Welcome to the Business Credit News UK - Weekly Snapshot Newsletter

Editor John Arnold - E-mail: jarnold@creditman.co.uk
Site: Business Credit Management UK
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Dated: 26 May 2009

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Current News
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- OFT warns debt management businesses over cold calling
- Client satisfaction is business holy grail for riding out the recession
- Kaupthing Singer & Friedlander (Isle of Man) Ltd in liquidation provisionally
- Improvements in bank lending for some small firms boosting business confidence
- New Birmingham appointment for Vantis Business Recovery Services
- Atradius Breakfast Seminar - Credit and cash flow management how to keep ahead of the game
- Bibby Financial Services Posts Record Profits
- Shergroup returns to the classroom in India
- KPMG expands UK restructuring team further with three new appointments
- Tenon Corporate Finance named Accountancy Firm of the Year
- USA - Dunn to Answer Reader Credit & Debt Questions in "FIRST for Women" National Magazine"
- Vantis issues further correspondence to investors of Stanford Trust Company Ltd
- Administrators announce sale of Bay Trading
- Instant property millionaire companies finally shut down
- Unfair credit agreements no test cases, some to be fast-tracked
- Stockport County Association Football Club Limited in administration - update
- Businesses should persist in chasing funding
- Manufacturing investment suffers in Q1, says FLA
- Northern Lap Dancing Clubs Call in the Administrators
- Close Brothers - Announces Sale Of Corporate Finance
- Survey Reveals Workaholics now working 2-6 hours a week in bed
- CIFAS - Fraud threats change but the damage remains
- Kingsbarn Equestrian Centre to close
- Olly's UK Limited T/a Oilily - in adminstration
- WAW Leisure Limited (in administration)
- Entrepreneurship dampened by perceived increase in business insolvencies
- Administrators appointed to Portland Spa Limited and Southwell Estates Limited
- Tyneside Leisure Company Goes into Administration
- Nordea Selects SunGards Adaptiv Analytics
- Insurance experts essential to continued support for global trade

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New Articles
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- Credit Insurance - Now It's More Important Than Ever - by Simon Groves of Atradius

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Up Coming Events
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Credit Management and Debt Recovery Conference - May 27 2009 to May 28 2009
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Contracting out Debt - Jun 4 2009 to Jun 4 2009
Applied Business Communication & Personal Skills - Jun 4 2009 to Jun 4 2009
Coface Country Risk Conference - Thursday 11th June 2009, BAFTA, London.

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