
Global M&A trends in financial services: 2025 outlook
Cautious optimism for an uptick in financial services M&A activity in 2025 as megadeals return and deal values rise.
Cautious optimism for an uptick in financial services M&A activity in 2025 as megadeals return and deal values rise.
New ways in which investors and users interact with the built environment will spur real estate M&A activity in 2025.
AWM leaders can no longer delay their transformation efforts as socio-economic, investment and funding disruption sweep aside old ways of doing business.
This publication gives investors and fund managers an overview of year-end considerations and important issues in real estate taxation in 36 tax systems worldwide
The 2024 Global Crypto Hedge Fund Report examines the current state and evolution of the crypto hedge fund market over the past year.
Increasing pressure on financial services companies to transform and grow will create M&A opportunities in the second half of 2024.
Broader asset classes, growth in private credit and a focus on value creation create optimism for an uptrend in real estate M&A.
Welcome to the fifteenth edition of PwC’s Global Insurance Run-off Survey.
Financial services M&A will continue to be challenging in 2024, but the need for financial institutions to transform should give dealmakers greater optimism.
Real estate is entering a new phase, with strategic adjustment, transformation and sustainability as priorities- creating optimism for M&A in 2024.
Discover how financial services organisations are moving forward with generative AI in the race to enhance efficiency, customer experience, and services.
Reconfiguring the industrial system to avoid the worst consequences of climate change will take audacity and practicality.
This publication gives investors and fund managers an overview of year-end considerations and important issues in real estate taxation in 36 tax systems worldwide
Welcome to the fifteenth edition of PwC’s Global Insurance Run-off Survey.
Our global real estate network comprises of people and teams with hands-on experience at the very top of the industry. Real Estate Going Global provides you with a summary of the tax and legal aspects of real estate investments from 53 countries.
This publication covers the real estate transfer tax (RETT) regimes in 17 territories. As there is no harmonization of the RETT regimes, the tax basis, rates and exemptions are diverse and sometimes complicated.
Financial institutions must position themselves within a wider network of partners as they adapt to growing demand for frictionless financial services.
Technological innovation and business disruptions are changing the landscape for embedded finance players. Growth depends on the ability to manage new risks.
As consumers’ appetite for frictionless financial services increases, discover how embedded finance is outperforming common assumptions.
Discover the exciting opportunities that lie ahead for the ETF industry with our latest publication, ETFs 2027: A world of new possibilities. Explore the latest trends and innovations that will shape the future of investing in exchange-traded funds.
Emerging Trends in Real Estate® 2023, undertaken jointly by PwC and the Urban Land Institute, provides a global outlook on real estate investment.
This booklet seeks to compare more than 40 different types of fund vehicles in 20 European countries in a summary form, by looking at a consistent set of key topics, and noting major pros and cons.
Getting proactive about the transformation agenda: Unlocking growth in an evolving market
Asset and wealth management revolution 2022: Exponential expectations for ESG
Five scenarios for the future of retail banking. Five future-facing scenarios that help retail banks prepare for a rapidly changing environment.
Five key trends influencing the industry and five strategic imperatives insurers should consider as they rethink their strategies and plan for the future.
Key industry findings from the Global Emerging Trends in Real Estate report, produced in conjunction with ULI, based on interviews from global real estate leaders assessing investor sentiment.
Gabi Carvalho of Egon Zehnder, speaks with PwC’s Mohib Yousufani on the identification of internal talent, external leadership, and change management.
The global ETF market has built up phenomenal momentum over the past five years. The COVID-19 pandemic has further reinforced and highlighted ETFs’ remarkable resilience and growth potential. Having steered through the market uncertainty and volatility of 2020 and 2021, ETFs are emerging from the crisis stronger than...
To emerge stronger from the crisis, European banks must radically transform their cost base, streamline their operations and consider mergers, including cross-border deals, more seriously.
Welcome to the fourteenth edition of PwC’s Global Insurance Run-off Survey.
Eighteen insurance companies participated in this survey from the end of April to the beginning of June 2021, including some of the largest insurers in the world.
This booklet will keep you up to speed and allow you to compare the various global REIT regimes in 30 countries.
The payments industry is shifting towards cashless payments, and inclusion is a key priority.
COVID-19 disrupted financial services, ending positive credit cycle & ensuring low rates. Upskill workforce for competitive advantage & productivity.
Welcome to the thirteenth edition of PwC’s Global Insurance Run-off Survey. The growth in legacy activity predicted in the last edition of this survey has materialised and the market has maintained its momentum.
