Latest UK press articles on the effects of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) on UK businesses & self-employed.
(Useful link to the NHS website here)
5 April 2020 – MoS – Jacob Rees-Mogg’s firm is accused of profiteering from coronavirus
5 April 2020 – Sunday Times – The Treasury must mend its flawed
5 April 2020 – MoS – Economists warn the UK economy could shrink by an eye
5 April 2020 – Sunday Times – We’re staring at a Great Depression
4 April 2020 – Times – Virus brings UK economy to its knees
4 April 2020 – Times – Companies close doors to investors at annual meetings
4 April 2020 – Times – Business lending U turn at Nationwide
3 April 2020 – UK HMT – Press release – Business Interruption Loan scheme
3 April 2020 – SME.Alliance – Press Release
3 April 2020 – Times – We’ve been betrayed, say the small firms fighting for survival
2 April 2020 – Times – Bankers show we’re not in it together
2 April 2020 – Times – Companies expect to run out of cash within weeks
2 April 2020 – Times – Prolonged lockdown will ‘trigger a rebellion’
2 April 2020 – Times – Confidence among manufacturers slumps to lowest level on record
2 April 2020 – Times – Why Bank had to crack whip to get dividend ban
2 April 2020 – Times – Banks are in an invidious position but have vital role in any recovery
2 April 2020 – Times – Bailout scheme to be overhauled for small businesses
1 April 2020 – Times – Dividends are thorny issue for banks
1 April 2020 – Times – Confidence slumps to lowest level on record
1 April 2020 – Times – MORNING BRIEFING
1 April 2020 – Times – Banks must resist urge to swill champagne when the crisis is over
1 April 2020 – Times – Banks scrap dividends and bonuses under pressure from regulator
31 March 2020 – Times – Sting will be in the tail of remarkable but vital action to rally economy
31 March 2020 – Times – Banks face losses in the billions as loans go bad
31 March 2020 – Times – One in five small firms may be forced to shut for good
31 March 2020 – Times – Confidence swings into a downward spiral
31 March 2020 – Times – ANALYSIS – Dividend payouts leave banks with painful dilemma
31 March 2020 – Times – BUSINESS COMMENTARY – Barclays Blunder
31 March 2020 – Times – Concessions on ‘wrongful trading’ risk causing serious consequences
30 March 2020 – Times – Stop bank dividend payouts, Andrew Bailey told
30 March 2020 – Times – Business must agree a new social contract with voters to restore trust
30 March 2020 – Times -Tough economic decisions will litter the road ahead once Covid over
30 March 2020 – Times – Britain faces 6 months of coronavirus curbs
29 March 2020 – Sunday Times – We saved the banks in 2008 – now they are failing us
29 March 2020 – Times – Coronavirus – FCA summons council of war
29 March 2020 – Sunday Times – Capitalism won’t be killed by the coronavirus
27 March 2020 – Times – CORONAVIRUS – Banks give way on rescue loans after outcry over terms.
27 March 2020 – Times – CORONAVIRUS – We’ll do whatever it takes, central banks vow
27 March 2020 – Times – Bank urged to put block on £7.5bn dividends
27 March 2020 – Times – CORONAVIRUS – Small firms most fearful as economic confidence sinks
27 March 2020 – Times – Coronavirus prompts No 10 to suspend housing market
27 March 2020 – Times – Trail of destruction left by virus is worse than 2008
27 March 2020 – Times – Hi ho silver lining. Every crisis has its heroes and its villain.
26 March 2020 – Times – Emergency loans prompt fury among directors
26 March 2020 – Times – Remember the heroes and villains of this crisis
26 March 2020 – Times – Banks urged to scrap billion pound payout
25 March 2020 – Times – Companies could wait weeks for rescue loans
25 March 2020 – Times – Bank activates liquidity plan to ensure lenders have funds
25 March 2020 – Times – Cash may no longer be king, but it’s vital that we have access to it
24 March 2020 – Mortgage Prisoners – Payment holiday letter
24 March 2020 – Times – CORONAVIRUS Lenders take hit on fees to support new loan scheme
24 March 2020 – Times – Conronavirus Business customers struggle to contact banks for crisis loans.
21 & 22 March 2020 – UK Finance advertising PR – Working together to support the Nation
22 March 2020 – Sunday Times – Coronavirus the dash for the door
