{"id":573577,"date":"2026-03-24T17:53:41","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T17:53:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/03\/24\/tether-says-big-four-firm-to-handle-first-audit-of-usdt-reserves\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T17:53:41","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T17:53:41","slug":"tether-says-big-four-firm-to-handle-first-audit-of-usdt-reserves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/03\/24\/tether-says-big-four-firm-to-handle-first-audit-of-usdt-reserves\/","title":{"rendered":"Tether says \u2018Big Four\u2018 firm to handle first audit of USDT reserves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.cointelegraph.com\/images\/840_aHR0cHM6Ly9zMy5jb2ludGVsZWdyYXBoLmNvbS91cGxvYWRzLzIwMjYtMDMvMDE5ZDIwNGQtNzcwZi03YWY1LWI5MjQtN2Y4ZjU1MTgxMWY2LmpwZw==.jpg\" alt=\"Tether says \u2018Big Four\u2018 firm to handle first audit of USDT reserves\" class=\"type:primaryImage\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The stablecoin issuer did not name the accounting firm from the \u2018Big Four\u2018 roster of Deloitte, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Ernst &amp; Young, and KPMG.<\/p>\n<p>Stablecoin issuer Tether said it would hire one of the \u201cBig Four\u201d accounting firms to conduct a full audit of its reserves for the first time.<\/p>\n<p>In a Tuesday notice, Tether <a title=\"https:\/\/tether.io\/news\/tether-signs-big-four-firm-to-complete-first-full-audit-setting-a-new-quality-standard-for-the-digital-asset-economy\/\" href=\"https:\/\/tether.io\/news\/tether-signs-big-four-firm-to-complete-first-full-audit-setting-a-new-quality-standard-for-the-digital-asset-economy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">said<\/a> that the accounting firm \u2014 which it did not disclose \u2014 would complete a \u201cfull independent financial statement audit\u201d for the stablecoin issuer, including for its US dollar-pegged USDt (<a title=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/tether-price-index\" href=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/tether-price-index\">USDT<\/a>). <\/p>\n<p>The accounting industry\u2019s so-called <a title=\"https:\/\/www.journalofaccountancy.com\/newsletters\/2019\/nov\/big-four-career-advice\/\" href=\"https:\/\/www.journalofaccountancy.com\/newsletters\/2019\/nov\/big-four-career-advice\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">\u201cBig Four\u201d<\/a> are Deloitte, Ernst &amp; Young, KPMG and PricewaterhouseCoopers. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/news\/tether-big-four-audit-usdt-reserves\">Read more<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The stablecoin issuer did not name the accounting firm from the \u2018Big Four\u2018 roster of Deloitte, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Ernst &amp; Young, and KPMG. Stablecoin issuer Tether said it would hire one of the \u201cBig Four\u201d accounting firms to conduct a full audit of its reserves for the first time. In a Tuesday notice, Tether said that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":573578,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-573577","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-blockchain"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=573577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573577\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/573578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}