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The Small Company Administrative Rescue Process (SCARP) supports directors of SMEs in restructuring their respective companies in an efficient and cost-effective manner, thereby enabling them to continue to trade.

Small Company Administrative Rescue Process (SCARP) is a new restructuring process available to small- and medium-size enterprises (SMEs), and it is likely to negatively impact creditors in relation to funds outstanding as at the date the process commences.

This ECB paper is relevant to banks with derivatives and trading books; it explores the operational aspects and hidden costs associated with the wind-down of a bank’s trading book. An orderly wind-down of a trading book may be a recovery option or an element of a bank’s preferred resolution strategy. This paper details principles of ECB’s supervisory expectations with respect to both recovery and resolution planning.

The Government introduced the Small Company Administrative Rescue Process (SCARP) to provide a restructuring option to SMEs similar to the examinership process; however, SCARP is quicker, more cost-effective and does not require the close oversight of the Court. It is an accessible restructuring option for SMEs, proving successful thus far with more than 70% of cases in 2022 having been approved by creditors.

Transforming organisations by optimising processes, implementing innovative strategies and fostering continuous improvement culture, leading to increased competitiveness and sustainable growth.

Our focus in this paper is to develop decision making models using a range of advanced machine learning techniques. We explore three different methodologies to measure the discriminatory power between good and bad borrowers using a credit card portfolio dataset. The main hypothesis is that advanced modelling techniques lead to more efficient estimates and higher discriminatory power.

As a result of Brexit, and particularly following the introduction of the UK’s Financial Services and Markets Act, there is a potential for increasing divergence between EU and UK financial services regulation.

On 30 January, the Central Bank published Guidance for (Re)insurance Undertakings on Intragroup Transactions and Exposures following a consultation that ended in September 2022.

Green House Gas (GHG) emissions are classified into categories of Scope 1, Scope 2 or Scope 3. This is a way of grouping emissions between those created by the company and those created by its wider value chain.

In response to the fast growth of the payment services market, the European Commission issued a Revised Payments Legislative Package. This seeks to ensure the EU’s financial sector is fit for purpose and capable of adapting to the ongoing digital transformation, and the risks and opportunities it presents – in particular for consumers.

The concept of a new suite of standards for the UK and Ireland, aligning with international financial reporting standards, was first conceived in 2002

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