures: |
| 14/03/2012 | The Majority of technology companies in Europe and the Middle East regard data privacy and security as a back office requirement, according to KPMG’s latest Business Leaders Survey |
| 14/03/2012 | Reacting to the news, today, that unemployment has risen by 28,000 in the three months to January, Bernard Brown, Partner and Head of Business Services at KPMG, says |
| 14/03/2012 | KPMG warns today that HMRC has launched a campaign targeting people who sell goods and services online for profit. |
| 14/03/2012 | Poundland, Poundworld and Iceland snap up 30 closed stores |
| 13/03/2012 | A new survey by KPMG has uncovered that healthcare professionals view their number one priority as changing business operations to drive down cost |
| 13/03/2012 | Costs, cash and the customer remain at the top of retailers’ agendas for 2012, according to KPMG’s Succeeding in a Changing World Business Leaders Survey. |
| 13/03/2012 | “Wait and see” approach of many trustees to plan for de-risking when conditions improve does nothing to manage their risk today, according to KPMG paper, “Is delayed de-risking the right strategy? Seven things you should know.” |
| 13/03/2012 | Britain’s leading pub and restaurant groups are reporting tough trading conditions at the start of 2012 – with collective like-for-like sales down 3.7% in February, following a 2.1% fall in January.
|
| 12/03/2012 | KPMG has announced that Simon Collins will become its new UK Chairman and Senior Partner. |
| 12/03/2012 | KPMG is pleased to announce the appointment of James Siswick as a Director within its Financial Services Forensic team. |
| 09/03/2012 | Measures are expected around the time of this month’s budget that could provide a small fillip to the UK economy by making certain types of investment in UK businesses more attractive from a tax perspective, according to KPMG in the UK |
| 07/03/2012 | The REC/KPMG Report on Jobs shows growth of permanent staff placements was recorded for the second month running in February, and at the strongest pace since last May. |
| 06/03/2012 | BRC-KPMG Retail Sales Monitor February 2012 |
| 06/03/2012 | John Leech, UK Head of Automotive at KPMG, comments on the SMMT new car registration figures for February |
| 06/03/2012 | Commenting on the Audit Commission’s announcement in respect of the award of audit contracts for five years from the 2012/13 financial year, Mike McDonagh, Head of Public Sector Audit at KPMG, said |
| 05/03/2012 | Businesses are leaving planning for the onset of “Real Time Information” payroll reporting dangerously late, according to KPMG in the UK. |
| 05/03/2012 | A KPMG report, Evolving Insurance Regulation, highlights concerns that the final Solvency II proposals could negatively affect the pensions market and wider economy in some European countries. |
| 05/03/2012 | More public, than private, sector leaders are willing to change business operations to deliver cost efficiencies, according to KPMG. |
| 05/03/2012 | KPMG has appointed Stephen Barter as chairman of its real estate advisory practice. Stephen was previously UK CEO of Qatari Diar, part of the Qatar Investment Authority, and has held senior roles at Grosvenor and Richard Ellis (now CBRE). |
| 01/03/2012 | Compared with other industries, including banking and insurance, investment managers are bullish about growth opportunities according to KPMG’s Succeeding in a Changing World report |
| 29/02/2012 | Dr. Ashley Steel, KPMG’s global chair for aviation comments on today’s IAG full year results |
| 29/02/2012 | Commenting on today’s Supreme Court judgment on the Lehman case and its implications on the MF Global UK segregated client pool, Richard Heis, joint special administrator and restructuring partner at KPMG, said: |
| 29/02/2012 | 2012 is set to be the year in which “long lease” property funds go mainstream as pension funds look for certainty over future rental streams, according to KPMG in the UK. |
| 28/02/2012 | Organisations across the globe have identified some of the key drivers they believe will stimulate economic performance, according to data collated by KPMG |
| 28/02/2012 | McNulty Group Holdings and its subsidiaries, McNulty Offshore Construction Ltd and Consafe Engineering Services Ltd, appointed Mark Firmin and Howard Smith of KPMG’s restructuring practice as joint administrators on 24th of February 2012 |
| 28/02/2012 | After years of lip service about the importance of people to their organisation, a new survey by KPMG reveals that the economic downturn has elevated ‘people matters’ to the top 5 concerns for business leaders across Europe and the Middle East |
| 27/02/2012 | 43% of media companies in Europe and the Middle East say that preparing their organization for “major business model change” is currently their top business priority, according to a survey of senior executives |
| 24/02/2012 | Commenting on HMRC's announcement on 23 February that it will create thirty new tax evasion task forces, Derek Scott, director of Tax Investigations at KPMG in the UK, said |
| 22/02/2012 | As the latest UK Customer Satisfaction Index figures are released by the Institute of Customer Service*KPMG is today urging consumer-facing businesses to give greater attention to social media |
| 22/02/2012 | The growth in the use of Cloud services to replace traditional IT service provision presents significant challenges to both taxpayers and tax authorities, according to KPMG in the UK |
| 22/02/2012 | Richard Fleming, Chris Laverty, Ed Boyle and Joff Pope of KPMG, joint administrators of Peacocks, have today announced the sale of the business to Edinburgh Woollen Mill. |
| 21/02/2012 | A survey of leading executives across Europe and the Middle East has shown that businesses are continuing to cut costs and focus on efficiencies |
| 21/02/2012 | of the publication of the latest NHS Hospital and Community Health Service workforce statistics, later today, Andrew Hine, Partner and UK Head of Public Healthcare at KPMG, comments |
| 21/02/2012 | KPMG takes top prize in the Islamic finance awards for an unprecedented 5th year in a row |
| 21/02/2012 | KPMG has appointed John Leech as UK Head of its Automotive practice |
| 17/02/2012 | KPMG International’s latest Global M&A Predictor shows that the first six months of 2012, and beyond, are likely to be tough for M&A. |
| 16/02/2012 | John Leech, Partner in KPMG’s Automotive practice comments on the SMMT car production figures |
| 16/02/2012 | UK insurers’ hopes that they may have been excluded from the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA) regime have been dashed by last week’s release of proposed regulations from the IRS. |
| 15/02/2012 | KPMG has identified 10 “megaforces” that will significantly affect corporate growth globally over the next two decades. |
| 14/02/2012 | Leading UK pub and restaurant groups saw collective like-for-like sales fall 2.1% in January against the same month last year |
| 13/02/2012 | Retailers and consumer goods companies say mobile technology will be the key driver to maximize sales over the next two years ahead of more traditional ways to generate business such as business intelligence or supply chain management |
| 13/02/2012 | The joint special administrators of MF Global UK have confirmed that they started making interim distribution payments to those with agreed client money claims on Friday 10th February. |
| 13/02/2012 | Consumer Markets companies are showing greater appetite for risk reviews, as finance leaders and their boards meet more frequently to discuss the key risks according to KPMG’s latest global CFO Consumer Markets survey |
| 10/02/2012 | KPMG is pleased to announce it has entered into a strategic alliance with the Institute for Family Business (IFB). |
| 09/02/2012 | Adrian Harkin, global FATCA leader at KPMG, responds to the proposed FATCA regulations issued yesterday by the US Internal Revenue Services (IRS)
|
| 09/02/2012 | KPMG Chief Economist, Andrew Smith, comments on today’s decision from the Bank of England to maintain interest rates at 0.5% and increase the size of the Asset Purchase Programme by £50 billion to £325 billion |
