Window cleaning boss banned after failing to account for £1.7m – Mirage News

Nicola Bentley (39), from Oxted, Surrey, was the sole director of Stephensons (National Window Cleaning) Ltd and has now been disqualified from being a company director for 7 years. Her ban is effective from 31 December 2020. The company was incorporated in January 2017 and provided window cleaning services, predominantly for bookmakers. The window cleaners…

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US corporate bankruptcies end 2020 at 10-year high amid COVID-19 pandemic – S&P Global

U.S. corporate bankruptcies reached their worst levels in 10 years in 2020 as the coronavirus pandemic upended global industries and struggling companies faced their breaking points. A total of 630 companies declared bankruptcy in 2020, according to an analysis by S&P Global Market Intelligence. This surpassed the number of filings in every year since 2010.…

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Scarborough named local authority with the highest personal insolvencies in England and Wales R3 comments on 2019 statistics – Bdaily

Member Article The latest annual personal insolvency statistics for 2019, recently released by the Insolvency Service, show that even before the financial effects of COVID-19 hit peoples incomes, Yorkshire and the Humber once again saw above-average rates, and Scarborough recorded the highest level of personal insolvencies of any local authority across England and Wales. Insolvency…

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The crash of an education startup left Chinese parents disillusioned – CGTN

When Duan Jun, a father from the city of Dongguan in southern China’s Guangdong Province, paid full-year tuition for his child in advance, he never thought that the online education institution would go bankrupt. Xuebajun, a video-tutoring platform that follows a one-on-one format, was recently reported to be in dire financial situation and was on…

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