Compare and contrast: Worldwide Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT) Regimes - July 2017
This publication keeps you up to speed and allow you to compare the various global REIT regimes in 26 countries.
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InsurTech: The new normal for (re)insurance
(Re)insurers are coming to see InsurTech as a transformational rather than disruptive force.
Uncharted waters: Tackling reinsurers’ riskiest exposures
Get to grips with the banana skins that have shot to the top of reinsurers’ risk register – cyber, change management and political upheaval.
Is the (re)insurance industry fit for growth?
As disruption mounts, (re)insurers are facing huge strategic challenges in maintaining competitiveness, driving change and delivering growth.
Blockchain, a catalyst for new approaches in insurance
How insurance could be a major beneficiary of the technology.
Insurance Banana Skins 2017
Insurance Banana Skins is piece of research conducted by PwC in association with the Centre for the Study of Financial Innovation (CSFI), an independent think tank. It's a survey of insurers and seeks out their views on current risk and future trends.
Staying ahead: Central banks in a multi-mandate environment
Participants from PwC’s 2016 Central Bank Forum share their perspectives on how to address the challenges of an expanding mandate.
Anti-Money Laundering: Financial Crime Guide Tool & Global Financial Crime Resource Map
Our interactive, user friendly platform providing key financial crime information and contact details for PwC professionals globally.
Real Estate Going Global: Tax and legal aspects of real estate investments around the globe
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 more than 40 countries.
Key tax issues at year end for real estate investors 2016/2017
The publication gives investors and fund managers an overview of year-end to-dos and important issues in real estate taxation in 34 tax systems worldwide.
RiskMinds 2016 Points of View
As RiskMind 2016 Lead sponsor PwC is launching a number of new reports. Topics include climate policy risk and client onboarding.
Aspirations and realities: Gauging the impact of the ICS on capital management
The IAIS has set ambitious goals for its planned new ICS. Can these objectives be met? How much of an impact will they have on capital?
The power to perform: Human capital 2020 and beyond
Financial services is being transformed. How can you optimise your human capital today, while building for tomorrow?
Insurance 2020 and beyond: Creating a winning culture
Many insurers are seeking to remodel their culture. How can you translate your intentions into real changes in the way your people behave and make decisions during the ‘moments that matter’?
Mastering the New Regulatory Landscape
Nearly a decade on from the global financial crisis, the banking industry is stepping back to consider the commercial implications of the new regulatory environment and adapting business models to ensure they are fit for the future. How can you take advantage of the new regulatory reform agenda and use it to change the way you run your business and achieve competitive advantage?
African banking survey
In this report, we focus on the challenges facing banks and the strategies being implemented to adapt to new trends, from the perspective of bank CEOs.
The wait is nearly over? IFRS 17 is coming, are you prepared for it?
IFRS 17 (previously IFRS 4 Phase II) is expected to be issued in early 2017 with an effective date of 2021.
Billionaires insights
UBS and PwC delve deep into the findings of the Billionaire Report in a sequel study which reveals the evolving identity of the world's billionaires.
SA Mine 8th edition (2016)
The 2016 financial year was impacted by the US-dollar commodity price decreases, which were offset by the weaker rand from October 2015.
Platinum on a knife-edge
This publication focuses on how commodity prices are cyclical and are largely determined by supply and demand.
Blockchain: The 5 billion opportunity for reinsurers
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.
Chain Reaction: How Blockchain Technology Might Transform Wholesale Insurance
This study identifies where blockchain technologies have the greatest potential to help the wholesale insurance market solve fundamental problems such as business process inefficiencies – and how market players will collaborate to do so. Based on discussions with a wide range of market participants it sets out those practical uses for blockchain that will deliver the highest value with the lowest barriers to implementation.
Banking and capital markets 2020: Is your business equipped with a tax function for the future?
Is your business equipped to handle the challenges of 2020? If not, does your tax department know what it needs to do in order to optimise its function in 2020?
