The BBC has reported that the UK economy has come out of recession, after figures showed it had grown by a weaker-than-expected 0.1% in the last three months of 2009. The economy had previously contracted for six consecutive quarters – the longest period since quarterly figures were first [...More]

UK advertising budgets are set to rise this year as the economy recovers, a survey of advertisers suggests. Budgets will rise following more than two years of falls according to the survey from the Institute of Practitioners in Advertising (IPA).  Advertisers cut their budgets again in the [...More]

This year has already seen a political party coup attemp and instability in both Westminster and Stormont, despite being only 12 days old.  Today we consider how this uncertainty could potentially affect the UK economy in 2010. In January 2009 the UK entered recession for the first time since [...More]

Last week, PriceWaterhouseCoopers (PWC) confirmed that CBC’s Financial Services Division, ‘Financial Services Recoveries‘, was working on their behalf to recover money from former members of collapsed IFA network Berkeley Independent Advisers. Berkeley Independent Advisers was a [...More]