Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Adding to the list after doctors who smoke, psychologists with serious family problems, and engineers who can’t ...

The Government has announced the establishment of a new State body, the insolvency service. It is envisaged that the agency will employ between 50 and 70 people. Recruitment has already begun for some ...

QUICKER, FASTER, stronger, streamlined; it sounds like the motto for the Olympic Games but in reality it is the spiel behind scrapping insolvency laws and starting again. It is of little surprise that ...

The UK’s Insolvency Service has begun using new powers, given to it last December, to crack down on company directors that dissolve their firms to avoid making repayments on government backed loans.

The service said it wants to understand the experience of some consumers when taking out an IVA. IVAs are a formal type of personal insolvency, whereby money is shared out between creditors. Charities ...