Customers in the spotlight: How FinTech is reshaping banking
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 banks.
ETFs: A roadmap to growth
The global ETF (Exchange Traded Fund) industry continues to experience rapid change, presenting both opportunities and challenges.
The overhaul of lease accounting: Catalyst for change in corporate real estate
Active management of real estate assets is becoming a strategic imperative for users, and the newly established lease accounting standard is an incentive
Financial services technology 2020 and beyond
The financial services industry has seen drastic technology-led changes over the past few years and customers have had their expectations set by other industries.
Central Banking 2020: Ahead of the curve
The pressing questions facing central banks
Opportunities await: How InsurTech is reshaping insurance
Three in four insurance companies believe that some part of their business is at risk of disruption.
Women of the world
Aligning gender diversity and international mobility in Financial Services
Emerging Trends in Real Estate: The global outlook for 2016
The Emerging Trends in Real Estate® series of reports are produced annually by PwC and the Urban Land Institute following interviews and surveys with the most senior property professionals. They have become a key indicator of sentiment in their respective regions. We have drawn together those regional insights for this global report, highlighting the most relevant trends.
Payments in the Wild Tech World: Digitisation and changing customer expectations
Payments used to be one of the industries least vulnerable to disruption. In a FinTech flooded world, this is no longer the case.
Robo-advice
Robo advisors and digital solutions providing online portfolio management with minimal human intervention are challenging traditional advisors.
Marketplace lending
FinTech and other non-traditional credit providers disrupt the traditional banking landscape but all have an opportunity to create strategic partnerships.
Payments
Mobile and new technologies are fundamentally changing the payments landscape proving to be a disruptive force on incumbent financial institutions.
Sink or Swim: Why wealth management can’t afford to miss the digital wave
Wealth management stands today as one of the least tech-literate sectors of the financial services industry, and is falling well behind non-financial services industries.
PwC Central Bank Forum 2015
The Forum's discussions were an opportunity for senior central bankers and PwC representatives to share ideas and learn from each other’s experience.
Key tax issues at year end for real estate investors 2015/2016
The publication gives investors and fund managers an overview of year-end to-dos and important issues in real estate taxation in 34 tax systems worldwide.
Global hedge fund distribution survey 2015
This report is a collaboration between PwC and the Alternative Investment Management Association (AIMA) and examines disruption in the hedge fund sector.
Banking Banana Skins
Banking Banana Skins, sponsored by PwC and conducted by the CSFI, explores what risks bankers face in the current climate and how they prioritise them.
RiskMinds 2015 Points of View
The following points of view were launched at RiskMinds 2015 and demonstrate PwC leading the debate in global FS risk issues.
Choosing an investment vehicle: European Real Estate Fund Regimes - November 2016
This booklet seeks to compare more than 30 different types of fund vehicles in 18 European countries in a summary form, by looking at a consistent set of key topics, and noting major pros and cons.
Financial Services: Making diversity a reality
Diversity is a vital element of the changing talent focus within financial services but is your organisation doing enough to support it? Learn more...
Asset Management 2020 and beyond: Transforming your business for a new global tax world
Asset managers need to plan for the future - PwC sets out a vision of what the tax landscape will look like in 2020 and beyond in new report.
Project Blue 2.0: Redefining financial services
Financial institutions must embrace a customer and regulator centric world to shape their future and prosper. Define purpose and ride new goals.
Alternative Asset Management 2020: Fast Forward to Centre Stage
The global alternative asset management industry is expected to experience a period of transformation over the coming years. Are you ready?
Insurance 2020 & beyond: Necessity is the mother of reinvention
Insurers and industry stakeholders have been using Insurance 2020 to help them judge the implications of trends reshaping the insurance industry.
Female Millennials in Financial Services: strategies for a new era of talent
Diversity and inclusiveness are now competitive imperatives and female millennials are set to play a critical part in future Financial Services growth.