| 08/02/2012 | The Recruitment and Employment Confederation (REC) and KPMG Report on Jobs – published today – provides the most comprehensive guide to the UK labour market, drawing on original survey data provided by recruitment consultancies. |
| 08/02/2012 | Professional services firm KPMG is launching a new apprenticeship programme based in its Canary Wharf offices in London, within its Risk Consulting practice. |
| 07/02/2012 | UK retail sales values were down 0.3% on a like-for-like basis from January 2011, when sales had risen 2.3%, picking up after December 2010’s snow disruption. |
| 06/02/2012 | Rising tuition fees and an uncertain jobs market are making higher education an increasingly serious business that is all about ensuring employability for the future, according to a survey by KPMG. |
| 03/02/2012 | More than half of UK businesses are concerned about the safety of their data as cloud computing takes off but their fear is not preventing adoption |
| 03/02/2012 | the wake of the Government tabling amendments to the Health and Social Care Bill and ahead of the Report Stage on 8th February, Andrew Hine, Partner and UK Head of Public Healthcare at KPMG, comments |
| 03/02/2012 | Continued high unemployment and rises in the costs of living may make it difficult for individuals to commit to existing payment arrangements with their creditors. |
| 03/02/2012 | The latest statistics from the Insolvency Service show a broadly flat quarter on quarter picture with insolvencies rising just 0.4 percent from the third to the fourth quarter last year. |
| 01/02/2012 | KPMG in the UK welcomes the issue of the Accounting Standards Board’s (ASB’s) latest Financial Reporting Exposure Draft (FRED) |
| 01/02/2012 | John Leech, head of KPMG’s automotive practice comments on the monthly Markit/CIPS UK manufacturing purchasing managers’ index (PMI). |
| 31/01/2012 | The European Commission’s proposal for an EU wide tax on financial transactions (FTT) has generated much public and political discussion since it was published on September 28, 2011. |
| 30/01/2012 | The total amount of fraud in 2011 topped £3.5 billion – a record year – according to KPMG’s Fraud Barometer, as Britons across the country continue to struggle with tough economic conditions |
| 30/01/2012 | KPMG’s Global Construction Survey finds that top global engineering and construction leaders expect the energy/power industry to offer the biggest opportunities for growth in 2012 |
| 27/01/2012 | The spread of social media at the Annual World Economic Forum 2012, in particular the use of Twitter, has extended the dialogue beyond the meeting rooms and corridors of Davos to the global community
|
| 26/01/2012 | The administrators of Peacocks have today provided an update on the sales process for the business |
| 26/01/2012 | Despite ‘big data’ increasing and identity fraud costing the UK £27 billion per year and affecting 1.8 million people |
| 26/01/2012 | Richard Fleming, UK Head of Restructuring at KPMG, today welcomed the government's statement on proposed ‘pre-pack’ administration reform
|
| 25/01/2012 | Commenting on the 4th quarter UK GDP figures published today, KPMG Chief Economist, Andrew Smith, said: |
| 25/01/2012 | Speaking at the Risk Congress in London, Giles Triffitt, director within KPMG’s Risk Consulting practice, focused on risk efficiency and the cost of risk management |
| 24/01/2012 | The survey, based on the views of 585 senior purchasing professionals, explores levels of influence exerted by company buying functions, within their organisation. |
| 24/01/2012 | KPMG has appointed Matt Whipp, formerly Head of Business Risk and Transfer Pricing at Diageo plc, as a Director in its UK Transfer Pricing practice. |
| 23/01/2012 | Streamed TV is becoming more mainstream in the UK particularly among younger people, according to the latest KPMG Media & Entertainment Barometer |
| 23/01/2012 | Social media aggregation site, www.weflive.com. provides a simple way to follow Twitter conversations from delegates of the Annual World Economic Forum 2012, Davos, Switzerland, 25-29 January |
| 23/01/2012 | Administrators from KPMG were appointed to Bonmarché, the clothing retailer, on Friday 20th January. The administrators immediately sold 389 stores, and its headquarters, to Sun European Partners |
| 23/01/2012 | The U.S. Internal Revenue Services’ (IRS) delay in release of the proposed regulations for the Foreign Accounts Tax Compliance Act (FATCA) may drive up the costs of compliance programmes, warns KPMG. |
| 20/01/2012 | Helen Dickinson, head of retail at KPMG comments on the latest Retail Sales figures from the Office for National Statistics: |
| 19/01/2012 | John Leech, partner in KPMG’s Automotive practice, comments on the SMMT car production figures: |
| 19/01/2012 | The joint administrators of Peacocks have announced 249 redundancies at the head office |
| 18/01/2012 | Bernard Brown, Partner and Head of Business Services at KPMG, reacts to the publication of the latest UK employment figures |
| 18/01/2012 | Richard Fleming, Chris Laverty, Ed Boyle and Joff Pope of KPMG have been appointed joint administrators to Peacock’s Stores Limited, |
| 17/01/2012 | Britain’s leading pub and restaurant groups enjoyed a major sales boost over Christmas and New Year. |
| 17/01/2012 | KPMG has welcomed suggestions that employers should offer ‘ownership’ as a way of incentivising staff, but suggests that altering business models is only one way to drive performance. |
| 17/01/2012 | KPMG is delighted to announce that it has been recognised for its efforts to protect businesses, build innovative programmes to improve organisational stability and help London gear up for the Olympics. |
| 17/01/2012 | Helen Dickinson, head of retail at KPMG comments on the latest UK inflation figures from the Office for National Statistics |
| 16/01/2012 | Howard Smith, Mark Firmin and Joff Pope of KPMG’s Restructuring practice were appointed joint administrators to gift retailer Past Times on 16 January 2012. |
| 16/01/2012 | Following its January meeting, the KPMG/Ipsos Retail Think Tank (RTT) concluded thatthe deterioration in retail health seen throughout 2011 continued in quarter 4. |
| 12/01/2012 | Half of pension schemes believe their pension liabilities should form part of their annual accounts and be subject to audit, according to a KPMG survey |
| 12/01/2012 | KPMG Chief Economist Andrew Smith comments on the Bank of England Monetary Policy Committee’s decision to leave interest rates on hold
|
| 12/01/2012 | With HMRC bringing in new penalties for late submission of self-assessment tax returns, missing the deadline could prove very expensive, warns KPMG in the UK. |
| 12/01/2012 | Benoit Reillier, Director in KPMG’s Economics & Regulation practice comments on OFCOM’s second spectrum consultation on the forthcoming spectrum auction |
| 11/01/2012 | Recruitment consultants signalled a drop in the number of people placed in permanent jobs for the third successive month in December. |
| 10/01/2012 | UK retail sales values were 2.2% higher on a like-for-like basis from December 2010, when sales had fallen 0.3%, hit by snow. |
| 10/01/2012 | The Joint Special Administrators of MF Global UK Limited, have released an update following the creditors' meeting on the progress made in the special administration to date. |
| 10/01/2012 | Following the release of the Portas Review on the future of high streets in the UK late last year, the KPMG/Ipsos Retail Think Tank (RTT) has warned that it is virtually impossible to halt the natural evolution of the retail sector. |
| 09/01/2012 | KPMG Europe LLP reports that combined turnover grew by 13 percent to reach €4,589 million in the year to 30 September, 2011 |
| 09/01/2012 | Brian Green, Richard Fleming and David Costley-Wood of KPMG were appointed joint administrators to Blacks Leisure Group today. On appointment, the administrators sold the business to JD Sports |
| 09/01/2012 | Richard Fleming, David Standish and Rob Croxen, restructuring partners at KPMG, were today appointed joint administrators to La Senza UK. Following their appointment they completed an agreement to sell part of the business to Alshaya UK Limited |
| 06/01/2012 | KPMG has strengthened its specialist defined contributions (“DC”) pensions advisory team, with the appointment of Andy Seed as a director.
