Consultation on updates to insolvency regime – CCH Daily inc Accountancy Live (subscription) (blog)

BIS says the move is in response to recent large corporate failures and developments in Europe to provide businesses with the tools to facilitate company rescue. Business secretary Sajid Javid said: An increasing international focus on company rescue has helped to shift the perceptions of what constitutes best practice; the UK needs to reflect this…

Deposit Guarantee Fund introduces temporary administration to insolvent bank Mykhailivsky – Interfax

2016-05-24T17:33+02:00 17:33 24.05.2016 The Individuals’ Deposit Guarantee Fund has introduced temporary administration to bank Mykhailivsky (Kyiv) declared insolvent for one month from May 23 to June 22, 2016 inclusively, the fund has said on its website. Temporary administrator is a representative of the fund, Turiy Irkliyenko. The NBU declared the bank insolvent on May 23.…

ICAEW to offer partial licenses for insolvency practitioners – CCH Daily inc Accountancy Live (subscription) (blog)

The new rules came into force from 26 March 2015 with the introduction of the Deregulation Act 2015 and Insolvency (Amendment) Act Northern Ireland 2016, which has opened up qualifying criteria for the authorised regulatory providers for insolvency, allowing ICAEW to expand its current licensing remit. Partial licensing introduces two new types of licence to allow…