22 March 2020 – Sunday Times – Rishi Sunak’s pledges sow hope – and confusion
22.March 2020 – Times – We can’t let bosses hold us to ransom again
20 March 2020 – Times – Coronavirus loan scheme will fail small businesses
20 March 2020 – Times – CORONAVIRUS Scrap Bonuses Buybacks etc
20 March 2020 – COVID.19 – Reuters – Bank of England Governor, UK lawmakers warn industry against
19 March 2020 – Times – Andrew Bailey pledges unlimited loans to stop companies going under
19 March 2020 – FT – MPs urge govt to extend FCA powers
19 March 2020 – Times Lloyds – HBOS Fraud
18 March 2020 – Times – Banks have a chance to right the wrongs of the last financial crisis
18 March 2020 – Times- Cash lifeline is promised for homeowners and businesses
12 March 2020 – Reuters – FCA’s Bailey says mortgage prisoners face “real harm”, calls on all lenders to treat
customers fairly
12 March 2020 – Reuters -COVID-19 bank support package
11 March 2020 – BOE interest-rate-cut- transcript Press Conference Highlights
9 March 2020 – City AM – Serious Fraud Office looking at Lloyds Bank and KPMG claims
8 March 2020 – Sunday Times – New Bank boss must act to put out a fire that nobody foresaw
Earlier articles prior to the Coroanvirus (Covid-19), in the UK.
8 March 2020 – Sunday Times – How to handle challenger banks
8 March 2020 – Sunday Times – Virgin Money ditches foreign currency fees for debit cards
6 March 2020 – Reuters – BBRS Cranston
6 March 2020 – FT Advisor – TSC – FCA
4 March 2020 – Times – RBS switch scheme to be reformed
2 March 2020 – Times – Treasury to pocket £5bn from Northern Rock
29 February 2020 – FT – Criticism mounts for Farcical RBS-funded scheme
21 February 2020 – Times – Lloyds boss unseated by runaway PPI
20 February 2020 – MOS – Lloyds Banks on new frontiers
20 February 2020 – Times – Lloyds Bank moves on from PPI scandal as profits slide
20 February 2020 – MOS – Lloyds Banks on new frontiers
20 February 2020 – Times – History proves a guide to solving disputes
16 February 2020 – Times – New chancellor Rishi Sunak cashed in on fund that helped break banks
15 February.2020 – Times – State ready to offload RBS stake
15 February 2020 – Times – Scottish hit back at RBS name change
15 February 2020 – Times – Rose and the thorny issue of RBS
11 February 2020 – Reuters – Mortgage Prisoners FCA see case for law change
10 February 2020 – Times – Top bankers risk shareholder revolt over £10m pay awards
9 February 2020 – Mail on Sunday – Virgin Money joining race for hard-pressed customers
9 February 2020 – Sunday Times – Beware of the watchdog
5 February 2020 – Times – Life in the hot seat will be no bed of roses for the new boss of RBS
4 February 2020 – Hansard – Lloyds, HBOS and the Cranston report
4 February 2020 – Yorkshire Business – Directors to step down from Virgin Money UK board
2 February 2020 – Sunday Times – Royal Bank of London Alison Rose
1 February 2020 – Times – Lloyds board members want to start search for new chief
31 January 2020 – Virgin Money UK CFO to step down
31 January 2020 – BBC – Troubles victims pensions BBC
30 January 2020 – Times – Sack John Glen now
30 January 2020 – FT – Virgin Money PLC Virgin Money suffers shareholder revolt over pay
29 January 2020 – Reuters – bank conduct crossroads
29 January 2020 – SOFT LAUNCH; Banking Victims For A Future 2020 + – Open Letter to PM
29 January 2020 – Times – Virgin Money boss may deserve his multimillion pay one day – but not yet
25 January 2020 – Times – Police can’t cope with avalanche of fraud cases
26 January 2020 – Mail on Sunday – Lloyds bill over HBOS fraud debacle could climb to £500m
24 January 2020 – Times – Britain badly prepared for market crash says Andrew Bailey
24 January 2020 – Financial Times – Virgin Money UK Bank – Pettigrew retirement
22 January 2020 – Times – Lloyds faces court over evasion of rules
21 January 2020 – Times – Johnson set to clash with banks over lending gap
21 January 2020 – Times – Lloyds Bank halts small business lawsuit after Andrew Bailey steps in
20 January 2020 – Sunday Times – 5m deal for Virgin Money boss David Duffy tees up investor revolt
11 January 2020 – Times – Banks forging signatures on industrial scale
8 January 2020 – Times – Ministers need to put some pride back into the City watchdog