A new take on talent
As industry transformation and disruption gather pace, financial services CEOs are more concerned than ever about the limited availability of key skills.
ETF 2020: Preparing for a new horizon
Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) are no longer considered a niche product. New investor segments continue to integrate ETFs into their portfolios and fund sponsors continue to introduce new products.
Project Blue - custom downloads
Capitalising on the rise and interconnectivity of the emerging markets. Download your customised report.
Future shape of banking - Time for reformation of banking and banks?
Future shape of banking outlines four key areas banks need to address in order to remain relevant, as we argue that the future of banking will look very different to what we see today.
Insurance 2020: The digital prize – taking customer connection to a new level
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?
Equipped for the future: Re-inventing your organisation
The financial services sector is facing increasing market transformation. How can you make sure your business is equipped to compete?
Digital life insurer - Insurance research & insights: PwC
Many life and pensions businesses are scrambling to keep pace with the increasing impact of digital in their marketplace. But the ways in which they’re responding are too slow. The latest in the Project Blue: Future of Insurance series explores if there could be a faster, cheaper and more flexible way to grasp the digital potential?
Real Estate 2020: Building the future
As confidence returns to real estate, the industry faces a number of fundamental shifts that will shape its future. We have looked into the likely changes in the real estate landscape over the coming years and identified the key trends which, we believe, will have profound implications for real estate investment and development.
Asset Management 2020: A Brave New World
This PwC report asks, and answers the question: What is the future of the asset management industry and how will you prepare?
Explore the data
Explore the underlying data of PwC’s Banking 2020 for the industry’s view on the future of retail banking.
Emerging trends and imperatives
PwC’s Banking 2020 lists the key priorities and trends retail banks will need to focus on to be successful in 2020.
Reinsurance 2020: Breaking the mould
The key considerations for survival and success in a sector facing disruptive and rapidly accelerating change.
Sink or swim: Why wealth management can't afford to miss the digital wave
PwC's 2013 Global Private Banking and Wealth Management Survey offers insight into industry trends and strategic priorities for global wealth and asset managers.
Insurance 2020: Unleashing the value from values. Five golden rules for a high performing culture in the insurance industry
In a period of unrelenting change, culture can be your greatest ally or your biggest enemy. How can you actively shape your culture and use it to your competitive advantage?
Getting to grips with Pillar 3
We explore the strategic and practical issues facing insurers as they implement the Solvency II insurance reporting and disclosure requirements under Pillar 3.
Life and pensions: Competing for a future
PwC research explores the future of insurance. What are the forces set to shape it? What will the new marketplace look like? How can life and pensions thrive?
Insurance 2020: Turning change into opportunity
PwC's Future of Insurance explores both the key drivers of change for the insurance industry and their implications for the insurance business.
Reinsurers confront a new reality
Are emerging markets the best bet for reinsurance companies? We tackle the questions around the generation of ongoing sustainable profits for reinsurance companies.
Insurance regulation goes beyond Solvency II
Watch video outlining how insurance regulators are actively working on a range of insurance directives in addition to Solvency II.
Capitalising on the rise and interconnectivity of the emerging markets
The country perspectives for Brazil, China, Hong Kong, India, Middle East, Singapore and South Africa, of the latest global report within the Project blue framework, looks at how they can follow their clients into new markets and make the most of the commercial potential.
Millennials at work: Reshaping the workplace in financial services
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.
Assessing the future trends for financial services
The Project Blue framework considers the rise and interconnectivity of emerging markets and state-directed approaches to economic development. It also examines the impact of new technology, demographics, changing customer behaviour and mounting pressure on the world’s most critical natural resources.
About Project Blue
Project Blue assesses emerging markets, state-directed economic development, new technology, demographics, customer behaviour and natural resources.
A step forward for Solvency II reporting requirements
EIOPA have made some significant decisions on quantitative reporting measures in response to stakeholders’ concerns.
