One objective of the European Market Infrastructure Regulation is to lower the risk of contagion in the financial system, and in doing so promote an efficient and transparent derivatives market.

You hang up the phone and realise that this is the third time this week that this client has called for investment advice but hasn't invested anything.

Tangible assets are typically a significant part of the balance sheet, so reclassifying them is often delicate work—made all the more so by the huge financial statement errors that doing it wrongly can cause.

In fact, there isn't just one big deal, but several little deals, and this is exactly why this standard is so complex. With each page you turn and brochure you read, another exception, complexity...

In den letzten Jahren ist eine stetige Verlagerung von Fondsvermögen aus aktiv gemanagten Fondsstrategien zu passiven Strategien zu beobachten.

On 13 October, the CSSF published Circular 17/670 on the assessment of knowledge and competence in the framework of the MiFID II Directive

On 30 July 2019, the Commission de Surveillance du Secteur Financier (CSSF) published a FAQ on the topic of swing pricing mechanism.

The recently published delegated regulation on Solvency II is an important one: if passed, it would allow insurers to remove disincentives for long-term investments

Bilanztechnisch ist unser Staat eine Frittenbude" – spätestens mit diesem Zitat hatte Prof. Dr. Bernd Raffelhüschen den Saal im Frankfurter Palmengarten im Rahmen der Investmentfondstage der Börsen-Zeitung 2016 im Griff.

Unclear tax treatments are headaches for any executive, but for accountants they are especially annoying: this is because varying treatments mean varying accounting

As tax specialists will already know, operational taxes are a crucial area for compliance matters nowadays.

The first-ever Benelux version of the Insurance Systems Survey is out, looking at insurance technology trends throughout the Benelux region.

Cloud computing is perhaps not as headline-grabby as blockchain or machine learning, but it's just as revolutionary.

Real estate valuations are not simple: many items must be considered by valuators and other real estate players.

Anyone familiar with the concept of market intelligence would be able to tell you dozens of different names for it: competitive intelligence, market research, marketing intelligence, knowledge management...

1954 marked a milestone in the history when, in Edina, Minnesota, construction began on the first-ever modern-era shopping mall.

The European Banking Authority's (EBA) opinion on the preparations for the withdrawal of the United Kingdom (UK) from the European Union (EU)

All public interest entities have to tender when required – there is no exception to the rule.

Mandatory Disclosure Rules (MDR) emerged following the OECD's ambitious anti-tax avoidance project on Base Erosion and Profit Shifting (BEPS) launched in 2015.

The KPMG Hub for Entrepreneurship (or "Khube") is a department set up solely to seek out and support start-up companies, primarily FinTechs.