Tower Street Finance partners with Bridging.com
Bridging.com has appointed Tower Street Finance as its first strategic lending partner to provide short-term products that enable quick and easy access to inheritance for its individual and company users. Bridging.com is a digitally enhanced, independent information resource that helps individuals and companies source and compare the most suitable short-term funding solution for a variety […]
Video witnessing of wills to play a more vital role in new lockdown?
Now that the UK is in another national lockdown, will the legislation around video witnessing of wills mean they become more than just a last resort to practitioners? When the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) announced in July that they would make the video witnessing of wills legal as a result of the pandemic, there was […]
Money laundering fines reach record high
HMRC has issued a record £23.8m worth of fines for organisations breaching and or ignoring money laundering regulations. Nick Sharp, Deputy Director of Economic Crime, Fraud Investigation Service at HMRC said: “Businesses who fail to comply with the money laundering regulations leave themselves, and the UK economy, open to attacks by criminals. “Money laundering is not […]
Solicitors back changes to Law Society governance
Solicitors in England and Wales have voted overwhelmingly to introduce term limits and constituency reforms for the governing council of their membership body, the Law Society of England and Wales. At last year’s annual general meeting, held in October, it was decided to conduct all-member ballots covering two issues: maximum term limits of 12 years […]