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Business | Royal Mail fined £21m for late post deliveries

Ofcom has fined Royal Mail a record £21m for late deliveries of first and second class letters, one of the largest fines the regulator has ever handed out

15 Oct 2025

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Business | AI poses specific ethical threats for accountants, warns ACCA/CISI

Global Ethics Day warning from accountancy and financial services bodies with call for urgent action to deal with AI’s ethical challenges

15 Oct 2025

Business | Cooper Parry snaps up disruptor Hutcheon Mearns

Private equity backed Cooper Parry has acquired Scottish firm Hutcheon Mearns to expand reach north of the border with four new Scottish offices

14 Oct 2025

Business | Luxury brand La Perla rescued in cross-border insolvency deal

Quantuma saves 200 jobs in La Perla sale as liquidators of collapsed Italian luxury lingerie brand finalise sale to US billionaire after complex negotiations with Italian insolvency experts

13 Oct 2025

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Restructuring & Insolvency

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Business | HW Fisher acquires MMC forensic audit firm

Private equity backed HW Fisher, part of Sumer Group, has acquired Media Marketing Compliance (MMC), a specialist in contract compliance auditing to expand global forensic audit offering

13 Oct 2025

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Business | Top 75 Firms Trainees Survey 2025: tech threats and funding cuts

In this month’s exclusive Top 75 Trainees Survey, EY takes top slot as the largest accountancy trainer, pushing out PwC, but twin threats of AI and funding cuts loom large, despite overall numbers hitting nearly 27,000. Philip Smith analyses the current trends and future risks

13 Oct 2025

Business | Three in four companies allow staff to remote work abroad

Spike in businesses giving UK based employees the option to work abroad for some of their working time, as long as tax compliance in place

10 Oct 2025

Leadership & Management

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Business | 94% of UK accountants lack confidence in economy

Majority worried about economic outlook, citing lack of growth, high employment taxes and continuing dissatisfaction with HMRC service levels as major concerns

8 Oct 2025

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Business | Car finance compensation will average £700 payout

Payouts on an expected 14m unfair motor finance agreements could start next year, under an industry-wide compensation scheme

8 Oct 2025

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Law & Guidance

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Business | Company shut down as front for illegal insolvency work

A Manchester company duped dozens of directors by acting as a front to offer insolvency services when it was a shadow firm for a defunct business

7 Oct 2025

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Called to Account

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Business | Deloitte report falls foul of AI hallucinations

Deloitte has to repay part of a six-figure consulting fee after AI hallucinated some of the findings in a report on benefit penalties for the Australian government

6 Oct 2025

Business | Denmark loses ‘flimsy’ £1.4bn dividend tax case

High Court rules against Danish tax authorities over £1.4bn cum-ex dividend refunds case, saying controls for paying claims were ‘so flimsy as to be almost non-existent’

3 Oct 2025

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Business | CPD module: AI - current risks and what to do about them

This month's exclusive CPD module focuses on AI and the current risks from usage and compliance to client protection and managing scope creep

3 Oct 2025

Business | 80% of SMEs have not borrowed to invest in Q2

A major survey of Barclays Bank business customers has reinforced the widespread concern about new tax rises with a reluctance to borrow and invest across SMEs

1 Oct 2025

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Business | Scammers target solicitors to steal property deposits

A spike in payment diversion fraud has seen property buyers losing their deposits as solicitors fall prey to scammers as transactions are being processed

1 Oct 2025

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