|
| 05/01/2012 | Global car manufacturers and IT companies are realising the car’s potential as a gateway to the internet, according to KPMG’s 13th Global Automotive Executive Survey |
| 01/01/2012 | All press releases from KPMG in the UK during 2011 |
| 29/12/2011 | A number of UK travel companies and tour operators will struggle to survive in 2012 unless they radically change their business models and adapt to a fundamentally new market environment, says advisory firm KPMG. |
| 23/12/2011 | Mark Guinibert, Customer & Channel Partner at KPMG, has outlined 3 key changes he believes UK organisations must adopt, if they are to boost performance in 2012. |
| 22/12/2011 | The New Year will fail to bring a rosier outlook for the UK’s struggling retailers, according to the KPMG/Synovate Retail Think Tank (RTT). |
| 22/12/2011 | “For aviation operators with flights departing and/or arriving in Europe, this will place a significant compliance burden with associated costs |
| 22/12/2011 | KPMG warns businesses to be extra vigilant over the festive season to avoid being scammed by bogus suppliers. |
| 21/12/2011 | Mark Winlow, UK head of general insurance at KPMG, gives his ‘new year outlook’ for the general insurance market.
|
| 20/12/2011 | Commenting on the Treasury’s endorsement of the Independent Commission on Banking (ICB) proposals, Jon Pain, UK head of financial services risk consulting at KPMG, said |
| 20/12/2011 | KPMG and the National Association of Primary Care (NAPC) are today publishing the first in a series of guides, designed to support doctors as they seek authorisation from the NHS Commissioning Board. |
| 20/12/2011 | Britain’s leading pub and restaurant groups saw sales continue to grow in November. |
| 19/12/2011 | Counterfeit products are more easily available and cheaper compared to four years ago, according to KPMG’s Counterfeit Christmas Index. |
| 19/12/2011 | HMRC released today extensive statistics for the first time about transfer pricing enquiries, Advanced Pricing Agreements (APAs), and Mutual Agreement Procedure (MAP). |
| 16/12/2011 | Businesses in the UK, Germany and Canada are lagging behind their peers in the emerging markets when it comes to adopting and using social media. |
| 16/12/2011 | The Joint Special Administrators of MF Global UK Limited, today release their latest administration update, which includes an update on positions closed and client and creditor claims forms received to date. |
| 16/12/2011 | The International Accounting Standards Board today confirmed that it will retain its existing model for offsetting financial assets and liabilities |
| 15/12/2011 | Financial reporting in the shipping industry is improving but still lags best practice, according to a KPMG study into the reporting practices of the world’s biggest shipping companies |
| 15/12/2011 | John Leech, partner in KPMG’s automotive practice comments on the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders car production figures |
| 14/12/2011 | Reacting to the publication, today, of the latest UK employment figures, Bernard Brown, Partner and Head of Business Services at KPMG, says: |
| 13/12/2011 | An update from the European Parliament this morning has revealed that Omnibus II has been further delayed with the European Parliament not due to vote on the final rules until April 2012. |
| 13/12/2011 | Helen Dickinson, head of retail at KPMG comments on the latest UK inflation figures from the Office for National Statistics: |
| 12/12/2011 | As the health secretary, Andrew Lansley, unveils a new system to assess success in the health service based on the quality of care patients receive, KPMG Partner, Roberta Carter, comments |
| 12/12/2011 | KPMG today announced member firm combined revenues totaling $22.7 billion for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2011 |
| 12/12/2011 | Christine Hewson, tax partner at KPMG in the UK, outlines 5 key tax issues that all groups should have considered prior to year end |
| 09/12/2011 | KPMG has appointed Paul Sawdon as UK Head of its Internal Audit practice. |
| 07/12/2011 | The Recruitment and Employment Confederation (REC) and KPMG Report on Jobs – published today – provides the most comprehensive guide to the UK labour market |
| 06/12/2011 | UK retail sales values were 1.6% lower on a like-for-like basis from November 2010, when sales had risen 0.7%. |
| 06/12/2011 | HM Treasury has decided to delay the implementation of a new statutory residence test until April 2013 – a year later than the original proposal of April 2012 |
| 06/12/2011 | John Leech, partner in KPMG’s automotive practice comments on November’s new car registration figures published today by the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT): |
| 05/12/2011 | Consumers around the world are embracing new technology at a rapid pace, a fact that is changing lifestyles and the commercial landscape around the globe, according to KPMG’s latest Consumer & Convergence Report. |
| 05/12/2011 | More businesses now planning for Olympics, but concerns remain over transport and skills |
| 05/12/2011 | KPMG’s latest Business Outlook survey offers a small crumb of optimism for business in the UK |
| 01/12/2011 | Estimates of Spectrum auction revenues across Europe could be in the region of €20 billion between 2011 and 2015, according to KPMG’s Spectrum Monitor |
| 01/12/2011 | KPMG has been named ‘Global Firm of the Year’ for the second year in a row at the British Accountancy Awards and picked up three other accolades |
| 01/12/2011 | John Leech, partner in KPMG’s automotive practice comments on the Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) data published today |
| 30/11/2011 | “While the audit profession was not the cause of the financial crisis referenced in the EU’s Green Paper, KPMG supports new policies and ideas to improve audit relevance and quality in the context of wider regulatory reform. |
| 29/11/2011 | Tom Aston, financial services tax partner at KPMG comments on the bank levy increase from 0.078% to 0.088% of banks’ balance sheets |
| 29/11/2011 | As expected, the Office for Budgetary Responsibility has reduced its growth forecasts. The result is that the spending squeeze across the public sector will be extended well beyond the life of the current parliament, into 2016, 2017 and beyond |
| 29/11/2011 | clarification on Asset-Backed Financing Pensions tax rules welcome, says KPMG's pensions partner, Mike Smedley |
| 29/11/2011 | Richard Threlfall, head of infrastructure, building and construction at KPMG comments on the government’s national infrastructure plan |
| 29/11/2011 | As the Chancellor delivered his autumn statement, AMR- owner of American Airlines- filed for bankruptcy protection |
| 29/11/2011 | Malcolm Edge, KPMG’s UK Head of National Markets, believes that the Autumn Statement is good news for business, but warns that although there are some ‘gifts for business’, they have come at a cost and some areas still need attention. |
| 29/11/2011 | Richard Fleming, UK Head of Restructuring at KPMG, comments on the government’s call for evidence on the effectiveness of employment (TUPE) regulations |
| 29/11/2011 | Mike Steventon, senior partner of KPMG in Birmingham comments on today’s Autumn Statement |
| 29/11/2011 | The Chancellor blamed international developments for undermining the recovery and the deficit reduction plan, but that is hardly the whole story, says KPMG Chief Economist Andew Smith |
| 29/11/2011 | The Chancellor laid out plans to remove several barriers to growth today, in a package of announcements designed to support and help the UK’s SME community.
