Credit, Collections & Insolvency News
Creditors Voluntary Winding-Up – Appointment of Liquidators notices have been issued in the London Gazette for the following companies: 171 (RETAIL) LTD 208 LTD 21ST TELECOMS LTD 24 7 DISTRIBUTION SPECIALISTS LTD 24HR MANAGEMENT SVS LTD 25/4 2M MEDICAL SERVICES LTD 3 – FIVE – 8 LTD 3 WOOD (UK) LTD 3V LEISURE LTD 427 MOTOR…
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Half of the small businesses in the UK are currently operating in the red, according to the latest Small Business Insights published by Xero. According to new data, only 49.5 percent of businesses were operating in positive cash flow last year. Despite the various government initiatives that have been attempted, the UK’s biggest firms are still…
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The Insolvency Service has released the latest numbers business insolvency in Quarter 1 (January to March 2018). The figures indicate that an underlying number of insolvencies (excluding bulk insolvencies) increased to the highest quarterly level since Q1 2014. This was driven by a rise in underlying creditors’ voluntary liquidations and compulsory liquidations. Duncan Swift, vice-president of…
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UK businesses saw a 27 percent surge in the number of adverse debt judgments last year, according to national statistics issued by TrustOnline. Over the same period, the number of online searches by people checking judgment status grew by ten percent. During 2017, 109,000 judgments were registered against businesses in England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland,…
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Accountant in Bankruptcy (AiB) has released official statistics reporting company insolvencies in Scotland for the fourth quarter (January to March 2018) of 2017-18. Corporate insolvencies increased from 846 in 2016-17 to 886 in 2017-18. The number of corporate insolvencies in Scotland rose by 28% in Q4 2017-18 (January-March 2018) compared with Q3 2017-18 (October-December 2017),…
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The ICAEW has announced success with accountancy exams with students once again scoring top marks in their March 2018 ACA Professional Level exams and Level 4 Accounting Technician apprenticeship end-point assessments. Students scored high in all ACA exams, with Business Strategy and Technology seeing the highest pass rate (88.2%), closely followed by Financial Accounting and…
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Insolvency and restructuring trade body.R3 has announced that Stuart Frith, a Partner at Stephenson Harwood LL will be its new President. With over 30 years’ experience in the insolvency and restructuring profession, Frith has expertise covering both corporate and personal insolvency work. A partner in Stephenson Harwood since 2009, he is also a Deputy Judge…
Read moreDebt owed to UK businesses across eleven core business sectors was £580m higher in the last three months than in Q4, 2017 according to latest figures from a Creditsafe. After falling to a 12-month low in Q4 2017 with £157.9m being filed, bad debt (debt owed to businesses) filed in the first quarter of 2018 reached…
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The Government has called for evidence as part of a consultation to review airline insolvency procedures in the wake of the collapse of Monarch. The Airline Insolvency Review “will look to ensure airlines can wind down with the minimum impact on passengers and the taxpayer”, according to the Department for Transport. Peter Bucks, Chair of…
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Just 11% of the £416 billion in the total stock of loans to businesses are now being provided on a fixed rate – dropping by a third from 18% two years ago – leaving businesses with huge exposure to rising interest rates, says Hadrian’s Wall Capital, the London-based specialist debt adviser. The drop came as…
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The Insolvency Practitioners Association (IPA), the membership body and regulator for those specialising in insolvency practice, has appointed Lloyd Hinton as its new President for the coming year. Hinton takes office with immediate effect and serves as the Association’s figurehead and Chair of its board of directors for the next twelve months. Hinton is a Licensed…
Read moreA new study of over 1600 larger UK retailers with total assets of £5 million or over by Company Watch, the financial analytics firm, found over a quarter were financially vulnerable to rises in interest rate costs this year. Company Watch reviewed the latest published full-year financial accounts of 1625 UK retailers. It found that 392 (24.1%) companies…
Read moreScotland has the lowest proportion of firms at greater than average risk of insolvency of anywhere in the UK, although the percentage of Scottish companies at elevated risk has risen sharply over the last six months, according to research from insolvency and restructuring trade body R3. In the April figures, Scotland has the lowest overall…
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