Dear Annie: I apparently failed as a parent at teaching my daughter financial responsibility. I raised her as a single parent and worked hard to provide for us. After a few difficult years when she was young, I achieved a fair degree of financial success as a professional. I must have made her think money…
A higher education advocacy group is looking to bring attention to student debt relief companies marketing to borrowers services they could be getting free from the federal government. Student Debt Crisis, a group that advocates on student loan issues through petitions and outreach efforts, says debt relief companies, while legal, often aggressively market services to…
NORTHERN Ireland businesses have the second lowest insolvency risk in the UK according to the latest tracker from insolvency and restructuring trade body, R3. Overall, 21 per cent of Northern Irish businesses are considered to have a heightened risk, compared to the UK average of 23.8 per cent. Ten key sectors were scrutinised for the…
Ten Alps which in May won a Bafta award for its documentary The Murder Detectives has signalled trouble within the business over the past few months. In June it said a substantial investor had agreed to extend the term of a £750,000 loan, and at the start of July chief executive Mark Wood stepped down with…
The anonymous holder of the Twitter account SATobacco Espionage @EspionageSA signed up on 4 August, describing the accounts intention to expose Industrial Espionage Money Laundering in Tobacco Industry by Corporate Company British American Tobacco. The accounts first post referenced a WikiSpooks entry on notorious apartheid assassin, Craig Williamson, described by @EspionageSA as Handler to the…