Debt payment delays could lead to ‘liquidity crunch’, warns McGrathNicol – The Australian Financial Review

Smaller contractors and building materials companies could face a liquidity crunch if big construction and engineering groups keep delaying payments to suppliers, McGrathNicol has warned. Construction and engineering companies paid suppliers 10.5 days more slowly in 2016-17 than they did a year earlier, reversing the previous trend of paying suppliers faster, according to the insolvency…

‘It was bleak and life changing’ – Finbarr Filan on bankruptcy, guilt and his Westlife brother, Shane – Independent.ie

Shafin Developments, the property company the brothers established together, went bust in 2012. The singer, faced with a bill of 23m, was declared bankrupt. His brother Finbarr has revealed he was declared bankrupt last Monday to the tune of 15 million.   In a column in the Sunday Business Post, the Sligo businessman, who is chair…