Board’s role ‘off limits’ in police probe of alleged £1bn HBOS fraud
THE police force investigating an alleged £1 billion fraud at the former Reading operation of HBOS has no plans to probe […]
prepackaged administrations
Banking’s Abu Ghraib
A fourth person has been arrested in relation to Thames Valley Police’s investigation into “corruption and large-scale fraud in connection
Is BGC Partners being honest about its Mint deal?
David Mills, the founder of Core Enterprise Management and Quayside Corporate Services, is a past master of prepackaged administrations and
Bust air firm may provide key to HBOS “controls failures”
Directors of an aviation business that crash-landed owing HBOS £113 million in September 2007 were allowed to buy the business
What’s in a name? As failed accountants Vantis serially phoenix, Beavis and FRP by other names could smell as stale
A couple of new names have risen in the accountancy and insolvency practitioner firmament —Beavis Morgan and FRP Advisory. But
Examining HBOS
If Lloyds Banking Group or the UK authorities ever get round to properly investigating the £1bn HBOS Reading fraud, they
Scottish Agenda: The revolving door that shuts out taxpayers
Is the taxpayer losing out in pre-packaged administrations that leave state-owned banks swallowing debts? Can we call pre-packaged administrations —