Yearly Archives: 2021

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BIPA Meeting – 125

The December 2021 BIPA meeting was held virtually this week and we welcomed guest speaker Lex Jones Registry Trust CEO. Lex provided interesting updates on the Registry Trust strategy and the changes and backlogs experienced by the courts during the year. BIPA is looking forward to 2022, notably the launch of our new website and […]

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BIPA Meeting – 124

The November 2021 BIPA meeting was held virtually this week. Agenda topics under discussion included: The consultation on the introduction of a corporate re-domiciliation regime to support companies seeking to relocate to the UK. https://lnkd.in/dm3miFKh The Importance of Trade Credit to Economic Growth and what measures BIPA members recommend to ensure Trade Credit continues to […]

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BIPA Meeting – 123

At our October 2021 BIPA meeting we were pleased to welcome Katharine Bagshaw, FCA Manager, Auditing Standards, Audit & Assurance to discuss Proposed International Standard on Auditing for Less Complex Entities. UK was the focus of the latest FEBIS Training Session with Mark Preston BIPA’s D&B leading an informative and entertaining session on the availability […]

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BIPA Meeting – 122

At our latest BIPA meeting we were pleased to welcome Louise Smyth, Chief Exec of Companies House and Registrar of Companies along with her colleagues. Louise provided us with a very interesting overview of how Companies House adapted to keep fully functioning throughout the COVID crisis and also an update on other activities and policies […]

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BIPA Meeting – 121

At our latest BIPA meeting we were pleased to welcome guests from the Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) and from Companies House. They provided us with an informative update on the recent Corporate , Transparency and Register Reform consultation and its 3 main areas – Improving Financial Information on the UK companies […]

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BIPA Meeting – 120

At our latest BIPA meeting we were pleased to welcome 2 guest speakers, Nic Beishon, Chair of the Commercial Credit Data Sharing (CCDS) Data Quality group and Liz Barclay, the recently appointed Small Business Commissioner. Nic provided us with an update of the recent activities of the CCDS group and the effect on businesses after […]

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Covid-19 Update

Commercial CRAs play a key role in the economy by providing accurate, timely and complete data on businesses to lenders, including trade creditors, in order to support sensible, responsible decisions on extending affordable finance to those businesses requesting it.

    COVID-19

    The Covid-19 crisis is first and foremost a humanitarian crisis and all our members are putting people first in their response. As an industry body, BIPA believes that our role during this crisis is to ensure that the economy continues to benefit from informed credit decisions and we are reaching out to government and other stakeholders to offer our help in whatever way we can. We will provide updates as appropriate.

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    chair@bipa.uk.com