|
| 29/11/2011 | David Sayer, Global Head of Retail Banking at KPMG, comments on measures to ease credit conditions announced in the Autumn Statement |
| 29/11/2011 | The Chancellor recognizes the significance of transport for economic growth. He has wrapped a pre-Christmas package of transport measures which will benefit everyone |
| 29/11/2011 | With the notable exception of the banking sector this was broadly a business-friendly autumn statement for tax, says Chris Morgan, head of tax policy |
| 29/11/2011 | “The Chancellor’s emphasis on transport and infrastructure projects reflects the increasing recognition by many politicians on the role of infrastructure in economic growth – and this is to be welcomed. |
| 29/11/2011 | The Chancellor has announced that from 2013 an above the line tax credit will be available for qualifying Research & Development expenditure. |
| 29/11/2011 | Richard Threlfall, head of infrastructure, building and construction at KPMG comments on the government’s national infrastructure plan: |
| 29/11/2011 | Harinder Soor, director in KPMG’s capital allowances advisory practice, comments on capital allowances announced in today’s autumn statement. |
| 29/11/2011 | The freeze of the planned fuel duty rise will bring great relief to trucking companies |
| 29/11/2011 | Alan Downey, KPMG’s Head of Public Sector, says the Chancellor’s announcement that public sector pay could be made more responsive to local labour markets may throw the UK regions a jobs life line.
|
| 29/11/2011 | Malcolm Edge, UK Head of National markets at KPMG, comments on the announcement that businesses and the young unemployed will be brought together to drive the UK’s economic recovery and growth |
| 28/11/2011 | Richard Fleming, Richard Heis and Mike Pink of KPMG LLP, the Joint Special Administrators of MF Global UK Limited, have announced today a timeline for the return of client money and client assets. |
| 28/11/2011 | Some UK retailers blame poor or unexpected weather too often as a reason for poor performance figures, according to the latest White Paper from the KPMG/Synovate Retail Think Tank |
| 25/11/2011 | The UK’s corporate tax competitiveness appears to have finally turned a corner, according to research commissioned by KPMG in the UK. |
| 25/11/2011 | Chris Morgan has been appointed head of tax policy at KPMG in the UK, taking over from Anneli Collins who is now global head of M&A tax for KPMG in the UK. |
| 23/11/2011 | Richard Fleming, Richard Heis and Mike Pink of KPMG LLP, the Special Administrators of MF Global UK Limited, announce today |
| 21/11/2011 | Chris Morgan, tax partner at KPMG in the UK, comments
on HM Treasurys recommendation for the introduction of a General Anti Avoidance Rule (GAAR) |
| 21/11/2011 | KPMG Europe LLP has appointed Tim Payne as Head of People across its member firms. |
| 21/11/2011 | Over the past 5 years, the UK Fiduciary Management market has grown to now comprise over £40bn of assets, covering over 200 pension scheme mandates, and equating to around 4 percent of the total UK pension scheme assets under management. |
| 18/11/2011 | Tom Brown, European head of investment management at KPMG, responds to the technical advice issued by the European Securities and Markets Authority on the Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive |
| 18/11/2011 | KPMG has seen over 650,000 MF Global open positions closed since the UK business was placed into administration on Monday 31 October. |
| 16/11/2011 | KPMG has appointed Dr Marc van Grondelle as Head of its Joint Venture practice in the UK and Europe. |
| 16/11/2011 | Shamus Rae, lead Partner in the Sourcing Advisory practice, KPMG in the UK, won the ‘outsourcing professional of the year’ award for 2011 at the eighth annual award ceremony of The National Outsourcing Association, which took place in London. |
| 15/11/2011 | Corporate tax rates have been steadily falling for a decade, while indirect taxes in the form of value added tax and goods and services tax (VAT/GST) systems have been introduced across the globe, |
| 15/11/2011 | Helen Dickinson, head of retail at KPMG comments on the latest inflation figures from the Office for National Statistics: |
| 14/11/2011 | KPMG welcomed the second round of proposals on revenue issued today by the International Accounting Standards Board and the US Financial Accounting Standards Board. |
| 11/11/2011 | KPMG in the UK was the highest ranked accountancy firm in the Environment Agency’s Carbon Reduction Commitment (CRC) league table published this week. |
| 10/11/2011 | Austerity is triggering change on an unprecedented scale within local government as new models of organisation and service delivery are being explored almost universally. |
| 10/11/2011 | While UK life insurers are on track to meet Solvency II requirements they remain under considerable pressure, despite the 12 month implementation delay, primarily due to the lack of clarity about the final requirements. |
| 09/11/2011 | The Recruitment and Employment Confederation (REC) and KPMG Report on Jobs – published today – provides the most comprehensive guide to the UK labour market, drawing on original survey data provided by recruitment consultancies. |
| 08/11/2011 | Consultation paper released today sheds further light on SII requirements, however more clarity still needed. |
| 08/11/2011 | UK retail sales values were 0.6% lower on a like-for-like basis from October 2010, when sales had risen 0.8%. On a total basis, sales were up 1.5%, against a 2.4% increase in October 2010. |
| 08/11/2011 | Danny Clark, insurance partner at KPMG, commented: “The release of today’s consultation paper package is a very positive move by EIOPA to get the industry engaged and drive the Solvency II debate forward |
| 07/11/2011 | Nearly every Global Fortune 250 (G250) company now reports its corporate responsibility activity, with the UK topping the global ranking according to the KPMG International Survey of Corporate Responsibility Reporting 2011 |
| 07/11/2011 | KPMG has seen over 650,000 MF Global open positions closed since the UK business was placed into administration on Monday 31 October. |
| 04/11/2011 | Dr. Ashley Steel, KPMG’s global head of transport comments on IAG’s agreement to buy Lufthansa-owned Bmi: |
| 04/11/2011 | Inflationary pressures on household budgets mean debtors likely to breach repayment plans, warns KPMG |
| 03/11/2011 | The joint administrators of MF Global UK have provided the following update on progress since their appointment on Monday 31st October |
| 02/11/2011 | Malcolm Marshall, head of KPMG’s information security and business resilience practice comments on the Conference on Cyberspace, being held in London |
| 01/11/2011 | Andrew Smith, KPMG’s Chief Economist, comments on the UK’s 0.5pc third quarter growth |
| 01/11/2011 | Glynn Bellamy, partner in KPMG’s manufacturing practice comments on the UK manufacturing PMI figures: |
| 31/10/2011 | If all UK defined benefit schemes had to have a mark-to-market funding valuation at 30 September, the aggregate deficit could be as much as £295bn according to KPMG. |
| 31/10/2011 | Richard Threlfall, KPMG’s UK head of infrastructure, building and construction, comments on the Government’s three-pronged plan to revive Britain’s economy |
