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View all Representation →Consultations- Digitisation Taskforce – Final Report
- FCA Consults on Fund Product Information and Cost Disclosure CP24/30 – ShareSoc Responds
- FRC Consults on UK Stewardship Code – ShareSoc Responds
- FCA Consultation – Modernising Redress
- HMRC Consultation – IHT on Pensions
- ShareSoc Evidence to Lords on FCA Enforcement
- ShareSoc supports FCA proposal for criminal background checks on owners and controllers of financial institutions
- UK ISA: ShareSoc submits consultation response
- FCA Consultation on Enforcement Practice & Transparency
- ShareSoc response to House of Commons Education Select Committee
- UKSA and ShareSoc Submission to Labour Party Review of Financial Services
- FCA Consultation GC23/2 Financial Promotions on Social Media
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Events
View all Events →Upcoming Events- Oct19SIGnet York Group Launch Meeting
- Oct21ShareSoc Webinar with The European Smaller Companies Trust (ESCT)
- Oct27Asset Match webinar on PISCES: what it means for liquidity in private company shares
- Oct27SIGnet North Leeds / Harrogate / Skipton Group Launch Meeting
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Company
CARILLION PLC (CLLN)
Blog posts
Burford Capital, Goals Soccer Centres, Carillion, and Why Numbers Are Not Important
Post Date: August 7, 2019
To follow on from my previous comments this morning on Burford Capital (BUR), this is a typical “shorting” attack where the shorter (Muddy Waters) and their supporters make a lot of allegations which investors are unable to verify in any useful time frame. I certainly questioned the accounting approach used by Burford and other litigation finance firms as I commented on it back in June, but disentangling the factual accusations in the Muddy Waters dossier from innuendo and comment is not ...
Carillion and FRC investigation
Post Date: February 5, 2018
I know that some members are taking a very active interest in what went wrong at Carillion. The email below from the FRC contains a link to a document which you may find both useful and interesting to support your own research and in helping to reach some initial conclusions.
" From: FRC
Sent: 29 January 2018 09:54
To: Various
Subject: News Alert - Accounting and reporting framework for the construction and business support services sectors
In the light of the collapse of Carillion, the Financial Reporting Council ...
ShareSoc News
FCA Update
Post Date: November 8, 2022
FCA Enforcement Actions
Cliff Weight and Peter Parry met with Executives from the FCA Primary Markets and Secondary Markets teams on 28 October. We discussed a number of regulatory issues and shared various concerns. The nature of these meetings is that much is confidential and the FCA cannot comment on specific cases if that might be prejudicial to those being investigated, nor can they comment on cases that are not known to be in the public eye.
I am pleased to report the ...
BEIS Committee investigates Carillion. ShareSoc and the UK Shareholders Association submit joint response.
Post Date: February 5, 2018
The item below is ShareSoc and UKSA's joint response to a request for comment from the BEIS parliamentary select committee on Corporate Governance regarding events at Carillion.
Click here to read the PDF version.
5 February 2018
Chris Shaw,
Clerk,
BEIS Committee on Corporate Governance
Dear Chris,
Carillion and implications
Please note this is a joint response on behalf of UKSA and ShareSoc
We understand that the Select Committee, along with the Work and Pensions Committee, is looking at the collapse of Carillion at the moment. So, we are ...
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