The business and personal finance media has for some time been awash with talk of fintech disruptors muscling in on the financial services market. A particular focus has been their apparent ability to take advantage of the malaise endemic across the banking market since the global financial crisis and the sector’s antediluvian technology. It now seems that the threat to
Our Business Risk Advisor, Nick Hood was interviewed for the BBC Radio 4 consumer affairs programme You & Yours on the implications of the changes to Business Rates announced in yesterday’s Budget. Click here to listen to the audio clip
Opus partner, Jo Rolls, and Pinsent Mason partner, Roger Phillips explain the details of the Qatar insolvency regime.
Opus comments in the Independent on the challenges facing retailers from introducing the Living Wage. Firms will only have to pay the “national living wage” to staff aged 25 or over when it starts in April. Under half of top retailers have so far promised to pay all staff the same rate for the same work, regardless of age. Simon Neville
Opus describes the threats facing the UK residential care market in a review by the Sunday Express. Research shows that out of the UK’s 5,500 care home operators, as many as 1,650 companies are struggling financially, of those up to a quarter, which account for 1,500 sites, to fall into insolvency over the next three years. Click here to read the full story
Opus looks at how the WHO report on processed foods will affect key sectors, particularly agriculture and food processing in an article in City AM: It’s official – eating processed meat is a major cause of cancer, and it could spell trouble ahead for Britain’s farming industry …. Click here to read full article
