Selling your business: Are you thinking ahead?
By JOHN FOUNDLING
CHOOSING the right time to sell a business can be a challenge. There's often a temptation to wait and see whether organic...
When a B really means an A+
YORKSHIRE-based education firm High Speed Training is celebrating B Corp certification.
The scheme, run by global non-profit B Lab, verifies that a business meets high...
Light-fingered employees’ cost-of-living hack
More workers are committing fraud and just plain stealing from their employers to make ends meet
EMPLOYEE theft has jumped by 19 percent as the...
Lengthy bans for directors who fiddled Covid scheme
AN AVERAGE of 35 directors are being banned by the UK Insolvency Service each month for abusing the Covid Support Scheme.
That’s almost treble the...
Twists and turns of the Wirecard scandal resemble a crime thriller
With the start of the trial of ex-CEO Markus Braun, here is the background story of the Wirecard fraud. This article was first published...
Mining giant guilty of bribery charges
A MINING subsidiary has pleaded guilty in a London court to seven counts of bribery in Africa.
Britain’s Serious Fraud Office exposed "profit-driven” bribery and...
SMEs and the wolf at the door
By LUCY TROTT and KATIE PHILIPSON
THROUGHOUT the pandemic, a steady stream of government support was made available to prop-up businesses.
As we move towards a...
Company boards ‘flounder on diversity and inclusion’
A REPORT by the Pension and Lifetime Savings Association (PLSA) Diversity and Inclusion points to a lack of trustee board diversity in the UK.
It...
Bezos stepping-down — ish: a new role for Amazon head
JEFF BEZOS is stepping-down as chief executive of Amazon, but "this isn't about retiring,” he has announced.
The billionaire, who founded the e-commerce giant some...
ESG integration boost for Blackrock’s DC strategy
US INVESTMENT company BlackRock’s UK Defined Contribution (DC) default strategy, LifePath, is moving to the next phase of ESG integration.
The move will increase LifePath UK’s ESG exposure,...
