Skip to content Skip to footer

Restructuring & Insolvency

economic overview October 2025

Economic overview for October 2025

Despite the political disruption so evident recently in the UK, with mass demonstrations and protests and the domination of the narrative by immigration issues, what matters most for the business community is the interminable wait for the next Budget, still not due until the end of November. In the meanwhile, the economy stalls, while fear of tax rises and other

Read More
International risks

International risks and meaningful due diligence

Despite disturbances in the commercial Force, such as Brexit or US tariffs, the UK is fundamentally a trading nation, buying and selling goods and services all around the world. Indeed, those sorts of disruptions mean that British businesses are constantly having to deal with new stakeholders in new markets. This creates a quite different set of risks from relationships within

Read More
Economic overview September 2025

Economic overview for September 2025

Much of the economic focus so far this year has been on the tariff chaos cascading from the White House, but with the passing of the latest trade talks deadline at the beginning of August it may be that calmer financial geopolitics lie ahead. The UK remains very much a favoured-nation with its overall rate of 10% compared to higher

Read More
UK companies reducing borrowings

Why UK companies are reducing borrowings

Each month we publish a report into the financial fortunes of one of the major sectors in the UK economy, covering in turn retail, hospitality, construction, manufacturing and logistics amongst others. This gives us a view of the economic weather in each industry on a broadly bi-annual basis. Over the past two to three years most of these sectors have

Read More
Economic Overview August 2025

Economic overview for August 2025

It’s been difficult for some months now to focus on anything other than the geopolitical mayhem emanating from the White House, whether it is the shilly-shallying over tariffs or the apparently empty rhetoric about the endlessly imminent solution of the many vicious conflicts around the world. The degree to which utterly extraordinary events have become normalised is an astonishing development,

Read More
Autumn Budget

Weathering the Autumn Budget cost storm

The 2024 Autumn Budget had significant implications for UK businesses, introducing a wide range of cost increases effective from April 2025. As organisations across sectors grapple with an uncertain economic landscape, these changes are being felt at every level, from small enterprises to large multinationals. The key measures in the Autumn Budget The major provisions of the Budget affecting the business

Read More
No more posts to show