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Bob: Stuart, we have known each other for longer than either of us cares to remember. The news of the Bibby acquisition came as a surprise. When did Bibby first approach you? Read More. VAT carousels – relief for innocent tradersWhat happened in Bond House Systems? February 2006
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Guarantees? No such thingTime for caution August 2005
In my early days as a banker one of the most influential mentors I ever met told me: “The guarantee is the easiest security to take and the hardest to realise”. The word guarantee is intended to convey an impression of a fail-safe foundation but has often proved to be a sad deception. Read more. |
Robert Lefroy |
DLA Piper Rudnick Gray Cary's Global Services Bulletin looks at the UK's House of Lords ruling on book debts
June 2005
The UK’s House of Lords has held that a charge on book debts cannot be characterised as fixed where the company granting the security can freely draw on the proceeds of the book debts. The Lords declined the banks’ invitation to apply their judgment prospectively only. The decision will therefore apply to all past and future cases where a bank has purported to take a fixed charge over book debts but failed to exercise control over their proceeds. Read more.
Through members' eyesWhere open account meets open mind. Robert Lefroy, group editor interviews Tony Cox, IFG chairman
"Our real core business is providing services to our members that are consistent with their needs and the needs of the market.” Read more. |
Tony Cox |
Property developmentCompetitive advantage from environmental risk May 2005
Let’s be straight about one thing: environmental risk is about cash. Plain and simple, you can make decisions that add value to your business and harm that of your competitors at the same time. Read more. |
Richard Pawlyn |
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A new investment product, unveiled with much fanfare, flops because employees are not adequately trained to sell it; an erroneous trade drops a leading stock market index by a percentage point; an employee is caught embezzling; fire destroys a facility. These disparate events have one thing in common: they all reflect operational risk. Read more. |
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Andrew Stoneman |
Gone are the days when an organisation could afford to dictate terms, oblivious to or regardless of its clients’ needs – client needs must, and thankfully are, now starting to come first. In fact, Business Money, just like the successful and innovative factors in the market today adopts a customer intimate approach. It is not by chance that Bob knows his audience intimately and what they want from a publication – and this is one important reason why we all read it! Read more. |
| The rise and rise of property prices February 2005 |
Mark Alexander |
| The 2006 April pension reforms could have a tremendous knock-on effect in the UK property market, creating the potential for an imminent property boom. Mark Alexander, managing director of The Money Centre, explains why they will have an exciting impact on the potential for returns on investment in the buy-to-let market. .. Read more. |
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The sticky mess of regulatory red tape
January 2005
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Mike Imeson |
When the chairman of one of the world’s biggest banks complains about the burden of financial regulation, you know something must be wrong. HSBC chairman, Sir John Bond drew attention to the rising costs of compliance at the bank’s AGM last year, when he said it spent $400m in 2003 complying with its regulatory obligations around the world. Read more. |
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October 2004 |
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In the last few years, we here in the construction industry have seen a lot of changes...the construction contracting industry is historically and singularly the biggest user of arbitration around. Why? Because it is belligerent, argumentative and stubborn of course, but also because it simply is not allowed to make enough money by doing what it is supposed to do, i.e. build buildings for people who want them... Read more. |
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Rob Pearce |
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All-asset finance UK - the story so far July/August 2004 |
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The world of all-asset finance in Britain is thriving. Impossible to consider during the crazy years of stop-go and double digit interest rates, a stable economy and the lowest interest rates for a couple of decades means that company owners gained a whole new raft of options when considering funding growth, making acquisitions or agreeing to management buy-ins or buy-outs. Read more. |
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Half full - or half empty? Wet trade overview February 2004 |
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A review of the wet trade market including survey results from Christie & Co. . Read more. |
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Someone to watch over me? - Business banking 2004 January 2004 |
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"And so the battle continues. We hear blissfully little of the Cruikshank farce and the Competition Commission fiasco though the amazing response of Gordon Brown lives on." Read more. |
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