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Birmingham businesses unhappy as interest rates and quantitative easing are held
Banking & Finance
Today’s decision to keep interest rates at 0.5 per cent and to opt against a further extension of the quantitative easing programme will do nothing to help business growth, say business leaders in Birmingham.
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Midland employers bemoan a tax on jobs in the pre-Budget report
Banking & Finance
Employers accused the Chancellor of imposing a tax on jobs as he announced an increase in national insurance - at the same time as a major Midland firm announced 140 redundancies.
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Solihull finance firm S&U reveals £6m fall in net debt
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Home credit and motor finance specialist S&U has reduced its net debt as the recession has pushed people towards home credit.
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Accountants Tenon and RSM Bentley Jennison to merge
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Accountancy firms Tenon and RSM Bentley Jennison have arranged a merger, in a deal that will create a regional heavyweight with about 360 staff in the West Midlands.
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Solihull finance firm S&U reveals £6m fall in net debt
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Home credit and motor finance specialist S&U has reduced its net debt as the recession has pushed people towards home credit.
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Pre-Budget Report to tax the wealthiest, experts predict
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Experts are predicting that tomorrow’s pre-Budget report will be dominated by a return to traditional Labour values.
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No5's Cheryl Jones to be Midland recorder
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A barrister at No5 Chambers in Birmingham has been selected to sit as a recorder on the Midland Circuit, taking the total of part-time judges of the Crown Court at the set to 25.
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Rich investors still putting money into property
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Wealthy investors are still loyal to property as an asset class, according to a new report.
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HBJ sees a green future with electric van deal
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HBJ Gateley Wareing is hailing environmentally-friendly manufacturing as the way forward, after advising on a transatlantic electric vehicle deal hailed by US president Barack Obama.
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TUC urges tougher crackdown on tax avoidance
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Almost £1 billion was raised through tax avoidance measures taken by the Government but there was huge potential to raise more money, the TUC has said in a new report.
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Keelys help Dains’ expansion
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Commercial property lawyers at Lichfield firm Keelys have completed a lease that means a sixth Midlands office for a top regional accountancy firm.
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Challinors works on £50,000 Kian appeal
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Midlands firm Challinors has taken on perhaps its youngest-ever client – six-year-old cerebral palsy sufferer Kian Williams, from Smethwick.
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Deloitte's George Campion to advise Lodders
Professional Services
Regional law firm Lodders has taken on a top Birmingham business adviser as chairman to help drive the business.
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Dentist deal shows Lloyds TSB's teeth
Banking & Finance
Private equity providers are proving there is life in the Midland management buy-out market with one of the biggest deals of the year so far.
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Kavita Patel breaks new ground on financial scene
Professional Services
T here’s a firmly-entrenched stereotype of corporate finance, perhaps unfairly. The pinstripes, the champagne, the braces – and the old boys’ network.
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RBS board set to bow to pressure over bonuses
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Royal Bank of Scotland has indicated it will bow to pressure to slash executive bonuses after a bruising row with the Treasury, according to reports.
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Islamic Bank expected to ride out Dubai troubles
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Backers of the Birmingham-based Islamic Bank of Britain have insisted Islamic finance is still the way forward for investors, even after the sector was rocked by the massive failure in Dubai.
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Mgr becomes a new name in the insolvency market
Banking & Finance
Over the last few months they’ve put a fishing boat, an oil jetty, and even a Formula One car under the hammer.
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Firms draw up pre-budget report wish list
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Action to make it easier for small and medium-sized companies to grow and create jobs is top of a wide-ranging pre-Budget report “wish list” drawn up by business leaders in the West Midlands.
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Chelsea Building Society agrees merger with Yorkshire
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The Yorkshire and Chelsea building societies have unveiled a deal to join forces in a merger set to create a “second major force” in the sector.
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Yorkshire and Chelsea building societies in merger talks
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The Yorkshire and Chelsea Building Societies, two of the country’s biggest mutuals, have confirmed they are in talks over a possible merger.
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Record levels of debt paid off in the face of recession
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New figures show consumers repaid a record level of unsecured debt during October as they continued to focus on improving their finances in the face of the recession.
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Lloyds shareholders agree to multi-billion cash call
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Shareholders overwhelmingly voted in favour of Lloyds Banking Group’s Ƶ record £13.5 billion cash call.
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West Bromwich Building Society recovering with a cut in losses
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The battered West Bromwich Building Society is staging a financial recovery after cutting its losses at the half-year stage.
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