Credit, Collections & Insolvency News
In the latest report into the collapse of Carillion, the Work and Pensions and Beis committees called Carillion’s rise and fall “a story of recklessness, hubris and greed” Responding to the publication of the Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy and Work and Pensions Committees’ full report on Carillion, Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) National Chairman…
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New research by Moore Stephens has found that there has been an 83% rise in the number of care home businesses entering insolvency, from 81 in 2016/17 to 148 in 2017/18. With many care home places being paid for by Local Authorities, the sector has been struggling since the Government cut local authority funding during…
Read moreAhead of the launch of the final report of their inquiry into the collapse of Carillion this week, the Work and Pensions and BEIS Committees has published evidence from Santander, the bank which operated Carillion’s Early Payment Facility. The report has found that despite being signatories of the Prompt Payment Code, Carillion were “notorious late…
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Research from the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) has highlighted poor payment practices epidemic running through public sector supply chains putting many small firms at risk FSB’s new data, which is part of wider forthcoming research into how the UK can better use supply chains, shows that nine out of ten (89%) public sector suppliers have been paid late. This…
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New research from insolvency firm, Begbies Traynor has revealed that nearly 43,000 retailers ended the period in a state of ‘Significant’ financial distress. According to Begbies Traynor’s Red Flag Alert research for Q1 2018, which monitors the financial health of UK companies, 42,958 retailers were experiencing ‘Significant’ financial distress at the end of March 2018, up 21%…
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Administration notices have been issued and advertised in the London Gazette for the following companies: ACG CONTRACTS LTD ALAN GRANT GRAMPIAN LTD AMARYLLIS LTD ATKINSON TRAVIS LTD BARGAIN BOOZE LTD BETTERWARE LTD BOB CROSBY AGENCIES LTD BOURGEE RESTAURANTS (CHELMSFORD) LTD BOURGEE RESTAURANTS LTD BOWSER SUPPLY LTD BRITISH THORNTON ESF LTD CHARLES ST LTD CHARON INTERNATIONAL TRADING…
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Winding up Petitions (Companies) have been issued and advertised in the London Gazette for the following companies: 21ST CENTURY ECO-HOMES LTD 321 TRAVEL LTD 3RD POINT THINKING LTD A S ELECTRICAL SERVICES (SOUTHERN) LTD A. G. AXTON & SONS (WHOLESALE) LTD ABACUS WILLS & TRUSTS LTD ABD CORPORATE SERVICES LTD ACCH (HENDON) LTD ACQUISITION 395448472…
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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…
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