Entries by David Wallace

ISS Training’s One Hour Series is back

Our ever popular One Hour Series is back for the remainder of 2022. Meet your CPD requirements on a regular basis throughout the year. Join the debate on the day, or listen back to the recorded session at a time that suits you. Our One Hour Series is a cost effective and time efficient way […]

Experienced insolvency professional required to join our unique team 

The business   Insolvency Support Services is an award-winning provider of a uniquely complete range of support services, including training, outsourcing, compliance and practice support, to the UK insolvency market ( e.g. professional practices, regulators, local and national government). Our offering includes face-to-face, online and client-site training courses; independent compliance reviews; practical case progression; technical […]

The ethics of giving advice: avoiding conflicts of interest

Insolvency practitioners face an inherent conflict of interest in giving advice to an individual or company before accepting a subsequent appointment as office holder. We need to find an approach that allows us to build a relationship with a prospective appointment, while ensuring that they understand the consequences of that very appointment and our role […]

Scottish Technical Manager Forum

Insolvency Support Services is pleased to support FRP’s Scottish Technical Manager Forum, which enjoyed its inaugural meeting in April 2022. It’s an opportunity for anyone responsible for Scottish case compliance or technical support to come together on a regular basis and discuss current or common issues faced in Scottish insolvency appointments. The next meeting is […]

ISS Wellbeing Week

After the challenges of the pandemic and a busy couple of years since, we’ve decided to take a health and wellbeing week in July, so the team here at Insolvency Support Services will be enjoying an extra week’s holiday from Monday 11 July to Friday 15 July. The business will be closed for those five days […]

A Director’s Guide to Governance in the Boardroom

Our director Eileen Maclean is a contributing author to the recently published “A Director’s Guide to Governance in the Boardroom”. Edited by Arturo and Monica Langa¸ it is an essential, practical guide for both experienced and aspiring executive and non-executive directors to lead, govern, and steer UK-based organisations. It will also prove extremely valuable for […]

Future of Insolvency Regulation

Our Director Eileen Maclean is taking part in the Edinburgh Insolvency Discussion Group Panel Session on 25 February on the potential changes set out in the Government’s consultation “Future of Insolvency Regulation”. It is very important that the profession engage in the consultation. The aim is to strengthen and modernise the insolvency regulatory regime which […]

Translating statutory AML requirements into meaningful, effective application

Insolvency Support Services Director Eileen Maclean is looking forward to delivering the first IPA Learning online module of 2022 next month. The “How do you translate the statutory AML requirements into meaningful, effective application?” session will take place on 22 February 2022 from 12:30 until 14:00. We will cover how: The legal requirements of the […]

Debt solutions and the impact on executries

Debt, and the Scottish statutory solutions that exist to deal with individual overindebtedness, has the perpetual attention of the Scottish Government and the wider Scottish Parliament. In 2018 the Scottish Parliament’s Economy, Energy & Fair Work Committee refused to approve legislation replacing the common financial statement with the standard financial statement as the statutory common […]

Eileen Maclean to chair Mackay Hannah’s Scottish Business Navigation webinar

Our director Eileen Maclean is looking forward to chairing Mackay Hannah’s upcoming Scottish Business Navigation webinar in partnership with Morton Fraser: “Scottish businesses: meeting the first challenges of returning to normal”. The webinar will be taking place on Monday, 1 November, 10am – 11am (and it is also possible to purchase the recording, if you […]