{"id":24694,"date":"2025-05-01T12:16:44","date_gmt":"2025-05-01T12:16:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=24694"},"modified":"2025-05-01T12:16:44","modified_gmt":"2025-05-01T12:16:44","slug":"tether-ceo-says-big-four-accounting-firms-have-reversed-stance-now-pursuing-audit-talks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=24694","title":{"rendered":"Tether CEO Says Big Four Accounting Firms Have Reversed Stance, Now Pursuing Audit Talks"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>Tether<\/strong>, the issuer of the world&#8217;s largest stablecoin <strong>USDT<\/strong> (CRYPTO: <a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/\">USDT<\/a>), is in active discussions with multiple \u2018Big Four\u2019 accounting firms to pursue a full financial audit, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/personal-finance\/25\/04\/44778128\/will-tether-flip-ethereum-this-year-jan3-ceo-samson-mow-says-yes-as-market-cap-gap-narrows\">according to CEO <strong>Paolo Ardoino<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The talks, he said, represent a dramatic change in tone from the auditing firms, which previously distanced themselves from working with crypto companies.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What Happened: <\/strong>&#8220;There is a 180 degrees change,&#8221; Ardoino told Benzinga in an interview. &#8220;From last year to this year, we had these firms contacting us and being very open.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He added that Tether is now going through the onboarding process with several of the world&#8217;s largest auditors, although he did not specify which ones.<\/p>\n<p>The shift, he explained, has coincided with political changes in the United States. &#8220;It&#8217;s happened because of the administration of Trump,&#8221; Ardoino said. <\/p>\n<p>He pointed to prior resistance from lawmakers like Senator <strong>Elizabeth Warren<\/strong> (D-Mass.), who had criticized Big Four firms for servicing crypto clients. &#8220;Senator Warren was attacking the big four audit firms because they were &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/markets\/cryptocurrency\/25\/05\/45132056\/tether-ceo-says-big-four-accounting-firms-have-reversed-stance-now-pursuing-audit-talks\" alt=\"Tether\" ceo says big four accounting firms have reversed stance now pursuing audit talks>Full story available on Benzinga.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tether, the issuer of the world&#8217;s largest stablecoin USDT (CRYPTO: USDT), is in active discussions with multiple \u2018Big Four\u2019 accounting firms to pursue a full financial audit, according to CEO Paolo Ardoino. The talks, he said, represent a dramatic change in tone from the auditing firms, which previously distanced themselves from working with crypto companies. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-24694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-doge","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24694\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}