Daring to be different
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2011 Global private banking-wealth management survey
The Survey is designed to be completed by senior management as an on-line questionnaire and in return for participation you will receive a copy of the Survey Report and a detailed slide pack of the key results.
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Compare and contrast: Worldwide Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT) Regimes - July 2017
This publication keeps you up to speed and allow you to compare the various global REIT regimes in 26 countries.
InsurTech: The new normal for (re)insurance
(Re)insurers are coming to see InsurTech as a transformational rather than disruptive force.
Uncharted waters: Tackling reinsurers’ riskiest exposures
Get to grips with the banana skins that have shot to the top of reinsurers’ risk register – cyber, change management and political upheaval.
Is the (re)insurance industry fit for growth?
As disruption mounts, (re)insurers are facing huge strategic challenges in maintaining competitiveness, driving change and delivering growth.
Blockchain, a catalyst for new approaches in insurance
How insurance could be a major beneficiary of the technology.
Insurance Banana Skins 2017
Insurance Banana Skins is piece of research conducted by PwC in association with the Centre for the Study of Financial Innovation (CSFI), an independent think tank. It's a survey of insurers and seeks out their views on current risk and future trends.
Staying ahead: Central banks in a multi-mandate environment
Participants from PwC’s 2016 Central Bank Forum share their perspectives on how to address the challenges of an expanding mandate.
Anti-Money Laundering: Financial Crime Guide Tool & Global Financial Crime Resource Map
Our interactive, user friendly platform providing key financial crime information and contact details for PwC professionals globally.
Real Estate Going Global: Tax and legal aspects of real estate investments around the globe
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 more than 40 countries.
Key tax issues at year end for real estate investors 2016/2017
The publication gives investors and fund managers an overview of year-end to-dos and important issues in real estate taxation in 34 tax systems worldwide.
RiskMinds 2016 Points of View
As RiskMind 2016 Lead sponsor PwC is launching a number of new reports. Topics include climate policy risk and client onboarding.
Aspirations and realities: Gauging the impact of the ICS on capital management
The IAIS has set ambitious goals for its planned new ICS. Can these objectives be met? How much of an impact will they have on capital?
The power to perform: Human capital 2020 and beyond
Financial services is being transformed. How can you optimise your human capital today, while building for tomorrow?
Insurance 2020 and beyond: Creating a winning culture
Many insurers are seeking to remodel their culture. How can you translate your intentions into real changes in the way your people behave and make decisions during the ‘moments that matter’?
Mastering the New Regulatory Landscape
Nearly a decade on from the global financial crisis, the banking industry is stepping back to consider the commercial implications of the new regulatory environment and adapting business models to ensure they are fit for the future. How can you take advantage of the new regulatory reform agenda and use it to change the way you run your business and achieve competitive advantage?
The wait is nearly over? IFRS 17 is coming, are you prepared for it?
IFRS 17 (previously IFRS 4 Phase II) is expected to be issued in early 2017 with an effective date of 2021.
Billionaires insights
UBS and PwC delve deep into the findings of the Billionaire Report in a sequel study which reveals the evolving identity of the world's billionaires.
Blockchain: The 5 billion opportunity for reinsurers
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.
Chain Reaction: How Blockchain Technology Might Transform Wholesale Insurance
This study identifies where blockchain technologies have the greatest potential to help the wholesale insurance market solve fundamental problems such as business process inefficiencies – and how market players will collaborate to do so. Based on discussions with a wide range of market participants it sets out those practical uses for blockchain that will deliver the highest value with the lowest barriers to implementation.
Banking and capital markets 2020: Is your business equipped with a tax function for the future?
Is your business equipped to handle the challenges of 2020? If not, does your tax department know what it needs to do in order to optimise its function in 2020?
Customers in the spotlight: How FinTech is reshaping banking
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 banks.
ETFs: A roadmap to growth
The global ETF (Exchange Traded Fund) industry continues to experience rapid change, presenting both opportunities and challenges.
