The government is to introduce new laws to help protect company directors from identity fraud and personal harm by allowing them to remove their personal address from the company register at Companies House

The Treasury Committee has announced a new inquiry into digital currencies and distributed ledger technology, in a bid to ensure government understands cryptocurrency more thoroughly, and to encourage debate around the policy environment for blockchain technology

Croner Taxwise tax consultant David Woolley answers questions about complex tax issues. This week he considers tax compliance issues relating to the sale of partnership assets when a partner decides to leave the partnership

The financial services sector was the hardest hit by fraud, cyber and security incidents during 2017, while the majority of executives in the professional services industry report their companies had experienced a fraud incident in the past year, according to global research by security consultants Kroll

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) is seeking views on how technology can make it easier for firms to meet their regulatory reporting requirements and improve the quality of the information they provide

Chris Pole and Mark Orton, partners from KPMG Restructuring, have been appointed joint administrators to specialist meat supplier Russell Hume Ltd, which was the centre of a food standards scare last month and which has now ceased trading with the loss of over 250 jobs

An historic Scottish textiles factory which was the preferred supplier of bespoke cricket sweaters to the MCC has gone into provisional liquidation with the loss of over 40 jobs, citing rising import costs as much of its material was sourced from the EU

William Hill Group (WHG) has been fined £6.2m after a Gambling Commission investigation identified ‘systemic’ failure to prevent money laundering activity and breaches of social responsibility regulations at the betting firm

When a CFO or other top executive of a company being audited was formerly employed by the accounting firm conducting the audit there is a risk from the ‘familiarity threat’ which can undermine audit independence and ‘breed coziness’, according to a report from the American Accounting Association which says the ‘revolving door’ might need to be closed

KPMG’s head of audit as well as the audit partner for Carillion are scheduled to face MPs this week in the latest evidence session, with the inquiry releasing letters indicating that prior to the outsourcer’s collapse, a major shareholder was considering suing over losses incurred due to ‘unreliable’ financial information

Nick Reed and Bob Maxwell, partners with Begbies Traynor in Leeds, have been appointed as joint administrators of Great Northern Envelope Company (GNE), and has sold the company to a rival in a pre-pack deal which preserves 129 jobs

Defined benefit pension schemes are at risk as funds are ransacked by companies, covenants are breached and trustees appear to have few powers. Anne-Marie Winton, partner at ARC Pensions Law LLP, considers the issue in light of the Carillion collapse