Consulting news and trends

UK Moves To Split Audit And Consulting Profits At Big Four
Regulation // July 06, 2020

The Big Four accounting firms will have to put their United Kingdom auditing and consulting practices in separate business units by 2024, but may keep them within the same parent companies, under regulations announced today by the Financial Reporting Council. The measures by the U.K.’s...

New World Payments Report Released By Capgemini, BNP Paribas
Payment Methods // September 26, 2016

Global digital payment volume is slated to hit a new high this year of 426.3 billion transactions. That’s according to Capgemini and BNP Paribas, which recently released new research through the 2016 World Payments Report (WPR). Paris-headquarterd Capgemini, a consulting and technology firm, has headlined...

Levvel Buys PayStream In Push For B2B Payments Expertise
B2B Payments // August 22, 2016

Levvel has announced plans to acquire PayStream Advisors in a bid to boost its B2B payments expertise, the firm said. Reports late last week said Levvel, an IT consulting firm, reached a deal to acquire financial advisory and research group PayStream Advisors. In a statement, Levvel...

Digital River Goes Deeper With Its Professional Services
Merchant Innovation // May 04, 2015

In the realm of global professional services, Digital River is expanding its flow. The eCommerce and payments services company announced this week that it has enhanced its services globally in two parts: by adding a deeper level of strategic consulting for custom eCommerce implementations and...

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Mastercard Adds AI and Economics to Consulting Practice

October 23, 2023
Artificial intelligence (AI) is seemingly everywhere, while the macroeconomic environment is constantly in flux. With those things in mind, Mastercard has expanded its consulting business to include practices dealing with AI and economics, the payments giant announced Monday (Oct. 23), while also enhancing Digital Labs, its business transformation service. “With the democratization of generative AI and a complex economic […]

Digital River Goes Deeper With Its Professional Services

May 04, 2015
In the realm of global professional services, Digital River is expanding its flow. The eCommerce and payments services company announced this week that it has enhanced its services globally in...