As banks and financial institutions try to resolve the bad loan cases there is huge demand for insolvency resolution professionals. So far, chartered accountants, company secretaries and lawyers have walked away with the mandate to provide resolution professional services. Non-professionals, including graduates from non-commerce backgrounds and having management experience of 15 years, and who have…
A scathing MPs report into the collapse of Carillion has revealed the stricken construction giant paid almost £4 million to an array of City firms in the days before it was declared insolvent. According to todays report, on 12 January, three days before the company went under and one day before chairman Philip Green wrote…
Shares and bonds of Reliance Communications Ltd. tumbled after an Indian court ordered that the wireless carrier be placed in insolvency proceedings, jeopardizing its proposed $3.7 billion asset sale to Reliance Jio Infocomm Ltd. Shares of RCom, as the company is known, plunged 15.3 percent to 10.5 rupees in Mumbai, while its 2020 dollar bonds…
Shares and bonds of Reliance Communications Ltd. tumbled after an Indian tribunal ordered that the wireless carrier be placed in insolvency proceedings, jeopardizing its proposed $3.7 billion asset sale to Reliance Jio Infocomm Ltd. Shares of RCom, as the company is known, dropped as much as 9.7 percent on Wednesday…
Brokers and investment platforms have admitted they are powerless to prevent customer funds being tapped in the event of an insolvency, after a brokerage collapsed with huge ramifications for investors. Some clients of Beaufort Securities, which was closed by Financial Conduct Authority in March, have been told they will have to foot the bill for…
One of the UKs largest personal insolvency providers has opened a new office in Salford. Creditfix, which looks after tens of thousands of customers, has taken on 4,500 sq ft in the Lowry Mill. The site has been refurbished to accommodate the creation of up to 50 jobs. Chief executive Pearse Flynn believes taking the…
Every page of the jaw-dropping MPs report on Carillion has detail to make the blood boil. No one comes out looking good: The Pensions Regulator was feeble; the Financial Reporting Council toothless; crown representatives to Carillion served no noticeable purpose. And thats before you get to the Big Four accountancy firms, or the Carillion directors…
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Every page of the jaw-dropping MPs report on Carillion has detail to make the blood boil. No one comes out looking good: The Pensions Regulator was feeble; the Financial Reporting Council toothless; crown representatives to Carillion served no noticeable purpose. And thats before you get to the Big Four accountancy firms, or the Carillion directors…
by Gill Plimmer British MPs have demanded the UK’s big four accountancy firms be referred to competition authorities for potential break-up following the collapse of government contractor Carillion, calling them a “cosy club incapable of providing the degree of independent challenge needed”. The recommendation by members of two powerful parliamentary committees was contained in a…