Insights for Global Business Professionals

Financial Highlights from the Recent Week You Should Know About: The reality is knowledge workers (including financial professionals) ARE going to lose jobs to AI.Here’s what you can do to…

CONSULTING PwC Scales Back Operations in More Than a Dozen Countries to Avoid Scandals PwC has closed operations in over a dozen countries, including nine in Africa, as part of…

CONSULTING Pentagon cancels $5.1 billion in consulting contracts with Accenture, Deloitte, etc The Pentagon is cancelling IT consulting contracts worth $5.1 billion with Accenture, Deloitte and Booz Allen Hamilton among…

MARKETS Are You Tired of Hearing the Word “Tariffs” Now? The global trade war of 2025 got very ugly this past week. All major stock indices were feeling the pain…

QUANTUM FINANCE JP Morgan’s Quantum Experiment JP Morgan announced the results of an experiment they’ve been conducting using a quantum computer, the experiment yielded “truly random” numbers generated by a…

COMPLIANCE KPMG Launches Law Firm in US KPMG has been given permission by the Arizona Supreme Court to start its own law firm in the U.S., called KPMG Law. This…

CAPITAL MARKETS JPMorgan Re-Classifies Qatar and Kuwait as Developed Markets JPMorgan has re-classifed Qatar and Kuwait as developed markets instead of emerging markets in their Emeging-Markets Bond Index. The re-classification…

CONSULTING Is This the Beginning of the End of the Consulting Model? KPMG UK partners saw record profits and pay, yet slashed 1266 jobs. However, revenue barely grew 1%. Is…

AI Your Next In-House Legal Assistant Could Be an AI Agent LexisNexis, the legal information provider, introduced Protégé, a new AI-powered legal assistant designed to help lawyers with tasks like…

MARKETS Earnings Winners & Losers Both Mastercard and Visa were earnings winners beating earnings forecasts due to a robust holiday spending season. While Deutsche Bank was the loser who saw…