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Our inaugural stakeholder event, Insolvency Live! was held on 28 July 2016. Find out how it went.

Two companies that sold dubious oil investment products to members of the public in the UK have been wound-up in the High Court.

The fees charged to apply for bankruptcy and company insolvency are changing from 21 July 2016.

The fees charged to apply for bankruptcy and company insolvency are changing from 21 July 2016.

On the 30th June 2016, the Official Receiver’s Lloyds bank account will close. Please amend your records to reflect the new account details.

BHS entered insolvency on 22 April 2016. Duff & Phelps were appointed as administrators.

The Insolvency Service is hosting our inaugural stakeholder event, Insolvency Live! on 28 July 2016 in London.

We will stop publishing advertising disqualification orders obtained in Scotland in the Edinburgh Gazette from 1 June 2016.

The Insolvency Service disqualified more than 1,200 company directors and wound up 131 companies in the public interest in 2015/16.

The bankruptcy application process and fee were changed on 06 April 2016.

Mrs Sakine Ulas, a director of Milox Limited trading as Divan Restaurant a Turkish restaurant based in Borehamwood Hertfordshire, has been disqualified from acting as a company director for 11 years for deliberately failing to ensure that the company had properly and accurately accounted for VAT and corporation tax.

If you are in the process of or are thinking about applying for bankruptcy, it’s important that you understand the changes to the application process that are happening on 06 April 2016.

The Law Society has applied to the Secretary of State for Business to give up its status as a recognised professional body for insolvency practitioners.

In our spring stakeholder newsletter we provide updates on the Rules, online bankruptcy applications, recent enforcement successes, a new way to report on directors' conduct, changes to Official Receiver fees and more.

Volnei Augusto Borgert has been disqualified from acting as a director for 7 years for causing Camboriu Restaurants Limited to file false VAT returns and for taking £47,280 from the company in the last month of trading, after being told not to.

We are aware that some people using Chrome and Firefox as the internet browser to access our online services are currently experiencing difficulties.

Issues accessing our online services using Chrome and Firefox

We are delighted that the Chair of the Insolvency Service’s Board, David Ereira, has been recognised in the New Year’s Honours list with an OBE.

1,500 new readers followed The Insolvency Service on Twitter during 2015.

Marios Georgallides, of Highgate, London, has been disqualified from acting as a company director for a further 12 years for acting as a director whilst already disqualified, for failing to pay crown debts of £1.3m and for abusing a company’s banking facilities.

The Law society Scotland has applied to the Secretary of State for Business to give up its designation as a professional body for insolvency practitioners.

Information about claims to the Redundancy Payments Service for Holiday Pay prior to August 2011

In our Autumn newsletter we cover changes to the insolvency regime, new measures to strengthen the director disqualification process, developing the new online bankruptcy service, recent cases dealt with by the Official Receiver and more.

Changes are being introduced to insolvencies, the director disqualification process and the regulation of insolvency practitioners following the passage of the Deregulation Act 2015 and Small Business, Enterprise and Employment Act 2015.

We have now resolved the issues we have been experiencing this week with our online services.

Sahaviriya Steel Industries UK Limited (SSI) has been wound up in the High Court and the Official Receiver has been appointed as liquidator.

The Insolvency Service is launching new and improved guidance content. Update: New guide to bankruptcy published.