The Pensions Regulator (TPR) plans to toughen up its regulatory approach to failing and high risk pension schemes over the next three years as it increases the budget for monitoring and compliance following a spate of pension failures

The Fair Tax campaign has announced the speakers for its June conference, when leaders from FTSE 100 companies, MPs, economists and tax campaigners will debate tax transparency

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

Finance Mole targets debt collection as a spring priority but gets off to a shaky start by failing to dodge the Managing Director, also HMRC suffers a pensions blunder, FRC is fighting for survival and KPMG ditches its plastic cups

The use of blockchain across the financial services industry risks being significantly delayed by the damaging publicity associated with cryptocurrencies, warns law firm Gowling WLG

Louise Scott, PwC UK sustainability and climate change director, explains how the United Nations' sustainable development goals (SDGs) should be integral to annual reporting and considers how to integrate the challenging goals into annual sustainability reports

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

Payslips for all workers, stricter enforcement of holiday pay and bigger financial penalties for employers who break the law are among 37 recommendations to stop the exploitation of low paid workers set out in the first annual report from the director of labour market enforcement

HMRC is raking up its biggest successes and highest yields from investigations into tax compliance by large businesses, which produced £77 for every £1 spent last year, with an estimated £24.8bn recovered

Initial transition talks have started but there is little clarity about the future validity of contracts during the pre-Brexit period. Richard Smith and Stuart Pickford, partners at law firm Mayer Brown, consider how to Brexit proof contracts to avoid commercial disputes and identify potential pitfalls

ICAEW has issued guidance and a quick checklist for accountants to ensure they comply with the General Data Protection Regulations, due to come into force on 25 May