Michael Curtis

Navigating uncertainty: Q1 2025 global IPO insights

LONDON, THURSDAY 10 APRIL 2025. Global IPO markets in the first quarter of 2025 have experienced profound uncertainty, shaped by significant geopolitical shifts and the rise of disruptive artificial intelligence (AI) models.

EY Law study reveals disruptors prompting the evolution of legal departments and the key barriers to change

LONDON, 9 APRIL 2025. Geopolitics (76%), the regulatory environment (75%) and technological advancements (74%) are the top three external challenges facing legal departments and are creating seismic shifts in the global corporate landscape.

CEOs undeterred by uncertain business landscape as confidence in growth outlook rises for 2025

DAVOS, 21 JANUARY 2025. Confidence in growth among global CEOs is increasing despite complex geopolitical and macroeconomic challenges, according to the latest EY-Parthenon CEO Outlook Survey: Global Confidence Index, which evaluates the optimism levels of 1,200 global business leaders based on 15 “Confidence Index" measures.

EY launches new Integrated Global Payroll Solution to transform and centralize payroll management

LONDON 20 NOVEMBER 2024. The EY organization announces today the launch of a next-generation Integrated Global Payroll Solution, a managed service designed to streamline and help payroll management in-house for organizations with a global workforce.

EY unveils GenAI insights platform ‘EY Competitive Edge,’ expands Alliance with Microsoft

LONDON, 30 OCTOBER 2024. The EY organization announces the launch of “EY Competitive Edge,” a proprietary intelligence cloud-based platform that generates real-time tailored insights on markets, companies and sectors at pace.

EY survey reveals huge uptick in GenAI adoption at work, correlates with ‘talent health’ and competitive gains

LONDON, 15 OCTOBER 2024. Use of generative AI (GenAI) in the workplace has significantly increased, rising exponentially from 22% in 2023 to 75% today, and with the highest usage attributed to the tech (90%) and lowest to the government and public sectors (60%).

CFOs and tax leaders optimistic about transformative power of GenAI amid rising cost and regulatory challenges, survey finds

LONDON, 9 OCTOBER 2024. The latest EY Tax and Finance Operations (TFO) Survey finds generative AI (GenAI) may help transform tax and finance functions, helping to address inefficiencies, talent shortages, and compliance with emerging reporting obligations, including those related to global minimum taxes.

CEO confidence in M&A market to drive shift from reactive to proactive deal strategy, despite macro uncertainties

LONDON, 4 SEPTEMBER 2024. CEOs globally remain confident about economic growth prospects over the next 12 months, according to the latest EY CEO Outlook Pulse survey of 1,200 executives globally, which includes a new Global CEO Confidence Index.

EY Future Consumer Index: consumers return to physical stores for personal service, even as AI and tech revolutionize online shopping

LONDON, 23 July 2024. Despite technology transforming consumers’ retail experience, allowing them to seamlessly shop between online, social media, in-app and in-game, 32% of consumers still crave the personal service that only in-store shopping can provide, according to the latest release of data from the EY Future Consumer Index (FCI) – which surveyed more than 23,000 consumers across 30 countries.

EY Future Consumer Index: Consumer optimism on the rise but connecting with the independent consumer heralds a new challenge for retailers and brands

LONDON, 29 MAY 2024. Nearly half (47%) of respondents continue to be optimistic about the future according to the latest EY Future Consumer Index (FCI) – which surveyed more than 23,000 consumers across 30 countries – despite concerns about rising living costs (73%), climate change (63%) and geopolitical tensions (51%).

Extreme E and EY publish Season 3 report, recording 8.2% carbon footprint reduction as female-male performance gap continues to narrow

LONDON, 9 APRIL 2024. Extreme E has published its third Sustainability Report, compiled, and produced in collaboration with EY. Continuing to race the series’ ODYSSEY 21 off-road electric vehicles and leveraging solar and green hydrogen energy, the report reveals that the racing series maintained its carbon-neutral status and reduced its overall carbon footprint by 8.2%.

Businesses favor gradual adoption of GenAI as they look to address knowledge gaps

LONDON, 15 FEBRUARY 2024. The latest EY Reimagining Industry Futures Study confirms generative AI’s (GenAI) status as a breakthrough technology, with 43% of the 1,405 enterprises surveyed investing in it.

Deals are back: Surge in life sciences M&A fueled by sector's capital reserves and quest for new revenue growth

LONDON, 8 JANUARY 2024. The global life sciences industry has once again embraced big deal making, with mergers and acquisitions (M&A) investment totaling US$191b to 10 December 2023, compared with US$142b in 2022.

Tech industry outlook brighter than 12 months ago, with GenAI emerging as top opportunity for 2024

LONDON, 7 DECEMBER 2023. Following a challenging start to 2023 for the technology sector, characterized by macroeconomic weaknesses and cost-savings, company strategies centered on generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) have triggered a rebound in confidence.

The emergence of GenAI is reshaping the 2024 telecoms risk radar

LONDON, 30 NOVEMBER 2023. Changing imperatives in privacy, security and trust emerges as the top risk facing telecoms companies in 2024.

EY Future Consumer Index: Consumers learning to live with less as climate change and cost-of-living reality hits home

LONDON, 9 NOVEMBER 2023. While 94% of consumer respondents globally remain concerned about the cost of living, almost 89% are also concerned about climate change.

Universities failing to deliver as 1/3 of students say they feel negative or neutral about their choice of university – EY survey

LONDON, 8 NOVEMBER 2023. Universities need an urgent overhaul of their digital education practices and student experience to help their teaching staff better meet student expectations, according to a new EY report.

EY Study: Lack of autonomy and patient safety driving clinicians to sound the alarm for new care delivery models

NEW YORK 17 OCTOBER 2023. EY Global Voices in Health Care Study 2023 finds clinicians are calling for models that allow them to put patients first without sacrificing their own quality of life.

EY study: consumers are still spending on digital home products and services despite cost-of-living crisis

LONDON, 14 SEPTEMBER 2023. Less than one in five digital households (16%) have reduced or plan to reduce their spending on home broadband, mobile connectivity or streaming according to the latest EY Decoding the digital home study – which surveyed more than 21,000 consumers on their attitudes toward technology, media and telecoms experienced in the home across eight countries: Canada, France, Italy, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, the UK and the US.

EY survey: 42% of global health consumers rate access to care as below average

LONDON 7 JUNE 2023. The EY Global Consumer Health Survey 2023, released today, finds that access to care is valued most highly by consumers.