| 31/10/2011 | Upon the application of the directors of MF Global UK Limited, the High Court has today appointed Richard Fleming, Richard Heis and Mike Pink of KPMG LLP as joint special administrators of MF Global UK Limited, a UK based broker-dealer business. |
| 24/10/2011 | Asset-backed financing for pension schemes (where a sponsoring employer uses business assets to generate cash which is then paid to the pension scheme) continues to grow |
| 24/10/2011 | KPMG is delighted to announce the appointment of Paul Evans as a Director in its Risk Consulting practice. |
| 21/10/2011 | Responding to today’s announcement by the Office of Fair Trading that it is referring the market for the supply of statutory audit services to large companies in the UK to the Competition Commission, KPMG said: |
| 20/10/2011 | Dr. Ashley Steel, KPMG’s global head for transport comments on Frankfurt Airport’s fourth runway:
|
| 20/10/2011 | Commenting on the European Commission’s proposals on the second Markets in Financial Instrument Directive (MiFID) released today |
| 19/10/2011 | KPMG has appointed Stephen Cooper as UK Head of its Diversified Industrials practice. Stephen is an audit partner and has been with the firm for 30 years. |
| 19/10/2011 | Commenting on today’s judgment from the Supreme Court on the long-running “Gaines-Cooper” tax residence case, tax partner, Mike Walker, of KPMG in the UK, said: |
| 19/10/2011 | The International Accounting Standards Board today published new requirements for accounting for production stripping costs incurred in surface mining activity |
| 18/10/2011 | Britain’s leading pub and restaurant groups saw collective like-for-like sales grow 2.8% in September, according to latest Coffer Peach Business Tracker data |
| 17/10/2011 | In a bid to escape sluggish economic conditions at home, UK firms have been on an M&A spending spree in Central and Eastern Europe according to KPMG’s latest ‘Emerging Markets International Acquisitions Tracker’ (EMIAT); |
| 17/10/2011 | UK caravan and motorhome retailer, Discover Leisure Plc, and its trading subsidiary Signlease Ltd, have today appointed Mark Firmin and Paul Flint of KPMG as joint administrators. |
| 14/10/2011 | KPMG has launched a new graduate recruitment process fit for the digital age which uses an advanced software application to take students into a simulation of a real office environment complete with a series of real-time tasks.
|
| 14/10/2011 | The latest construction output figures are yet more evidence that the green shoots of recovery are withering; particularly worrying is the near 25% fall in private industrial new work. |
| 14/10/2011 | Increasing numbers of pensioners are receiving offers from their previous employer to change the form of their pension... |
| 13/10/2011 | Success of KPMG’s Global Green Initiative demonstrates commitment to reducing environmental impact—further reduction targets announced |
| 11/10/2011 | BRC-KPMG Retail Sales Monitor September 2011 - heat helps rood, harms clothes |
| 10/10/2011 | KPMG in the UK has announced the appointment of 29 new partners and 88 new directors from within the firm. The promotions took effect from 1 October – KPMG’s new financial year. |
| 10/10/2011 | Jon Exley, previously a partner within Mercer’s specialist Financial Strategy Group, is to join the Investment Advisory practice at KPMG in the UK as a partner in November this year. |
| 07/10/2011 | The market for portfolios of bank debt has officially thawed in the UK, according to the second Global Debt Sales report from KPMG’s Portfolio Solutions Group. |
| 07/10/2011 | Commenting on the significant tax agreement signed yesterday between Switzerland and the UK, Paul Harrison, tax partner and head of tax investigations at KPMG in the UK, said: |
| 06/10/2011 | KPMG’s annual ‘Run-off survey’ of UK non-life insurance, has shown that liabilities have reduced again in 2010 but at a slower pace than in the past. |
| 06/10/2011 | KPMG is pleased to announce the appointment of Charles Muller to its European investment management practice. Charles was previously the Deputy Director General of ALFI, the association of the Luxembourg fund industry. |
| 06/10/2011 | Following the MPC’s decision to embark on another round of quantitative easing, Andrew Smith, KPMG’s Chief Economist, commented: |
| 05/10/2011 | The Recruitment and Employment Confederation (REC) and KPMG Report on Jobs – published today – provides the most comprehensive guide to the UK labour market, drawing on original survey data provided by recruitment consultancies. |
| 05/10/2011 | Helen Dickinson, KPMG’s head of retail comments on today’s interim results by retailers Tesco and Sainsbury: |
| 04/10/2011 | Richard Threlfall, KPMG’s UK head of infrastructure, building and construction comments on the latest Markit/CIPS Construction Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) data |
| 04/10/2011 | KPMG today welcomed the FSA’s announcement that it has revised its assumed implementation dates for Solvency II in light of European discussions on Omnibus 2. |
| 03/10/2011 | KPMG announces the purchase of Xantus, one of the leading independent management consultancies in the UK specialising in IT advisory services. |
| 03/10/2011 | The vast majority of senior executives worldwide say their organizations have already moved at least some business activities to the Cloud and expect 2012 investment to skyrocket, according to KPMG’s global cloud study |
| 30/09/2011 | Third quarter management buyout activity has seen a dramatic drop in the average size of deals to £80m; compared with £140m in the second quarter of 2011 and comparable with the first quarter of 2009 |
| 30/09/2011 | KPMG has been ranked as the only ‘Big 4’ professional services firm in the ‘Top 10 Employers for Working Families’ by the independent benchmarking and award organisation, Working Families. |
| 30/09/2011 | KPMG is pleased to announce the appointment of Stephen Bonner as a Partner in KPMG’s Information Protection and Business Resilience business. |
| 30/09/2011 | With just a year to go before auto enrolment becomes compulsory for large employers, KPMG is warning that businesses that have not already begun to plan for this major change need to take action fast |
| 29/09/2011 | The UK has the 4th highest top rate of personal income tax in the EU, according to the latest KPMG International Individual Income Tax and Social Security Rate Survey. |
| 29/09/2011 | KPMG, the global network of professional firms providing audit, tax and advisory services, has been ranked second for two years running on Universum’s 2011 index of “The World’s Most Attractive Employers”. |
| 28/09/2011 | Commenting on the European Commission’s decision to officially back a Financial Transaction Tax (FTT), Tom Aston, financial services tax partner at KPMG commented: |
| 28/09/2011 | Glynn Bellamy, Partner in KPMG’s Aerospace and Defence practice comments on Boeing’s 787 Dreamliner and its benefits to the UK supply chain: |
| 27/09/2011 | Despite recent market volatility almost doubling UK FTSE 100 pension deficits to bring them to approximately £70 billion, the outlook for FTSE 100 companies on pensions is broadly positive, according to KPMG’s 2011 Pensions Repayment Monitor |
| 27/09/2011 | The European Council has now agreed a position on Omnibus 2 as detailed in the accompanying paper to the redraft issued late last week. |
