Industry News & Insight

We post regularly in our news and insight section discussing current industry topics, covering all divisions within the Group.

Scottish Business – State of the Nation Post Pandemic

The furlough scheme ended in September 2021 and from then on, creditors were once more able to issue Winding Up Petitions to recover outstanding debts. […]

Global Insolvency Pandemic trends – why is the UK an outlier?

May 27, 2022

As the Coronavirus outbreak morphed into a once-in-a-century pandemic in early 2020, governments all round the world started to pour unprecedented sums into their economies […]

Supporting staff through the cost of living crisis

May 13, 2022

The pandemic brought huge disruption to businesses of all shapes and sizes; over the least two years, their staff have had to endure once-in-a-career disruption […]

Is inflation the last straw for the food & beverage sector?

We reported in detail on the finances and risks in the food and beverage sector in early December 2021, just as the Omicron variant was […]

Croydon Council plunges into Insolvency crisis

Insolvency: Why is Croydon Council declaring itself insolvent? Croydon Council became only the second UK local authority in twenty years to declare itself insolvent when […]

The cash flow cliff edge is coming – is your business ready?

Financial help for businesses The Coronavirus crisis has created the most difficult financial climate in living memory, maybe for best part of a century. Equally, […]

Business survival: When is it time to throw in the towel?

The Pandemic is threatening to cause a financial crisis to equal of even surpass the horrors of The Great Depression almost a century ago. There […]

BBC Interview – Travel Industry – Financial Challenges

Travel industry – the financial challenges being faced Our Partner, Steve Parker speaks to Samantha Fenwick on the You and Yours Radio Show about the […]

Financial challenges in the legal sector

Solicitors could be forgiven for wondering where the next hammer blow will fall, after a terrible year since the introduction of the Jackson reforms to […]

The financial crisis gripping the UK care home sector

What are the key pressure points putting care homes at risk of financial failure? Steve Parker, a licensed insolvency practitioner and a partner at Opus […]