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Birmingham accountants sweep awards
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BDO Stoy Hayward beat off rivals to monopolise Accountancy Age Awards
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Birmingham tax team wants Chancellor to aid Midland enterprise
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CHANCELLOR Alistair Darling has been urged to help out entrepreneurs in the West Midlands in the Pre-Budget Report next week by financial giant KPMG.
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Catherine tells of career challenge for female solicitors
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“For anybody wanting to progress a career in any profession, it shouldn’t be a matter of shattering the glass ceiling,” says Catherine Wahlberg, managing partner at Warwickshire solicitors, Alsters Kelley.
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Birmingham lawyers to open doors to foreign solicitors
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BIRMINGHAM Law Society has become the first group in the Ƶ to accept foreign solicitors.
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London could be hit hard by loss of 52,000 jobs at Citigroup
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The deepening banking crisis worsened with an announcement by Citigroup it will shed 52,000 jobs, with losses heavy in London and New York.
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Caution pays off for clients of Co-op Bank
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The corporate banking division of the Co-operative Bank has seen a record half-year as customers turned away from high street rivals.
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Islamic bank of Britain told to cease dealings with charity linked to Hamas
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The Birmingham-based Islamic Bank of Britain has been ordered to suspend the accounts of a charity linked to terrorist group Hamas.
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Claims for whiplash put up premiums, say car insurers
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Claims for whiplash put
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In the midst of looming recession people are even less inclined to save
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Why more of us being put off saving for a rainy day
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Lack of parallels temper Mervyn King's projection
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A brutal, but brisk, recession is the prospect projected by the Bank of England in its latest quarterly “inflation Report” yesterday, coupled with a warning that the lack of historical parallels makes such predictions highly uncertain.
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Why we need responsible business now more than ever.
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David Darlaston, Regional Director, Business in the Community reflects on the findings of the recent Thrive survey on corporate social responsibility.
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Challenge: select charity that the staff really want
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With all signs pointing to an official recession, it’s all too easy for businesses to scrap budgets for things that may seem unnecessary.
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Barack Obama-led US could take protectionist line
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Businesses that export to the US should prepare for a tough time under Barack Obama, the Confederation of British Industry has said.
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Payback for hundreds as adviser fined £1.12m
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More gloom as HSBC takes £2.73bn hit
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BRITAIN'S biggest bank HSBC has added to the gloom in the battered banking sector with news of more credit crunch pain and spiralling bad debts.
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Interbank lending rates ‘thawing’
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THERE were more signs of gradual thawing in money markets yesterday in the wake of the Ƶ’s biggest interest rate cut since 1981.
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PeopleServe’s owner bullish about future employment
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RISING unemployment and the global financial slowdown may be giving many recruitment agencies sleepless nights, but the president of one Birmingham firm is optimistic about the future.
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Drivers Jonas making light of the gloom with bigger turnover
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Property consultants Drivers Jonas has defied the gloom by posting an increase in turnover of more than 25 per cent at its Birmingham office.
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Ease your staff's stress levels and save money
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Company bosses have been urged to tackle the cost of absenteeism and improve profitability as the economic climate gets tougher.
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Working women leave exposed to financial risk
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The number of women in the workplace may be growing, but attitudes to financial protection are stuck in the 1970s, it was claimed this week.
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Gavin Southall and the law of the land
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This year Wolverhampton saw the emergence of one of biggest law firms in the West Midlands.
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Wragge & Co profits drop for half year
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Wragge & Co, Birmingham’s largest legal firm, announced it was expecting a drop in profits this half-year, but was optimistic of improvement despite the recession.
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Ƶ holidaymakers to America hit by sterling's crash against dollar
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Discipline will save the day
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In a quiet moment of reflection in amongst all the recent carnage in financial markets, I considered what event, or series of events may have contributed to the extraordinary happenings in global finances.
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