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…
DetailsTen 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…
DetailsThe 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…
DetailsMonday, Aug. 15, 2016 | 2 a.m. Xenophon Peters, Esq. By Attorney Xenophon Peters, Esq., Partner, Peters and Associates, LLP Student loan debt and the cost of higher education in the United States are hotly contested and pressing issues for consumers, educational institutions and lawmakers. Marketwatch reports there is $1.3 trillion owed in student loan…
DetailsThe 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…
DetailsImproved business performance and expected unlocking from the listing of its 57 per cent diagnostic subsidiary, SRL, helped the Fortis stock gain 20 per cent over the past month. On August 4, the board of directors had given in-principle approval to demerge the diagnostic business. A restructuring committee, formed to decide on the…
DetailsKVV Group will turn to an international court over insolvency proceedings started against the metallurgical company KVV Liepajas Metalurgs, as KVV Group’s press secretary Natalya Napadovkaya told LETA. KVV Group points out that filing a lawsuit against the state of Latvia with an international court of arbitration is the only way how the company can…
DetailsBy Pascal Kwesiga August 15, 1966 is a signifi cant date in the annals of Ugandas banking industry. It is the day the Central Bank issued the fi rst Ugandan shilling, with sh100 as the largest denomination. Today, the largest denomination is sh50,000. The day also marked the commencement of the operations of Bank of…
DetailsDonald Trump speaking with supporters at a campaign rally at the South Point Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada. February 22, 2016Photo Credit: Gage Skidmore/Flickr CC In an extensive tell-all written for Politico, a former employee for Trump Magazine documents a cash-strapped and dysfunctional company where paychecks bounced, the power was shut off due to unpaid…
DetailsROBYN EDIE/FAIRFAX NZ Salvation Army corp officer Captain Annette Bray is hoping to get a finance scheme running in Invercargill before the end of the year. A community finance scheme is about to be launched in Southland to help combat debt problems in the region. The scheme is being launched by the Salvation Army. Salvation…
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