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CoinspeakerKPMG: 39% of Canada’s Institutional Investors Have Exposure to Crypto The KPMG report shows that Canadian institutional investors who would hold crypto directly have increased to 75% in 2023, against 29% in 2021. KPMG: 39% of Canada’s Institutional Investors Have Exposure to Crypto

The announcement of KPMG Canada’s partnership with Chainalysis coincides with broader industry efforts to tackle fraud associated with crypto. The KPMG Canada has announced a strategic partnership with blockchain analytics firm Chainalysis in response to the escalating threats of exploits and fraud within the crypto sector. Kunal Bhasin, Partner and Cryptoassets and Blockchain Co-leader at KPMG Canada, emphasized that “this collaboration will help to further solidify KPMG’s expertise in...

Despite the raging impact of inflation in different economies, monetary authorities have not been sitting on their oars, rather, they have been fighting the surge through consistent interest rate hikes. The Hong Kong Initial Public Offering (IPO) market has failed to get lifted from its dampened sentiment after the listing of Chinese liquor company ZJLD Group failed relatively. As reported by CNBC, the shares of ZJLD Group tumbled as hard as 18% on its first day of trading back on April...

Blockchain and IoT will manage climate change. This is what the KPMG blockchain lead believes. Arun Gosh has made a few blockchain predictions. Gosh has said that the interconnected ecosystem of devices called the Internet of Things (IoT) will work alongside blockchain solutions to solve the many issues that climate change has brought to the table. He said:“The convergence of these technologies is enabling organizations to accelerate environmental governance, with blockchain’s chain of...

Beijing-Shanghai High-Speed Railway Co. is said to kick off its initial public offering on January 6, 2020. This will be the first IPO, where investors will be able to buy shares in what we can call the world’s largest network of this kind.The operator of China’s high-speed rail line between Beijing and Shanghai is a unit of state-owned China Railway Corp. It said to sell as many as 6.3 billion new shares, or 12.8% of enlarged capital, through the listing in Shanghai. Still, the company...

Financial Technology (FinTech) has been the talk of the town this year and will continue to remain the next year as well! Big Tech companies like Google, Apple, Facebook, etc. have already pulled up their socks to grab a considerable share in the evolving financial space.Furthermore, 2019 has been a good year witnessing significant growth in awareness and exposure for FinTech startups and companies. Besides, the industry has also managed to attract massive funding for the development of...

On Monday, November 18, the big-four auditing giant KPMG unveiled its ranking for the top 100 companies in FinTech for 2019. The report shows that the Chinese and Asia-Pacific regions have dominated the rankings.Alibaba‘s payments wing Ant Financial topped the 2019 FinTech100 KPMG rankings. Last year in 2018, the payments and transactions companies dominated the rankings along with other companies from the insurance, wealth management, and lending sector. Another observation from the report...

Today most of the weapons are software-based and intricately networked. As IoT and cloud computing, as well as connectivity, have increased, hard to detect cyber threats have evolved. Cybersecurity is even more critical in military-dedicated networks. The challenge in the information age is to repeal attacks from multiple sources, proactively react and prepare for any contingencies.Modern warfare will include new technologies like Artificial Intelligence (AI), blockchain and big data as...