Colin Haig, President of insolvency and restructuring trade body R3, responds to the government’s announcement that it will bring in new laws requiring pre-pack administration sales to be independently scrutinised: “Having agreed that it should be mandatory for sales to connected party purchasers in pre-packs to be referred for an independent opinion, we broadly welcome […]
The site comprises five adjoining properties situated on Castle Street in the centre of Salisbury. 24-36 Castle Street is strategically positioned on one of the main roads into Salisbury. There is a previous planning consent which was for a 56-bedroom boutique hotel, Café/Bar and fine dining restaurant, which has now lapsed. The properties occupy a […]
Social Platform Licklist is widening its market with the rebrand of its b2b arm to Booked it ahead of a £1.75m funding round. Licklist was founded in 2015 with a focus on the nightlife industry, providing solutions for organising a night out. The platform has over 600,000 users, annual gross sales over £6m and 6000 […]
Bankers, interviewed for the Trade Finance ‘Pulse Check’, unanimously call for an urgent switch in the focus of support towards the private sector and smaller enterprises to avoid an insolvency crisis The Pulse check report issued by a consortium of multilateral development banks and trade research institutions, recounts the views of sub-Saharan banks on multi-lateral […]
Covering the five weeks 30 August – 03 October 2020 According to BRC-ShopperTrak data: Year-on-year UK Footfall decreased by 30.1% in September, with only a 4.7 percentage point improvement from August. This remains below the longer-term 12-month average decline of 30.3%. Footfall on high streets declined by 36.9% year on year. They were the most […]
Monument is delighted to announce that it has received an ‘authorisation with restriction’ (AWR) banking licence from the UK regulatory authorities, the Prudential Regulation Authority and the Financial Conduct Authority. It has achieved this milestone in just over 18 months, which is believed to be one of the fastest rates of progress for any new […]
Following Covid-19, improving health and wellbeing offerings could offer hospitality and leisure businesses £21.1bn in additional revenue by 2023. An additional 4.8 million Brits, or 9% of the UK population, now say health & wellness is ‘extremely important’ to them after Covid-19 61% of businesses plan to invest more on health and wellbeing offerings in […]
Arbuthnot Latham has provided more than £23m of refinancing to help the private real estate investment firm, Castleforge Partners with current and future value-add opportunities. Since it was founded in 2010 by Brandon Hollihan and Michael Kovacs, Castleforge Partners has invested over £1bn throughout the UK and Europe and has consistently generated returns above expectations […]
EQ (Equiniti Group plc), the international technology-led services and payments specialist, is pleased to announce that seven of its services have been approved as suppliers for the government’s G-Cloud 12 framework. EQ’s digital capabilities, which are provided by its specialist division EQ Digital, have been a permanent fixture on the G-Cloud framework since its inception […]
Nucleus Commercial Finance today announces the appointment of Andy Bird as business development director of Property Finance. Andy brings with him 30 years’ industry experience and will be central to developing a new property proposition for Nucleus, to sit alongside the lender’s current offering. Andy joins from Santander where he was relationship director for real […]
