Keith Marshall and Gareth Harris of RSM restructuring advisory have been appointed joint administrators of Hartmond Ltd, a Yorkshire-based mobility products supplier, which has collapsed with the loss of all jobs

The UK financial services industry will see slower but continued growth up to 2020 despite challenges on the horizon from Brexit, according to EY analysis published on the day the UK triggers Article 50 to start the official process to leave the EU

The Financial Reporting Council (FRC) has increased its fees on accountancy professional bodies by 2.5% with an overall 5% increase in the fees on preparers, detailed as part of its plan and budget for 2017/18

Organisational culture has consistently been the business topic of recent months. Its influence on risk, and its relevance for regulators and investors, is becoming increasingly tangible. Malcolm Finn, financial controller at Costa Coffee and Mike Cowan, head of finance 4.0 at EY consider the significance of culture in the context of the organisation's finance function, and how culture is key to overall risk management

Despite being surprisingly resilient to Brexit concerns in the run up to 2019, Chris Williamson, chief economist at Markit, forecasts a period of turbulence for the economy as the UK heads towards unchartered waters

Deloitte in the US has acquired substantially all of the assets of Day1 Solutions, a cloud consulting firm, after announcing a commitment to add 3,000 high-tech engineering jobs and open new cloud studios in the US over the next year

Business minister, Margot James, has called on FTSE 350 companies to increase diversity, with the largest companies urged to take up the McGregor-Smith review recommendations on black and ethnic minority progression in the workplace

AlixPartners has been appointed as administrators to the discount chain 99p Stores, having been called in by Poundland which bought its rival for £55m less than two years ago

Riders who work for Deliveroo are the latest members of the gig economy to take legal action challenging their employment status, and bring claims in relation to the National Minimum Wage (NMW), holiday pay and age discrimination

A new 12-sided £1 coin becomes legal tender from Tuesday 28 March with the first redesign for more than 30 years, in a bid to tackle the rise of counterfeits, and will replace existing round pound coins over a six month transition period

Tesco is to pay £129m under the terms of a deferred prosecution agreement (DPA) to be formally confirmed next month, to settle a probe by the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) into accounting practices at the retailer which resulted in a £263m black hole in its half year interim results in 2014. The supermarket giant will also pay out £85m to affected shareholders via a scheme which will be set up and run by KPMG, reports Pat Sweet

An overhaul of the way insolvency cases are handled from 6 April will create a period of uncertainty for practitioners as physical creditor meetings fall by the wayside and email communications become the default preference, warns Sean Moran, partner and insolvency law specialist at Shakespeare Martineau