UK Business News

A new website is bringing the latest research from leading institutions to investors and businesses in the South East.
A new collaboration between five of the South East’s leading research institutions launched today. South East IP brings together the latest research from five research institutions across the South East, making it available to business and investors [...]

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The shipping industry has been warned by a leading maritime lawyer that it may soon face its “Deepwater Horizon moment” in the event of a mega containership casualty.
Speaking at a Maritime London lunch earlier this month, Holman Fenwick Willan partner Andrew Chamberlain said that the consequences of a serious incident involving one of the larger [...]

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It was quite usual not so long ago to recruit independent trustees on the ‘nod-and-a-wink’  recommendation of a friendly pension fund professional. But not now. Several major scandals during the latter-half of the 20th century helped change the pensions landscape forever and shaped the role of the trustee that we see today.
As a consequence of [...]

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Equifax analysis shows businesses struggling in Q2 2011, as failures across the UK increase compared to Q1 2011 and year-on-year.
According to the latest Business Failures figures from leading business information provider, Equifax, the number of businesses going bust has risen by 2.2% in Quarter 2 2011, compared to Quarter 1. In the North West business, [...]

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UK Finance Minister George Osborne is set to make a speech today in the House of Commons outlining the UK coalition governments’ recommendation to ring-fence banks’ retail divisions.
Though this is the main business news today, this idea was first muted back in April when the Independent Commission on Banking (ICB), which was set up in [...]

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