Be a part of the conversation. Interact with executives from across the globe in a virtual forum. Connect on relevant financial services topics.
Digital assets are a new and rapidly evolving asset class.
In contrast to the GFC, COVID-19 triggered initial impacts in the real economy and will increasingly manifest itself in a second stage throughout FS.
The variety of technology platforms and applications that firms use to manage data can make optimising it difficult.
This paper details the position of AWMs on Day One after Brexit, anticipation of operating models changing further in months/years to follow.
In this report, we’ll explain our findings and offer advice on what Asset and wealth management firms can do to begin their transformation.
In this year’s Global Fintech Survey, we polled more than 500 financial services and TMT executives worldwide and analysed their responses.
In this report, we explore opportunities for digital upskilling across Financial Services sectors and in different regions across the globe. We explain how digital transformation has generated a strong demand for new competencies, and describe the resulting talent strategies among leading Finance Services companies.
Assist you in developing the technical and commercial skills within your business to successfully implement IFRS 17.
5 Things you need to know on the new FATF AML rules for Crypto Exchanges and Custodians.
Large banks around the world each spend as much as US$88 million a year collecting and storing data from corporate clients — information they are obliged to gather in order to comply with anti-money laundering (AML) regulations. Yet this activity brings no competitive advantage.
PwC’s 2019 RPA survey report provides insights into the current and future landscape of RPA within the actuarial function.
Vendors are more ready now than they were six months ago. If you make sure you understand what IFRS 17 requires of your systems and find the vendor with the capabilities you need, you’ll stay on track for a successful changeover.
For Antonio Huertas Mejías, chief executive officer of the MAPFRE insurance company, economic growth aligns with making a sustainable contribution to the wider community.
Ann Prendergast, State Street Global Advisors (SSGA), speaks with PwC's J.Stadtler on addressing retirement issues and technology in business.
In 2014, Piyush Gupta, CEO of DBS Bank of Singapore, asked his staff to think like the employees of a fintech startup and build the digital capabilities they would need to succeed.
Michael Peters, COO Europe of Allianz Global Investors, takes a few minutes with PwC Germany's Sonja Panter, to talk about active investment strategies to deliver client value.
This paper examines what it means for the three lines of defense: development testing, validation and audit—to work together on IFRS 17 implementation.
IFRS 17 represents the most significant change in accounting standards in over 20 years. It introduces new liability measurement models with..
Three ISDA-provided alternatives for developing a credit spread adjustment to account for the bank credit risk premium in various IBORs.
What's holding women back in FS and how can this be overcome? In 2018, we surveyed 290 professional women aged between 28 and 40 who are working in FS about their aspirations, how they feel about their prospects for advancement and what they see as potential obstacles to successful careers.
Insurance companies have less than three years to adopt IFRS 17 but a soft design approach can help.
Organizations must begin now to prepare for and manage the transition from LIBOR to alternative reference rates by the end of 2021.
Since it was issued in January, 2013, BCBS 239 has had profound effects in the banking industry. The BCBS has called out banks and supervisors alike.
How insurance could be a major beneficiary of the technology.
Our interactive, user friendly platform providing key financial crime information and contact details for PwC professionals globally.
Reinsurers are in line to build some of the biggest blockchain applications outside the payments sector, opening up a $5-10 billion cost saving opportunity.
Competition between banks and new entrants may give way to direct cooperation across the FinTech ecosystem. Opportunities exist for partnership and cooperation that would leverage each other's strengths, whether in product design and development by the start-ups, or distribution and infrastructure capabilities by...
Three in four insurance companies believe that some part of their business is at risk of disruption.
Payments used to be one of the industries least vulnerable to disruption. In a FinTech flooded world, this is no longer the case.
Robo advisors and digital solutions providing online portfolio management with minimal human intervention are challenging traditional advisors.
Diversity is a vital element of the changing talent focus within financial services but is your organisation doing enough to support it? Learn more...
Insurers and reinsurers face growing demand for cyber insurance, but how can they capitalise on this opportunity, whilst managing their risk exposure?
The global alternative asset management industry is expected to experience a period of transformation over the coming years. Are you ready?
Diversity and inclusiveness are now competitive imperatives and female millennials are set to play a critical part in future Financial Services growth.
Non-life insurers are being left behind by the rapid changes in customer expectations. How can digital innovation help them to engage more closely with customers?
These PwC papers discuss ways of aligning business and talent management strategy as it relates new employees entering the workplace – the generation known as millennials. These publications look at how their unique characteristics demand an innovative approach to recruitment, retention, management and development.
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