| 23/09/2011 | The Private Client practice at KPMG in the UK has won “Accountancy Firm of the Year” at the prestigious STEP (Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners’) Awards held on 15 September |
| 22/09/2011 | John Leech, Partner in KPMG’s Automotive practice comments on the SMMT car production figures |
| 22/09/2011 | Thames Clippers announced today that KPMG, Europe’s foremost accountancy and professional services organisation, will have exclusive sponsorship rights to its expanding scheduled commuter service. |
| 22/09/2011 | Richard Threlfall, KPMG’s UK head of infrastructure, building and construction comments on the Government’s announcement to earmark a GBP500m funding pool to help develop local infrastructure across the country |
| 22/09/2011 | Richard Threlfall, UK head for infrastructure, building and construction comments on the debate of whether NHS trusts are “at risk” from PFI costs: |
| 22/09/2011 | Dr. Ashley Steel, KPMG’s global head for transport comments on the economic impact of “hub airports”: |
| 21/09/2011 | 2011 will be remembered as an exceptional year for the insurance industry, with record losses in the catastrophe market and key players posting losses in their half-year statements. |
| 21/09/2011 | The announcement of a £400m investment in an engine plant near Wolverhampton, which is projected to create over 750 new jobs, is a huge vote of confidence by Tata in the Jaguar and Land Rover brands. |
| 21/09/2011 | Richard Threlfall, KPMG’s UK head of infrastructure, building and construction comments ahead of Nick Clegg’s closing speech at today’s Lib Dem party conference: |
| 20/09/2011 | Large global manufacturers are setting their sights on top-line growth over the next two years |
| 19/09/2011 | Board level interest in anti-money laundering (‘AML’) is being squeezed by other priorities, according to KPMG’s Global AML survey 2011 |
| 19/09/2011 | KPMG is to double its school leaver intake in 2012, the firm announces today, following the successful launch of its new School Leaver Programme. |
| 14/09/2011 | The joint administrators of Aero Inventory have announced today the launch of aeroinv.com, a multi-hundred-million dollar aircraft parts ecommerce business. |
| 14/09/2011 | Richard Threlfall, KPMG’s UK head of infrastructure, building and construction comments on Nick Clegg’s speech on the economy and the need for more infrastructure investment: |
| 14/09/2011 | Spending in Britain’s leading pub and restaurant groups grew marginally in August – despite the effects of the rioting that hit many parts of London and other major cities. |
| 14/09/2011 | Helen Dickinson, KPMG’s head of retail comments on the opening of Westfield Stratford City: |
| 12/09/2011 | KPMG has announced the appointment of Ann Davies and Lee Swinerd to its Turnaround and Cash team, within the Transactions & Restructuring practice. |
| 12/09/2011 | The ICB recommendations are only one small step short of full Glass-Steagal separation of retail and investment banking in calling for operational, economic and legal separation |
| 12/09/2011 | Integrated Reporting provides a potential new source of competitive advantage for business in the search for capital at a reasonable cost according to a new paper from KPMG |
| 09/09/2011 | The Government must act now to attract vital new investment into the UK’s ageing infrastructure. |
| 09/09/2011 | Ahead of Monday’s final report from the Independent Commission on Banking (ICB), Giles Williams, head of KPMG’s Regulatory Centre of Excellence in Europe, commented |
| 07/09/2011 | Further moderate increases in permanent placements and temporary billings, growth of vacancies continues to ease, weakest rise in permanent salaries for 22 months |
| 07/09/2011 | European chemical companies have called the end of the downturn in their market and are now on an aggressive growth drive |
| 06/09/2011 | “The rise in new car sales of 7.3% to almost 60,000 units in August is a welcome cheer but it is September’s plate-change figures that are the health barometer of the new car market. |
| 06/09/2011 | UK retail sales values were 0.6% lower on a like-for-like basis from August 2010, when sales had risen 1.0%. On a total basis, sales were up 1.5%, against a 2.8% increase in August 2010. |
| 06/09/2011 | Over three quarters (78%) of UK IT security professionals do not have insurance, or do not know if their organisations are insured against e-crime legal costs. |
| 29/08/2011 | Twenty-five years after the Building Societies Act 1986 came into force the outlook for the UK’s building societies which remained mutual is still highly competitive. |
| 25/08/2011 | Paul Harrison, Tax Partner and Head of Tax investigations at KPMG in the UK comments on the agreement between the UK and Swiss tax authorities: |
| 25/08/2011 | KPMG gave a qualified welcome to today’s proposed amendments to consolidation requirements issued by the International Accounting Standards Board. |
| 19/08/2011 | 20th August marks 100 days until the United Nations Conference on Climate Change in Durban, South Africa. Vincent Neate, who leads KPMG’s UK Climate Change & Sustainability practice, looks at what the challenges and achievements might be |
| 18/08/2011 | Healthcare mergers can be a valuable tool to drive sustainable clinical and financial outcomes but need to be performed in a structured and professional way to reap real benefits. |
| 17/08/2011 | “Enhanced Transfer Value” (or “ETV”) exercises* have grown increasingly common as a tool for employers to manage their pension risks and their use is set to increase, according to a survey by the Pensions Team at KPMG in the UK. |
| 17/08/2011 | KPMG’s UK Banks Performance Benchmarking Report suggests that the next six months will remain challenging for banks as they face uncertainty over future growth streams and additional costs from regulation. |
| 16/08/2011 | Consumer spending in pub and restaurant groups grew in July – showing that the British public is still prepared to go out to eat and drink. |
| 16/08/2011 | The retail industry must work together on creating a guide for compiling like-for-like sales figures, or risk the measurement becoming obsolete, according to the KPMG/Synovate Retail Think Tank. |
| 15/08/2011 | UK pension funds are choosing to spread their liability matching assets across a very small number of fund managers, according to research issued by KPMG’s Investment Advisory Group. |
| 15/08/2011 | The employment recovery is set to slow sharply, according to this summer’s Labour Market Outlook survey of over 1,000 employers from the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) and KPMG. |
| 12/08/2011 | The Internal Revenue Service (IRS), the tax authority in the US, has issued a Revenue Ruling (Revenue Ruling 2011-19) confirming that US taxpayers can claim credit for the remittance basis charge. |
| 11/08/2011 | Half of GPs in England are actively involved in commissioning decisions of their consortia and are taking steps to prepare for their role as commissioners, according to a survey by advisory firm KPMG and Ipsos Mori. |
| 11/08/2011 | “In many respects incidents such as these highlight the importance for general insurance to safeguard against unforeseen events. This will also serve as a reminder to consumers of the need to understand the fine print of their policies."
