The Insolvency Service is to publish guidance for employers and insolvency practitioners to clarify how to manage staff redundancies during insolvency to address incompatibilities between insolvency and employment law identified in a call for evidence

Despite efforts to force companies to disclose their ownership through the PSC register, tens of thousands of British companies are still not complying with the rules brought in to counter fraud and money laundering

Peter Montagnon, associate director of the Institute of Business Ethics, on why creating a positive company wide culture has to start with the board and considers key culture indicators and how to use them to understand corporate behaviour

Baldwins accountancy group, the highly acquisitve member of CogitalGroup, is continuing on the merger trail, and has expanded its presence in Scotland after taking over an Ayr-based accountancy firm

Carillion has been branded a ‘notorious late payer’, despite signing up to the government’s prompt payment code, in evidence provided to the work and pensions and BEIS select committees’ inquiry into the collapsed outsourcer, reports Pat Sweet

Liza Robbins has been appointed to succeed Jon Lisby as CEO of global accounting network, Kreston International with effect from 1 August

Financial services multimillionaire Peter Hargreaves who saw his career take off when he founded investment management platform Hargreaves Lansdown is following fellow billionaire Elon Musk by making his next move into space, with a £24m investment in the Goonhilly satellite tracking station in Cornwall

FTSE 350 boards are being urged to take action to become more inclusive and assign directors specific responsibility for disability issues, after research by KPMG and disability consultancy Purple found almost 60% of businesses do not currently have a named disability champion at the board or senior management level

Hiring in the top ranks of tax partners remain dominated by men according to an analysis of recruiting patterns around the world prepared by executive search specialist Wilkinson Partners

Bookmaker William Hill is the latest high profile organisation to face a shareholder storm over executive pay rates, with 30.71% voting against the FTSE 250 company’s renumeration report, largely on the basis of concerns over plans to boost the chief executive’s pay

Crowe Horwath International is to rebrand the network and the 189 international member firms will adopt the name Crowe globally

Almost a third of companies (31%)  expect to move staff from the UK because of Brexit, a rise of more than 10% since the summer of 2017, according to the latest Thomson Reuters quarterly poll of chief financial officers (CFOs)