Financial Services

We focus on the future of financial services, helping clients shape their businesses and execute strategies.

Accelerating growth, mastering complex issues

In a market that is changing at lightning speed, you need to be nimble to stay ahead. Our breadth of services is designed to accelerate the speed and agility of your business. Working with PwC, you can tap into the innovative approaches, applied technology and operational intelligence you need to not only move confidently ahead, but also achieve sustained advantage. Find out how we can help you.

How PwC can help you

Meeting your needs

Our financial services industry group is a distinctive and multi-disciplinary practice that provides audit, technical accounting, tax, regulatory, compliance, risk management, outsourcing, securities processing, payments, information risk and security, data quality, mergers and acquisitions, and other services. Our integrated knowledge enables us to help clients design solutions that work.

Here are a few of the services we can help you with.

Strengthen trust and transparency

In a fast changing, technology-driven world, building and maintaining trust has never been more important or challenging. Providing trust over financial reporting is a big responsibility, and it lies at the heart of everything we do. Our audit approach, which is at the leading edge of best practice, draws upon our extensive industry knowledge and empowered by marketing-leading technologies, is tailored to suit the size and nature of your business. We can help you deliver a clear path to value through improved transparency with stakeholders, confidently protecting and reporting on information for your business.

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Navigate regulatory complexity

The current regulatory environment has financial institutions grappling with a growing number of requirements and expectations from regulators, investors and end customers. With this increasing regulatory burden across different jurisdictions, financial institutions need a strategic approach to put in place new controls, processes and governance structures to ensure compliance with existing, new and expected regulatory requirements. We can help you understand complex compliance requirements and design, construct and implement sustainable, cost-effective compliance solutions.

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Manage tax accounting and reporting obligations

As the pace and complexity of tax laws continue to increase, professional advice is essential. We will work with you to tailor solutions by gaining a strong understanding of your business and using our local knowledge and global experience in this increasingly challenging and ever-changing local and international tax environment. We can advise you on the management of critical tax issues and help you revolutionise your tax function, with the aid of technology and data tools, exploring new opportunities for delivering enhanced insights and long-term business value.

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Drive growth through deals

Financial services executives and board members continue to reassess business portfolios for ways to optimise operation models, increase market share and competitive advantage, and create value through inorganic growth. We can work collaboratively with your teams to approach and prepare for deal making with speed and confidence, identifying growth opportunities and unexpected value, while managing effective deal execution and post-merger integration.

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Move your business forward with confidence

Growth and change are two realities that no business can afford to ignore. Sustainable strategies that help your business innovate and grow while reducing costs and leveraging talent are just as essential as having the agility and creativity to respond to rapidly changing environments. By taking the time to understand your business and the challenges you are facing, we aim to help you solve your toughest problems and capture your greatest opportunities. We can help you create sustainable change by stimulating innovation, unlocking data possibilities and aligning costs with business strategy.

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On your agenda

We also look at the road ahead, identifying what at the most important issues facing financial services firms today and tomorrow. We put them in perspective, look at the current landscape, share our view on what will likely come next, and offer our thoughts on how you can continue to deliver value to your business.

Here are some of the key shifts reshaping the industry where we can work with you to turn the situation to your advantage.

FinTech and Payments

The convergence of financial services and technology industries has created an age of uncertainty like never seen before. With innovations such as peer-to-peer payment technology and blockchain consistently disrupting infrastructure, operations and business models, FinTech is changing the financial services industry from the outside in. Payments, in particular, will continue to dial up a storm in the financial services industry. We can help you anticipate and understand the emerging technology and disruption competitive landscape, analyse the impact and opportunities on business and integrate innovations into your business.

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Financial Crime

Preventing and detecting financial crime is rapidly becoming one of the greatest challenges for financial institutions – impacting not just monetary losses, but reputation, brand, culture, relationships, and regulatory censure. We help you build confidence in dealing with fast and evolving financial crime threats. We provide solutions tailored to your needs ranging from technology/software solutions, end-to-end outsourcing and provision of specialist resources, health checks to meet regulators expectations, design of policies and procedures/systems and processes to mitigate risks, support in remediation and recovery of regulatory and fraud related matters.

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Cybersecurity

As businesses today are increasingly interconnected and dependent on digital business processes, cybersecurity is now a persistent business risk. It is no longer an issue that concerns only information technology; the financial, operational and reputational impacts have made this a C-suite and boardroom priority. We can help you shape a broader strategic response to cyber risk by helping you understand your current capability and putting in place a focused plan to target investment in the right places. To do this, we will focus on six key areas: risk, connections, people, technology, crisis and priorities.

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Data and Analytics

Optimise your data assets and capitalise on the untapped business intelligence you already own. Smart companies are adopting new approaches to turning data insights into tangible results. From strategy to execution to results, we deliver ‘intelligence in the moment’. We can help you make your decision-making capabilities faster and more sophisticated, using different approaches that scale to meet your needs, including executive workshops, strategy and innovation pilots, proprietary benchmarks, advanced analytics, analytics apps with data visualisation, and advisory engagements. We can work with you to strike the right balance between mind and machine to leverage data, understand risk, and gain a competitive edge.

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Pricewaterhousecoopers Consulting (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.was awarded the Monetary Authority of Singapore’s Financial Sector Technology and Innovation (FSTI) Proof of Concept (POC) grant on 26-May-2020. The FSTI POC grant provides funding support for experimentation, development and dissemination of nascent innovative technologies in the financial services sector.

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Sam Kok Weng

Sam Kok Weng

Financial Services Leader, PwC Singapore

Tel: +65 9367 3340

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