Welcome to the Business Credit News UK - Weekly Snapshot Newsletter

Editor John Arnold - E-mail: jarnold@creditman.co.uk
Site: Business Credit Management UK
URL: http://www.creditman.co.uk
Dated: 23 March 2009

At icm09 the ICM officially launched QiCM - Quality in Credit Management - an award recognising good practice in credit management.

For more details on QiCM and how your business can apply for this prestigious award, email tech@icm.org.uk




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Current News
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- Weavering Macro Fixed Income Fund Limited – in liquidation
- As APACS Reports 132% Increase In Online Fraud For 2008 - Equifax Warns Of The Impact To Consumers Credit Ratings
- Law firm DWF wins Anglian Water debt recovery services work
- Sale of Smallbone plc from administration saves over 400 UK jobs
- Trinity Walk Development Enters Administration
- Update from administrators on Great Leighs racecourse
- Casper Group enters Administration
- Changes to OFT consumer credit licence fees
- Coface Maintains Solid Growth and Limits the Impact on its 2008 Results
- The M&A Awards 2009
- Government departments struggling to deliver on PM's payment pledge to small businesses
- USA - Debt Collection Industry Paradox: Staffing Cuts Amid High Demand for Services
- Tenon announces interim results
- Local Contract Hire and Leasing Ltd (T/A 1car1) – in administration
- Administration of OSC and Qube: Update
- Administrators called in to Apollo 2000 and Arrow Distributors
- Future of Diamonds & Pearls Limited secured
- Begbies Traynor Opens Fourth Office in Scotland
- Liquidators Appointed to Dundee Manufacturing Company
- Historic Tiverton Business Goes into Administration
- IVA Advice Service Launched by The Insolvency Helpline
- Confusing Court Possession Data Underlines the Need for Risk Management
- Phone Data makes 4.2 Million Brits Vulnerable to ID Theft
- The ICM launches 70 tips for Credit Management
- Shergroup hosts credit debate
- Credit crunch wipes out an average of £40,000 of wealth per adult in the UK
- Credit Management recruitment with a difference
- Credit & Collections Benchmarks and Analysis 2008
- Cost and benefit of new consumer regulation needs to be carefully weighed
- The FLA responds to proposed ban on credit card cheques and limit increases
- Dennis M. Nally Selected as Global Chairman of PricewaterhouseCoopers
- Search begins for trailblazing women
- 2009 will be survival of the fittest in the construction sector
- One in 56 businesses will fail this year, says BDO Stoy Hayward report
- Dow Jones Adds Standard & Poor's Credit Ratings Changes to its Elementized News Feed
- The Freds.com Group enable payments by Mobile Phone Recycling – www.freds.com/recycle
- Recession spawns new breed of business owner

To read the complete story on these and to submit your news items please go to the News Section

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Up Coming Events
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Credit Management and Debt Recovery - (An entrepreneur approach) - Mar 23 2009 to Mar 24 2009
Surviving the Credit Crunch and AGM - Mar 24 2009 to Mar 24 2009
Credit Policy Workshop - Mar 24 2009 to Mar 24 2009
Essential Telephone Collection Techniques - Mar 24 2009 to Mar 24 2009
Essential Management Skills - Mar 24 2009 to Mar 24 2009

For the full details on these and other events and to add your events to our database please go to our Up Coming Events Section

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