Commercial banking

Accountants can turn the audit playbook into an AI assurance framework that policymakers have been groping for.

Paul Brody is Global Blockchain Leader for EY (Ernst & Young). Under his leadership, EY is established a global presence in the blockchain space with a particular focus on public blockchains, assurance, and business application development in the Ethereum ecosystem. He can be found on X at @pbrody.

Brooke Ybarra is senior vice president for Innovation and Strategy at the American Bankers Association.  

The bill would levy a 5% tax on remittances for noncitizens and foreign nationals, on top of a roughly 5% to 10% fee already charged on the payments.

The Financial Reporting Council found EY "demonstrated a complete lack of professional skepticism" and failed "to be alert to conditions that may have indicated possible fraud."

In a private meeting, Trump singled out the lawmakers from New York, New Jersey and California who have rejected the $30,000 deduction limit.

With the number of extensions, many practitioners are seeing tax season continue through the summer and fall.

The Top 25 Firm is growing its presence in the Pacific Northwest by adding a firm based in Edmonds, Washington, effective June 2, 2025.

Top 100 firm BMSS announced an investment in Knuula, an engagement letter and client documents software provider. The investment came after implementing Knuula themselves over the past year.

The Big Four firm added new agentic AI capacities, including a model that proactively identifies areas of value leakage and acts inside the tools to fix them.