Whilst global news is awash with policy change, tariff threats and global ‘peace making’, here in the UK it is well nigh impossible to escape the pre-math of the next Autumn Budget due to be announced at the end of this month. The media is inundated with leaks, briefings, lobbying and febrile speculation. The housing market is almost at a
When the foreign exchange money transfer specialists, Currency Matters Limited was put into Special Administration in October 2025 under the Payment and Electronic Money Institution Insolvency Regulations 2021, Opus became its Special Administrators. Why are Special Administrations needed? A Special Administration is essentially an insolvency process for struggling businesses, which provide a statutory or critical public service or supply, or
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
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
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
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
