May 2025 Newsletter: SMEs wait on banks to welcome them back

by Katerina | May 21, 2025 | News

Against of background of gently falling interest rates and a need to improve national productivity, key stakeholder groups are urging UK Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) to get over their aversion to bank debt and explore new funding options. The government is...

Embracing change – a personal perspective on the benefits of seeking out change

by Katerina | May 14, 2025 | News

Alice Fanner, Assistant Manager at Buchler Phillips, participated in the Class of 2025 at the recent R3 Association of Business Recovery Professionals annual Conference in Malta, with a fabulous speech in relation to her career path from a degree in Philosophy, to a...

Crypto miner digs itself into a hole

by Katerina | May 6, 2025 | News

Global economic uncertainty and recent volatility in financial markets have boosted interest in trading cryptocurrency. However, the latest closure of a UK based crypto business, amid claims of fraud, is a fresh reminder of the risks of dabbling in this still...

Letter from London: The impact of a stunning set of local elections

by Katerina | May 6, 2025 | News

Print off this briefing and brandish it before my eyes sometime in 2029, when the prediction I am about to make may be proved hopelessly awry. I reckon UK politics is on the cusp of monumental realignment; at the next election for the first time since the Great Reform...

Hiring squeeze squashes agencies

by Katerina | Apr 29, 2025 | News

Recruiters are in trouble. Having expanded rapidly to around 30,000 agencies in recent years, and survived Covid, a dramatic fall in job vacancies is forcing record numbers of company failures in the sector. A new analysis by CityAM of agency insolvencies in the last...