The overhaul of lease accounting: Catalyst for change in corporate real estate
Active management of real estate assets is becoming a strategic imperative for users, and the newly established lease accounting standard is an incentive
Financial services technology 2020 and beyond
The financial services industry has seen drastic technology-led changes over the past few years and customers have had their expectations set by other industries.
Central Banking 2020: Ahead of the curve
The pressing questions facing central banks
Opportunities await: How InsurTech is reshaping insurance
Three in four insurance companies believe that some part of their business is at risk of disruption.
Women of the world
Aligning gender diversity and international mobility in Financial Services
Emerging Trends in Real Estate: The global outlook for 2016
The Emerging Trends in Real Estate® series of reports are produced annually by PwC and the Urban Land Institute following interviews and surveys with the most senior property professionals. They have become a key indicator of sentiment in their respective regions. We have drawn together those regional insights for this global report, highlighting the most relevant trends.
Payments in the Wild Tech World: Digitisation and changing customer expectations
Payments used to be one of the industries least vulnerable to disruption. In a FinTech flooded world, this is no longer the case.
Robo-advice
Robo advisors and digital solutions providing online portfolio management with minimal human intervention are challenging traditional advisors.
Marketplace lending
FinTech and other non-traditional credit providers disrupt the traditional banking landscape but all have an opportunity to create strategic partnerships.
Payments
Mobile and new technologies are fundamentally changing the payments landscape proving to be a disruptive force on incumbent financial institutions.
Sink or Swim: Why wealth management can’t afford to miss the digital wave
Wealth management stands today as one of the least tech-literate sectors of the financial services industry, and is falling well behind non-financial services industries.
PwC Central Bank Forum 2015
The Forum's discussions were an opportunity for senior central bankers and PwC representatives to share ideas and learn from each other’s experience.
Key tax issues at year end for real estate investors 2015/2016
The publication gives investors and fund managers an overview of year-end to-dos and important issues in real estate taxation in 34 tax systems worldwide.
Global hedge fund distribution survey 2015
This report is a collaboration between PwC and the Alternative Investment Management Association (AIMA) and examines disruption in the hedge fund sector.
Banking Banana Skins
Banking Banana Skins, sponsored by PwC and conducted by the CSFI, explores what risks bankers face in the current climate and how they prioritise them.
RiskMinds 2015 Points of View
The following points of view were launched at RiskMinds 2015 and demonstrate PwC leading the debate in global FS risk issues.
Choosing an investment vehicle: European Real Estate Fund Regimes - November 2016
This booklet seeks to compare more than 30 different types of fund vehicles in 18 European countries in a summary form, by looking at a consistent set of key topics, and noting major pros and cons.
Financial Services: Making diversity a reality
Diversity is a vital element of the changing talent focus within financial services but is your organisation doing enough to support it? Learn more...
Asset Management 2020 and beyond: Transforming your business for a new global tax world
Asset managers need to plan for the future - PwC sets out a vision of what the tax landscape will look like in 2020 and beyond in new report.
Project Blue 2.0: Redefining financial services
Financial institutions must embrace a customer and regulator centric world to shape their future and prosper. Define purpose and ride new goals.
Alternative Asset Management 2020: Fast Forward to Centre Stage
The global alternative asset management industry is expected to experience a period of transformation over the coming years. Are you ready?
Insurance 2020 & beyond: Necessity is the mother of reinvention
Insurers and industry stakeholders have been using Insurance 2020 to help them judge the implications of trends reshaping the insurance industry.
Female Millennials in Financial Services: strategies for a new era of talent
Diversity and inclusiveness are now competitive imperatives and female millennials are set to play a critical part in future Financial Services growth.
A new take on talent
As industry transformation and disruption gather pace, financial services CEOs are more concerned than ever about the limited availability of key skills.
ETF 2020: Preparing for a new horizon
Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) are no longer considered a niche product. New investor segments continue to integrate ETFs into their portfolios and fund sponsors continue to introduce new products.
