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    • Thursday, 18 May, 2023
      Capita PLC
      Capita’s data breach fallout widens as local councils launch probes

      Local authorities confirm their files were left in unsecured cloud-based data storage system

    • Wednesday, 17 May, 2023
      Capita PLC
      Capita hit by new data breach incident

      Colchester Council said files including benefits data were found on an unsecured Amazon Data Bucket controlled by the outsourcer

    • Friday, 12 May, 2023
      Universities Superannuation Scheme
      Leading pensions client warns data for 470,000 members at risk from Capita hack

      UK’s biggest private sector pension plan says private details of members were on outsourcer’s hacked servers

    • Wednesday, 10 May, 2023
      Capita PLC
      Capita says cyber attack will cost it up to £20mn

      Data was leaked from less than 0.1% of outsourcer’s servers as result of incident, says company

    • Thursday, 4 May, 2023
      Cyber Security
      Capita warns some pensions data ‘likely’ to have been taken in cyber attack

      Outsourcer tells trustees its investigation could be finalised by end of next week

    • Wednesday, 3 May, 2023
      Capita PLC
      FCA contacts Capita’s clients over cyber attack

      UK regulators urge outsourcer’s customers, including insurers and pension funds, to examine data loss

    • Friday, 31 March, 2023
      Capita PLC
      Capita hit by IT failure that left staff unable to access services

      UK outsourcer and government contractor says local authority as well as business services were disrupted

    • Friday, 17 February, 2023
      KPMG UK
      KPMG settles with Carillion liquidators over £1.3bn audit negligence claim

      Firm had been accused of missing ‘red flags’ on UK outsourcer before it collapsed in 2018

    • Thursday, 16 February, 2023
      Chris Cook
      UK business needs to get the next wave of outsourcing right

      Ask not what your country can do for you but what your company can do for the country

    • Wednesday, 15 February, 2023
      ReviewNon-Fiction
      The Big Con — the case against consultancies

      Mariana Mazzucato and Rosie Collington’s polemic on the need to draw a boundary between state and private activity — and rebuild public sector capability

    • Sunday, 27 November, 2022
      UK politics & policy
      Labour to challenge ministers over Mone PPE contracts

      Opposition decries ‘total failure of due diligence’ of company from which Tory peer allegedly made substantial gains

    • Tuesday, 11 October, 2022
      Ferrovial SA
      Ferrovial sells UK support services business Amey in £400mn deal

      Buyout firms One Equity Partners and Buckthorn Partners to buy business that has been drag on Spanish owner

    • Friday, 29 July, 2022
      KPMG UK
      KPMG accuses Carillion management of doctoring audit information

      Big Four firm denies it is responsible for £1.3bn of losses claimed by liquidators of collapsed outsourcer

    • Thursday, 28 July, 2022
      Carillion PLC
      Former Carillion executives fined over ‘misleadingly positive’ statements

      UK watchdog says three directors ‘acted recklessly’ in lead-up to outsourcing group’s collapse

    • Wednesday, 29 June, 2022
      National Health Service
      Lancet study links NHS privatisation with decline in patient care

      Research suggests rise in outsourcing led to ‘higher rates of treatable mortality’ from 2013-20

    • Thursday, 26 May, 2022
      Serco Group PLC
      Immigration work helps Serco overcome end of UK Covid contracts

      Shares jump as revenues and profits upgraded above previous forecasts

    • Thursday, 28 April, 2022
      UK business & economy
      SFO outsources disclosure in G4S case after high-profile case failures

      Anti-graft agency appoints legal tech group Anexsys to help handle review of evidence to be shared with defence

    • Sunday, 24 April, 2022
      Accounting & Consulting services
      KPMG wins UK government contracts despite withdrawing from bidding after scandals

      Big Four consultancy secures £10mn of public sector work since saying it would stop pitching

    • Monday, 18 April, 2022
      News in-depth
      Construction and outsourcing groups still prone to audit failures

      Four years after Carillion’s collapse, many rivals have attracted attention of accounting regulator

    • Saturday, 2 April, 2022
      News in-depthRetail & Consumer industry
      Caterers cook up cloud kitchen strategy for post-pandemic offices

      Traditional groups offer modern menus and flexible canteens as they adapt to workplace change

    • Thursday, 24 February, 2022
      Serco Group PLC
      Serco profits buoyed by government Covid contracts

      Outsourcer increases dividend by 15% and launches £90mn share buyback

    • Thursday, 3 February, 2022
      KPMG UK
      KPMG sued for £1.3bn over Carillion audit

      Official receiver alleges that any competent auditor would have detected the misstatements at UK outsourcer

    • Monday, 10 January, 2022
      KPMG UK
      KPMG admits ‘misconduct’ as regulator alleges forgery by Carillion auditors

      FRC opens case against accounting firm that is expected to last five weeks

    • Wednesday, 24 November, 2021
      Healthcare
      Private hospitals benefit from furlough despite strong recovery

      Many healthcare providers have seen a boom in NHS work and self-paying patients

    • Monday, 15 November, 2021
      Serco Group PLC
      Covid contracts push Serco to upgrade full-year profit outlook

      Work housing asylum seekers also boosts revenues

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