To some last year’s travails were a first test for the changed IFRS standards that took on new forms after the 2008 crisis. Others, meanwhile, were calling out for exceptional measures, as opposed to trusting in the standard frameworks. Jeroen Van Doorsselaere explains

Tens of thousands of small businesses forced to close during the first lockdown are in line for insurance pay-outs, after the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) won a test case set to cost insurers over £1bn in claims

Begbies Traynor is to pay some £20m for independent firm CVR in its largest insolvency acquisition to date, which will see the group add its first overseas offices