After causing the collapse of the U.K.'s oldest investment bank, Nick Leeson is finally back on the financial market.

Leading Commercial Debt Collection Organisation Federal Management has announced a 18% increase in Collection figures for the first quarter of 2013, compared with the first quarter for 2012.

A CONTROVERSIAL enforcement company which hands out fines for littering and dog fouling has gone into administration.

BAILIFFS are being sent in to recover more than £2 million in unpaid council tax.

The major UK banks saw a 45% rise in core profits in 2012, but that hike was wiped out by a mix of regulation and their own mistakes, a KPMG report says.

REDBRIDGE Council has been criticised by the Local Government Ombudsman for its use of bailiffs to pursue a debtor.

Qasim Ali Munir, director of Farman Homes Ltd, a construction company based in Edgware, Middlesex, has been disqualified from acting as a company director for 13 years for using false documents for personal gain.

U.K. retail sales rose more than economists forecast in February in a rebound from a drop the previous month when heavy snowfall held back consumer activity.

HM Revenue & Customs last year doubled the amount spent on debt collection agencies in respect of the collection of unpaid tax.

A Debtor from Hampshire was in court over threats made to a Bailiff outside his property.

An independent review of pre-packaged insolvency sales will begin in late Spring, the Government has said.

A bankrupt has been handed a 12-month prison sentence after he was found guilty of removing money from accounts

The rate of business insolvencies fell in January 2013 to its lowest rate since June 2007, according to the latest figures.

Isabelle Gold, a bankrupt, has been sentenced to two months imprisonment, suspended for 12 months, and 200 hours of unpaid paid work at Southend-on-Sea Magistrates' Court

CONCERN surrounds a clothes retail chain as debt collectors are understood to have been called in to the chain over unpaid rents.

The financial ombudsman service is taking on 2,000 new cases a day following payment protection insurance (PPI) complaints, with numbers rising at "unprecedented" rates.

Despite the recent high-profile casualties in the IT channel, the overall UK insolvency rate has fallen to its lowest level for more than five years.

Businessman and Debt Collection Agency Owner Stephen French was remanded in custody over weapons charges.

Three debt collection businesses in Wakefield have been shut down following investigations by the Insolvency Service.

Greece’s tax collection and monitoring mechanisms are in complete disarray while the political administration is unable move ahead with their restructuring