|
| 10/08/2011 | The insurance industry needs to engage more actively with policymakers regarding the future regulatory framework for the industry as it inevitable that some insurers will be classified as systemically important financial institutions (SIFIs). |
| 10/08/2011 | In response to the Bank of England’s August Inflation Report, which pointed to continued above target inflation but weaker growth, Andrew Smith, Chief Economist at KPMG in the UK said… |
| 10/08/2011 | KPMG’s UK Investment Advisory practice (“KPMG”) has been appointed as investment advisers to the Trustees of the Lloyd’s Register Superannuation Fund Association (“the Fund”). |
| 09/08/2011 | Retailers report the value of their sales for the current period and the equivalent period a year ago. These figures are reported both in total and on a ‘like-for-like’ basis. |
| 08/08/2011 | KPMG to increase hiring targets to support global growth strategy |
| 05/08/2011 | Costs of going bankrupt increasingly unaffordable |
| 05/08/2011 | The latest statistics from the Insolvency Service have shown a meaningful drop of 11% in the number of administrations for the second quarter of 2011, compared with the first quarter of the year (from 782 to 695). |
| 04/08/2011 | Earlier forecasts that car sales would end this year down by around 5% are starting look optimistic with the latest monthly figures showing the market is down by 6.7% year-to-date. |
| 04/08/2011 | For the vast majority of transport companies in Europe and the Middle East sustainability and environmental issues are currently less important business priorities, a survey from advisory firm KPMG has found. |
| 03/08/2011 | The Recruitment and Employment Confederation (REC) and KPMG Report on Jobs – published today – provides the most comprehensive guide to the UK labour market |
| 03/08/2011 | KPMG’s Digital Media Specialist, Mark Harding comments on today’s announcement by Business Secretary Vince Cable to scrap plans to block websites that host copyright infringing material |
| 02/08/2011 | UK firms have failed to create a culture of cost consciousness within their organisations despite three years of cost-cutting and uncertainty – threatening to reverse the savings made during recession |
| 02/08/2011 | Responding to yesterday’s FSA policy statement on platforms and the Retail Distribution Review (RDR) |
| 02/08/2011 | A new survey by KPMG finds that changing business operations to become more cost efficient is the number one priority for nearly half (48 percent) of automotive companies across Europe and the Middle East. |
| 01/08/2011 | Med Hotels appeal win: a “key decision” for the travel sector, says KPMG |
| 01/08/2011 | A KPMG report, entitled Bruised but not broken, predicts that global banking M&A activity will continue to be largely locally focused and big-ticket M&A transactions are unlikely to return for at least two years. |
| 29/07/2011 | ‘Zombie’ companies – businesses with low or no profitability which are accordingly unable to generate sufficient cash flow to repay borrowings – are an increasing problem, according to latest research from KPMG. |
| 29/07/2011 | KPMG notes the provisional decision of the Office of Fair Trading to refer the market for statutory audit services to large companies to the Competition Commission. |
| 29/07/2011 | The state of retail health, as measured by the Retail Health Index (RHI), fell in quarter 2, sinking a further point to 84, as predicted during the RTT’s April sitting |
| 26/07/2011 | Malcolm Edge is concerned that while investment from business is urgently needed to provide the stimulus for growth, more needs to be done before corporates will release funds. |
| 25/07/2011 | Favourable pricing conditions, increasing affordability and a fear that looming “Solvency II” regulations may make buy-ins more difficult and expensive have driven pensions buy-ins in the last 12 months |
| 25/07/2011 | Michael Andrew, Chairman-elect of KPMG International, has announced KPMG’s new leadership team. |
| 21/07/2011 | KPMG welcomes 154 interns from across the UK to join its Vacation Programme this year. The paid internship scheme is designed to let university students discover more about KPMG and the work it undertakes for clients. |
| 20/07/2011 | Economic fundamentals underpinning the UK energy policy are in need of review, according to a report published by KPMG and the Economic Policy Centre (‘EPC’). |
| 20/07/2011 | As expected there are few surprises in the substance of the Directive which is based on the Basel 3 package. The major sticking point will undoubtedly be around maximum harmonisation |
| 18/07/2011 | Ahead of the Capital Requirements Directive (CRD 4) final text, KPMG's Giles Williams, said: “It is unlikely that there will be any surprises in the substance of the Directive, given it is based on the Basel 3 package." |
| 18/07/2011 | KPMG in Jordan has announced that it is joining KPMG Europe LLP. |
| 18/07/2011 | Confidence in the UK deal market has taken a knock since the beginning of the year, according to the latest ‘Global M&A Predictor’ report from KPMG. |
| 13/07/2011 | Senior local authority executives support Government proposals to enable them to appoint their own auditors, according to a survey by KPMG, and believe that such proposals will enable them to gain better value for money. |
| 12/07/2011 | The majority of business leaders in Europe and the Middle East (64 percent) agree that Europe’s position as a world economic and political superpower has peaked and that its importance will decline over coming years, |
| 12/07/2011 | UK retail sales values were 0.6% lower on a like-for-like basis from June 2010, when sales had risen 1.2%. On a total basis, sales were up 1.5%, against a 3.4% increase in June 2010. |
| 11/07/2011 | Pre-occupied with battling the on-going downturn, UK businesses now also find themselves fighting more fraud than ever before – KPMG reveals today. |
| 11/07/2011 | A mix of energy generation which has a low or no nuclear contribution could send the price of electricity generation in 2050 up from around £75/MW to as much as £120/MW, according to a report prepared by KPMG |
| 11/07/2011 | Alan Downey, head of KPMG’s public sector business, comments on the Government’s “Open Public Services” White Paper: |
| 05/07/2011 | Colin Haig and Samantha Bewick of KPMG were appointed administrators to Bridge Business Recovery on 1st July 2011 |
| 04/07/2011 | KPMG is pleased to announce that Neil D Miller has joined as global head of Islamic finance. Neil joins from the law firm Norton Rose where he led their global Islamic finance practice. |
| 01/07/2011 | Despite the crescendoing noise and continued speculation around the Bribery Act, a third of all UK companies remain unprepared for today’s implementation, risking a jail sentence or unlimited fine. |
| 01/07/2011 | The mega private equity deal is back in the UK, according to the latest management buyout (MBO) research from KPMG. |
| 30/06/2011 | The Home Secretary today praised KPMG’s work with the Police Service. |
| 30/06/2011 | KPMG has announced the appointment of James Stewart OBE, recently chief executive of Infrastructure UK (IUK), as chairman of its global infrastructure practice. |
| 30/06/2011 | HM Treasury’s proposals on reforming the ‘Controlled Foreign Companies’ regime issued today are largely successful in striking the very difficult balance between delivering a more competitive tax system |
| 29/06/2011 | KPMG’s report, Focus on Transparency, finds that retail and commercial banking performance has improved amidst growing emerging market activity and economic recovery, while investment banking revenues were off very slightly by 2% to €121 billion. |
| 29/06/2011 | UK police leaders are meeting today to discuss how the police service can respond to the government’s ambitious reform programme at the same time as coping with budget reductions. |
