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As featured in BBC News, Sky News, Reuters, Investors Chronicle and Metro 17.12.18

The number of restaurants going insolvent has breached 1,000 for the first time since the figures were first tracked in 2010.

We’ve done our risk management training, so know all about ‘Likelihood’ and ‘Impact’ and we’ve identified the primary areas of risk facing our company. The trouble is, we’re not alone.

HMRC has given into pressure from the hospice sector and has agreed that continuing care funding can be treated as outside the scope of VAT.

Shipping confidence dipped slightly in the three months to end-November 2018, according to the latest Confidence Survey from international accountant and shipping adviser Moore Stephens.
 

Moore Stephens Corporate Finance team has successfully advised Top Online Partners Group, which owns TopCashback, during its discussions with Maple Syrup Group, which owns Quidco and Shoop, as the two companies aim to join forces to create a prominent, global group within the money-saving industry.

The FCA recently conducted a Thematic Review of ‘Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing in the E-Money Sector’. Here’s a quick update on the Regulator’s findings – with some useful reminders for firms about required and expected practice.
 

Simon Baylis, Partner and Head of Private Client Services, has been named as one of the Top 50 Most Influential by eprivateclient, the leading website and news service for private client practitioners.

The latest headline hack is a shocking reminder of the need for constant vigilance to protect organisations from malicious minds.

While most UK business know that HMRC is embracing digital technology through the Making Tax Digital initiative and that businesses affected must replacing manual processes with digital record keeping by 1 April 2019, many financial services firms are unsure how exactly it will impact the sector.

In the latest move by the Regulator to protect retail consumers from harm caused by some complex derivative products, permanent measures have been proposed today to ban the sale and marketing of binary options to retail customers and apply restrictions for CFDs.