A well-designed supply chain coupled with strategic sourcing can produce huge savings for organizations, but too often, those savings fail to hit the bottom line. Fortunately, when savings do not materialize, the root causes are predictable and can be avoided.

To evaluate the overall strength of your organization’s M&A capabilities, it is necessary to define the current strengths and weaknesses within your existing Origination to Optimization process.

To evaluate the overall strength of your organization’s M&A capabilities, it is necessary to define the current strengths and weaknesses within your existing Origination to Optimization process

The Trump administration yesterday (April 26, 2017) shared its ambitious but very short outline for U.S. Tax Reform as presented by Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and National Economic Council Director Gary Cohn during a press briefing.

Break-even analysis is a straightforward approach for driving business operations improvement focus. We discuss how operating partners can leverage break-even analysis to create sustainable value in their target business transformations.

In what is one of the most fundamental changes to U.K. tax law of the last decade, the government is to introduce a new regime effective from 1 April 2017 that restricts the tax deductions that are available for interest expense based on a percentage of the U.K. group’s EBITDA.

Almost two years ago, we wrote in these pages about the importance of companies taking a fresh look at their foreign tax credit profile as many began to eat through loss carryforwards and emerge as cash taxpayers once more.

Companies emerging from bankruptcy may be required to apply fresh start accounting. A&M provides a comprehensive suite of services, to advise and assist companies in adopting this non-routine area of accounting and reporting – allowing management to focus on the post-emergence business.

A&M helps our financial services clients stay ahead of the most pressing issues of the day. Whether you are looking to manage regulatory and compliance risk, maximize the value of your technology investments, enhance cybersecurity defenses, unlock value in underperforming assets or improve the customer experience, A&M can help.

The momentum behind tax reform took a back seat to healthcare the last few months, except for some debates surrounding border adjustments.

A full evaluation of what is happening in Europe’s insurance industry including summary observations from Alvarez & Marsal.

A month ago, the entire blueprint for tax reform seemed to be on a solid path to amend U.S. tax law.

Leading global professional services firm Alvarez & Marsal (A&M) today released its first UAE Banking Pulse. The report, which leverages independent, published market data will be issued on a quarterly basis, examines the 10 largest listed UAE banks, and is based on a series of different key performance indicators.

Regulatory exams can be daunting to those that are unprepared and uninformed about the process. Regulated entities that want to perform well in an exam often seek assistance from third-party vendors to conduct mock reviews and to help them prepare for the examination.

Conduct risks are at the very top of the regulatory agenda. But many financial institutions are uncertain about what regulators mean by the term "conduct risk" and unclear about what they as firms should be doing about it. Here is A&M’s perspective on both of these critically important questions.