The Queen’s speech announces changes to tighten up governance on master trusts which are part of multi-employer and auto enrolment pension schemes and to tackle corruption, money laundering and tax evasion

The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA)  has proposed a  package of measures to deliver better banking services to SMEs as part of its provisional decision on remedies to reform retail banking, designed to improve competition and get a better deal for customers, which include encouraging accountants to provide more advice on choice of bank account and sources of funding

The government’s attempts to spend more with reach small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) have stalled, according to a report by the Public Accounts Committee (PAC), which says it not convinced that increasing spending with SMEs is being given sufficient priority, while there is evidence of larger providers continuing to dominate