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Equal pay risk and apprenticeship strategy in public sector HR: Caroline Nugent on six weeks bringing practitioner experience to Grant Thornton.

The FCA's published its Consumer Duty review of good and poor practices in outcomes monitoring. We explore how general insurance firms can improve practices.

UK food and beverage M&A hit 105 deals in H1 2026. We explore the key trends, subsectors and deals shaping the sector's activity.

Get up to speed with the latest risks and regulations facing the higher education sector for 2026

Local government reorganisation inherits budget gaps, savings risk and debt. How new unitary authorities can plan for the financial challenge ahead.

Most cost programmes look in the wrong place. See the four-phase framework helping UK CEOs find real, lasting margin improvement.

The UK Autumn Budget 2026 will take place on 28 October 2026. Abby Agopian, our Head of Tax Policy, looks at what we know so far.

Supreme Court rules in Drelle v Servis-Terminal: unrecognised foreign judgments can found a UK bankruptcy petition. Key implications for creditors.

LGR puts asset management at risk of afterthought status. See the key risks, from balance sheet splits to LATCos, and how to get ahead of them.

Payment and e-money firms must maintain a resolution pack and a wind-down plan to support faster fund returns after insolvency. Here is what's changed.

Selling part of a business is complex. We co-authored the ICAEW guideline on sell-side carve-outs, showing why early preparation decides the outcome.

PRA's SS1/23 amendment brings stress-testing and ICAAP models under the same governance standard as capital models. Vivian Lagan explains what banks need to do to comply.

Regulators are now overseeing the UK's most critical technology providers, but the suppliers most likely to stop an insurer paying claims sit outside that regime. We look at hidden concentration risks and how to mitigate them.

Your workforce adopted AI faster than your controls did. Kieran Baker explains the challenges with AI adoption, and what good looks like when governing it.

New PSA26 rules let DB trustees release pension surplus to employers – key clarity on funding tests, covenant and next steps.

Building a resilient Medium Term Financial Strategy for new unitary councils through effective funding, expenditure and governance planning.