CCR Magazine

Risk management software solution provider, Neural Technologies, has been selected as a finalist for the IT Supplier of the Year Award by the BCS & Computing UK IT Industry Awards 2010 in the Organisational Excellence category.  The shortlisting is a recognition of the company’s work on a major fraud and credit risk management project carried out for leading Turkish mobile operator, Turkcell. 

The Forum of Private Business (FPB) is welcoming a National Insurance (NI) holiday for some start-ups but calling for further tax breaks if small businesses are to be the catalyst for sustained economic recovery.

Optima Legal has pledged its support to national debt advice charity, Money Advice Trust (MAT). 

Callcredit Information Group welcomes Adrian Mitri and Tom Ilube in the new roles of Chief Operating Officer and Managing Director of Consumer Markets, respectively.

Today a new regional National Insurance Contributions (NICs) holiday for new businesses came into effect. New business set up outside London, the South East and East of England will be eligible for a holiday worth up to £5,000 for up to the first ten employees they hire in their first year of business. This means a maximum saving on their national insurance payments of up to £50,000.

Direct Debit Limited, the Bacs-approved payments-management software provider, will showcase its market-leading PayCentre platform at the Credit Services Association (CSA) and Debt Buyers and Sellers Group (DBSG) Annual Conference, 8th and 9th September 2010. PayCentre helps organisations including debt buyers and sellers, debt-recovery agencies and credit-services firms make and collect payments more efficiently.

Begbies Traynor Group, the specialist professional services consultancy, today announces the launch of BTG Global Risk Partners, bringing together the Group’s forensic accounting, computer forensic, investigation and security risk practices into a new integrated business, with immediate effect.

The Institute of Credit Management (ICM) has recently launched Cr£ditWho?, a fully searchable directory of product and service providers, aimed at giving credit professionals and businesses needing advice an easy route to the right solution.

Profitability fell unexpectedly in both the Consumer and Business & Professional Services sector in the last three months as business levels remained well below normal, according to the latest Confederation of British Industry (CBI) Service Sector Survey.