Why does insolvency reduce business value?
One of the great commercial puzzles is why the unsecured creditors of an apparently healthy business end up only recovering pennies in the pound on their debts and
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The hard realities of ‘soft credit’
Those who run and manage businesses are familiar with the two traditional sources of funding. They understand balance sheet finance, whether it is debt from lenders or equity
A review of 2022 complex international insolvency cases – the challenges and how they were addressed
What do the collapse of a major cryptocurrency exchange, Britain’s allegedly biggest-ever personal insolvency and the devastation of one of Russia’s major gold mining businesses by post-Ukraine invasion
As CBILS defaults rise, what now for struggling borrowers?
The Coronavirus Business Interruption Loan Scheme (CBILS Scheme) One of the three main pandemic loan mechanisms, the CBIL Scheme, ran from March 2020 to March 2021. Lenders advanced
Debt collection challenges as business energy price support is slashed
The government’s cut in support for businesses on their energy costs announced in the new Energy Bills Discount Scheme was expected, but the scale of it has left
How will businesses be affected by the energy support cut?
As energy prices disappeared off the chart in the wake of the Ukraine conflict, the government opened its coffers last autumn and wrote what has turned out to