Yearly Archives: 2022

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BIPA Meeting – 135

At the October BIPA meeting we welcomed HMRC to join in order to discuss the future of VAT data.  There was a good discussion around it’s future uses and how this could help in the current economic climate. We also saw the Chair hand over from Creditsafe to Equifax.

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BIPA Meeting – 130

The May 2022 BIPA meeting was held face to face and in a packed agenda we were very pleased to welcome Rachael Watts and the Register of Overseas Entities team from Companies House and Land Registry to discuss progress on the first change arising from the Economic Crime (Transparency and Enforcement) Act. We were also […]

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BIPA Meeting – 129

The April 2022 BIPA Meeting meeting saw a switch in chair from Dun & Bradstreet to Creditsafe.  We also welcomed Louise Smyth (Chief Executive and Registrar at Companies House) and Martin Swain (Directory of Strategy at Companies House) to discuss the Corporate Transparency and Register Reform and the Economic Crime (Transparency and Enforcement) Bill.  It […]

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BIPA Meeting – 128

The March 2022 BIPA Meeting was focused on discussing the recent updates on the Corporate Transparency and Register Reform. The long awaited response to the consultation has been finally published by BEIS and Companies House alongside a White Paper Policy Overview which BIPA will continue to monitor closely. You can find the response here.

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BIPA Meeting – 127

The February 2022 BIPA Meeting was held virtually on 15th February. We welcomed Robert Thompson from the Civil Court Users Association and had a very interesting discussion on improving the data quality of business County Court Judgments received from the courts to ensure correct identification of the parties involved. BIPA also released its new website […]

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BIPA Meeting – 126

The January 2022 BIPA Meeting was held on 18th January and well attended by BIPA Members. We welcomed Nic Beishon from N37 Consultancy and who is the current Independent Chair of the Commercial Credit Data Sharing scheme. Nic provided an interesting update on the current status of the Bounce Back Loan Scheme and Recovery Loan […]

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    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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