Author Archives for James Booth

A shipping firm was today fined £850,000 for bribery in Angola that secured it contracts worth $20m (£15.8m). FH Bertling, [...]

Deloitte has promoted 78 to its partnership in the UK, an increase of more than 40 per cent on the [...]

Law firm DWF said today it grew revenue 15 per cent in 2019 in its first trading update since it [...]

HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) is increasingly targeting C-suite executives personally as it looks to hold businesses to account. The [...]

Only one in five UK businesses has a terrorism insurance policy in place, according to a survey published today. Research [...]

An unregulated forex trading firm is set to go into liquidation leaving retail investors millions of pounds out of pocket. [...]

A major shareholder in Provident Financial has come out to publicly oppose rival doorstep lender Non-Standard Finance’s (NSF) hostile takeover [...]

Metro Bank has dramatically reined in its lending to real estate clients as it tries to rebalance its loan portfolio. [...]

Business confidence in London fell nine points in May to 10 per cent, according to a study published today. Companies [...]

The number of notifications to the EU Commission about potentially unlawful tax breaks has rocketed as countries take a tougher [...]

Private bank Raphaels has been fined £1.89m for poor controls over its outsourcing arrangements. The 230-year old bank was fined [...]

Ride sharing giant Uber has struck a deal with a US insurtech startup to offer digital insurance for its drivers. [...]

Challenger banks are struggling to break the stranglehold of the big five banks on the UK's £1.3 trillion cash deposit [...]

The City of London Police apologised today after the trial of eight defendants accused of fraudulent carbon credit and diamond [...]