Many clients of our company formation agents here at London Registrars are likely to take an interest in the launch by the Government last month of the Small Business Commissioner (SBC) complaints handling scheme and website.
How is the chair of the board’s role set to change in the coming years?
It is a curious aspect of chairing a board that the person who performs this role â even in a large and well-known company â generally only emerges from behind the scenes when things go wrong. Countless examples exist of chairpersons hitting the headlines in such instances as an environmental disaster, or a chief executiveâs failure to deliver a strategy.
Business secretary sets out ‘world-leading’ corporate governance reforms
Company owners who keep a close eye on developments at the Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy may have noticed its announcement in late August of the Governmentâs response to the Green Paper consultation on corporate governance reform.
Ever-more prevalent ransomware heightens the importance of business vigilance
One recent story that existing business owners or those looking to incorporate a limited company with the assistance of London Registrars may have noted concerns on what has been declared to be the âworst everâ ransomware attack. Experts believe that as-yet-unknown parties lifted a trove of tools from the National Security Agency (NSA) that were then used for a global malware campaign.
UK companies at growing risk of the unwitting use of slave labour
So far, more than 100,000 migrants have reached Europe by sea in 2017, according to International Organisation of Migration estimates. Exploitation of these migrants has put European supply chains, including those in the UK, at greater risk of inadvertently drawing upon slave labour.
Most EU countries ‘failing to implement anti-money laundering reforms’
The majority of European Union member states have missed the deadline for implementing new laws aimed at combating money laundering and the funding of terrorism, according to an EU commissioner.
Important changes made to the PSC regime
Whether or not your company presently maintains a PSC register, it may have reason to take an interest in the latest changes to the PSC regime.
The UK Government altered the Companies Act 2006 in April last year, to include a requirement for most companies and LLPs to produce, keep and maintain a register of any people or relevant legal entities with significant control over that company or LLP.
Quality Policy
London Registrars was established in 1999 to provide company secretarial and paralegal services to incorporated companies of all types and sizes. Â We are based in Central London and employ ten people.
Quality is important to our business because we value our clients and strive to provide them with services which meet and even exceed their expectations in line with the ISO 9001 standard. Â We are committed to continuous improvement and have established a Quality Management System which provides a framework for measuring and improving our performance and the services we offer to clients.
Should your firm be concerned about the phenomenon of ‘Big Data?’
âBig Dataâ is an issue that has increasingly come to the attention of British businesses and regulators, with the UK data protection regulator describing it as âa way of analysing data that typically uses massive datasets, brings together data from different sources and can analyse the data in real time.â
Bribery and corruption remain widespread across Europe, Middle East and beyond
 With Europe, the Middle East, India and Africa (EMEIA) all continuing to grapple with huge bribery and corruption problems, many of those considering London Registrarsâ board secretary services may be interested to read of a new survey shedding further light on the current scale of corruption.