| 28/06/2011 | KPMG warns that unless there is a more co-ordinated approach to the regulation of the investment management industry in Europe and the US, businesses will increasingly look to move their operations to Asia. |
| 28/06/2011 | A report from KPMG examining the investment management industry’s readiness for the US Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA) reveals that a significant amount of work remains to be done prior to its commencement on 1 January 2013. |
| 28/06/2011 | Asset management CEOs believe their organisations will need to become more agile if they are to remain relevant to clients and grow profitably. |
| 28/06/2011 | Global companies are doing little more than ‘flipping a coin’ when it comes to enhancing value through doing deals in the emerging markets of the Asia Pacific (ASPAC) region, according to KPMG’s latest global M&A study ‘A new dawn’. |
| 27/06/2011 | Misha Patel has become the first in-house lawyer from KPMG to be named in the prestigious Management Today ‘35 Women Under 35’ list |
| 24/06/2011 | While welcoming the restoration of a one year period for industry between the final rules being made and implementation, KPMG cautions that this is not an end to the uncertainty that surrounds Solvency II. |
| 22/06/2011 | More London firms are hiring as normal and fewer are resorting to redundancies compared with six months ago, as companies are cautiously optimistic about business prospects |
| 20/06/2011 | Company bosses including those working within the chief executive or managing director’s offices are increasingly committing more fraud, according to a global KPMG survey. |
| 20/06/2011 | A revised draft of the Omnibus II Directive was issued on 14 June 2011, which includes specific transitional arrangements for (re)insurance companies in run-off under Solvency II. |
| 20/06/2011 | The new Financial Services Transfer Pricing and Indirect Tax team comprises around 50 people drawn from KPMG’s existing transfer pricing and indirect tax teams in the UK. |
| 17/06/2011 | HM Treasury has today published consultation documents on a new statutory residence test and proposed reforms to the taxation of non-UK domiciled individuals |
| 16/06/2011 | Today the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) issued its long awaited revised pensions accounting standard IAS 19 Employee Benefits. |
| 15/06/2011 | A unique community of UK turnaround investors has emerged since the dawn of the recession and has invested nearly £1bn in distressed companies in the UK in the last 12 months, according to research by KPMG. |
| 15/06/2011 | Commenting on the Chancellor’s endorsement of retail banks ringfencing their operations, David Sayer, global head of retail banking at KPMG, said: |
| 15/06/2011 | KPMG has received a Highly Commended in the Business Team Volunteering Award in the Business in the Community East of England 2011 Awards for Excellence at a ceremony held at Hengrave Hall, Bury St Edmunds. |
| 13/06/2011 | KPMG’s latest Media and Entertainment Barometer released today reveals the sharp increase and uptake of smartphones and tablets, driving expenditure and consumption of ‘on the move’ media, most notably, eBooks. |
| 13/06/2011 | Mark Powell, UK head of energy consulting, KPMG, comments on the OPEC discussion on increasing supplies to dampen prices in the face of rising consumer utilities bills |
| 13/06/2011 | Patent box consultation “very positive” for affected businesses, but some, notably the software industry, will be disappointed |
| 10/06/2011 | KPMG is pleased to announce the appointment of Giles Triffitt as a Risk Director in its financial risk management division. |
| 09/06/2011 | Government’s announcement to release public land in order to build as many as 100,000 new homes |
| 09/06/2011 | MPC interest rate decision June 2011: Decision to hold means rate rise this year is unlikely |
| 08/06/2011 | A key emerging feature of the current public sector recession is a significant rise in external investment in local government, according to KPMG |
| 08/06/2011 | KPMG has acted as lead adviser to Ford Motor Company in its successful formation of a joint venture with Russian automobile company Sollers OJSC |
| 06/06/2011 | KPMG in the UK has appointed David O’Hara from Hymans Robertson as a Principal Investment Consultant to lead its newly established Scottish Investment Advisory team |
| 06/06/2011 | Advisors from KPMG’s Gatwick office have advised German Linder Group on the acquisition of Surrey based Prater Ltd, the UK’s leading building envelope specialist on a deal in which they were sold for an undisclosed sum |
| 01/06/2011 | KPMG predicts that many hedge funds are not taking advantage of available R&D tax credits which could potentially save their businesses hundreds of thousands of pounds a year |
| 01/06/2011 | With the introduction of the UK Bribery Act now less than a month away, the majority of U.K. compliance executives say bribery and corruption remains part of doing business in some countries |
| 31/05/2011 | Using its KLean data quality tool, KPMG has analysed over 100,000 occupational pension scheme member record to reveal some worrying findings. |
| 27/05/2011 | Local government will undergo dramatic change in the next few years, driven by agendas of austerity and localism. The best councils may prove to be very different to the present according to a new KPMG report |
| 26/05/2011 | KPMG has appointed Rees Aronson as the new head of financial services audit in the UK. Rees has been a partner with KPMG since 1989 and also sits on the insurance leadership team as head of insurance audit. |
| 26/05/2011 | Very few organisations are ready to meet new EU requirements on website cookies, according to KPMG's George Thompson. |
| 24/05/2011 | After last year’s ash cloud and the unprecedented closure of European airspace aviation regulators have issued much clearer guidelines for flying. |
| 24/05/2011 | UK law firms have seen an increase in financial services disputes post August 2007, up 33 per cent, according to global KPMG research, however, the expected large-scale growth of disputes has yet to happen both here and across the world. |
| 23/05/2011 | UK residents owning property in France are likely to see an increase in the French taxes they pay from 1 January 2012, according to KPMG in the UK as a result of two key changes.
|
| 20/05/2011 | Fraud against the UK Government has risen dramatically (142 per cent) over the last three years, as criminals adopt an increasingly businesslike approach – KPMG reveals today. |
| 19/05/2011 | KPMG’s Pensions Accounting Survey 2011 reveals a more positive picture emerging on pensions for UK companies than has been seen in previous years. |
| 19/05/2011 | The FSA and Bank of England today launched a detailed plan about the shape of the Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA). |
| 18/05/2011 | The impact on the overall labour market of a slight rise in private sector recruitment, fuelled almost exclusively by the manufacturing and services sectors, is still being cancelled out by large-scale public sector job losses |
| 18/05/2011 | a report published by KPMG finds there is still significant divergence among European regulators in their approaches to implementing the Pillar 2 guidance on capital adequacy. |
| 17/05/2011 | KPMG has welcomed the new flexible working proposals put forward by the Government today |
| 03/05/2011 | Omnibus 2 is a significant milestone for Solvency II and delays to its finalisation are having an unwanted impact on the Solvency II timeline. |
| 15/03/2011 | KPMG welcomes yesterday’s publication of the results of QIS 5, the fifth European-wide quantitative impact study on the forthcoming Solvency II rules for the insurance industry. |
| 22/02/2011 | KPMG to provide broader global outsourcing advisory services through acquisition of EquaTerra |
|
|
|