Project Blue - custom downloads
Capitalising on the rise and interconnectivity of the emerging markets. Download your customised report.
Future shape of banking - Time for reformation of banking and banks?
Future shape of banking outlines four key areas banks need to address in order to remain relevant, as we argue that the future of banking will look very different to what we see today.
Insurance 2020: The digital prize – taking customer connection to a new level
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?
Equipped for the future: Re-inventing your organisation
The financial services sector is facing increasing market transformation. How can you make sure your business is equipped to compete?
Digital life insurer - Insurance research & insights: PwC
Many life and pensions businesses are scrambling to keep pace with the increasing impact of digital in their marketplace. But the ways in which they’re responding are too slow. The latest in the Project Blue: Future of Insurance series explores if there could be a faster, cheaper and more flexible way to grasp the digital potential?
Real Estate 2020: Building the future
As confidence returns to real estate, the industry faces a number of fundamental shifts that will shape its future. We have looked into the likely changes in the real estate landscape over the coming years and identified the key trends which, we believe, will have profound implications for real estate investment and development.
Asset Management 2020: A Brave New World
This PwC report asks, and answers the question: What is the future of the asset management industry and how will you prepare?
Explore the data
Explore the underlying data of PwC’s Banking 2020 for the industry’s view on the future of retail banking.
Emerging trends and imperatives
PwC’s Banking 2020 lists the key priorities and trends retail banks will need to focus on to be successful in 2020.
Reinsurance 2020: Breaking the mould
The key considerations for survival and success in a sector facing disruptive and rapidly accelerating change.
Sink or swim: Why wealth management can't afford to miss the digital wave
PwC's 2013 Global Private Banking and Wealth Management Survey offers insight into industry trends and strategic priorities for global wealth and asset managers.
Insurance 2020: Unleashing the value from values. Five golden rules for a high performing culture in the insurance industry
In a period of unrelenting change, culture can be your greatest ally or your biggest enemy. How can you actively shape your culture and use it to your competitive advantage?
Getting to grips with Pillar 3
We explore the strategic and practical issues facing insurers as they implement the Solvency II insurance reporting and disclosure requirements under Pillar 3.
Life and pensions: Competing for a future
PwC research explores the future of insurance. What are the forces set to shape it? What will the new marketplace look like? How can life and pensions thrive?
Insurance 2020: Turning change into opportunity
PwC's Future of Insurance explores both the key drivers of change for the insurance industry and their implications for the insurance business.
Reinsurers confront a new reality
Are emerging markets the best bet for reinsurance companies? We tackle the questions around the generation of ongoing sustainable profits for reinsurance companies.
Insurance regulation goes beyond Solvency II
Watch video outlining how insurance regulators are actively working on a range of insurance directives in addition to Solvency II.
Capitalising on the rise and interconnectivity of the emerging markets
The country perspectives for Brazil, China, Hong Kong, India, Middle East, Singapore and South Africa, of the latest global report within the Project blue framework, looks at how they can follow their clients into new markets and make the most of the commercial potential.
Millennials at work: Reshaping the workplace in financial services
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.
Assessing the future trends for financial services
The Project Blue framework considers the rise and interconnectivity of emerging markets and state-directed approaches to economic development. It also examines the impact of new technology, demographics, changing customer behaviour and mounting pressure on the world’s most critical natural resources.
About Project Blue
Project Blue assesses emerging markets, state-directed economic development, new technology, demographics, customer behaviour and natural resources.
A step forward for Solvency II reporting requirements
EIOPA have made some significant decisions on quantitative reporting measures in response to stakeholders’ concerns.
Daring to be different
PwC's Daring to be different explains why a change of strategy could help reinsurers demonstrate how they create value and thus improve investor interest.
2011 Global private banking-wealth management survey
The Survey is designed to be completed by senior management as an on-line questionnaire and in return for participation you will receive a copy of the Survey Report and a detailed slide pack of the key results.
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