CA daily briefing: Tuesday 2 February
Your essential briefing of the morning's top news stories.
Good morning, Andrew Harbison here to give you today's latest news and updates.
The latest from ICAS
ICAS has written to the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) requesting that the automatic extension currently being granted by Companies House for the filing of accounts be continued beyond the 5 April 2021 deadline.
Today's top stories from around the web
- Buy now, pay later firms such as Klarna face stricter controls (BBC News)
- City of London lobby urges EU to grant UK financial services firms widespread access to its markets (City AM)
- BP sinks to first loss in a decade on pandemic hit (Reuters)
- Silver, GameStop sink as investor frenzy shows signs of cooling (Bloomberg)
- US tariffs on Scotch whisky 'have cost £500m in lost exports' (The Guardian)
- Scams hit highest number on record in 2020 - but more than half of people who fall victim don't report them (Sky News)
- Electric cars: Rollout of charging points still too slow (BBC News)
- PwC's new leader of FS: 'The outcome of Brexit on financial services is still unknown' (City AM)
- Remote working’s longer hours are new normal for many (Bloomberg)
- Former chancellor George Osborne to become full-time banker (The Guardian)
That's all for today. Check back tomorrow for your Wednesday briefing.