Three developments converged this week to reshape the operating environment for medium enterprises in financial services, professional services, and healthcare, and none of them originated in a boardroom. A sitting prime minister left office and was replaced within a fortnight by a leader with no track record at national level. A war that many businesses had filed under settled risk reignited with enough force to move oil ten percent in a single week. And a report into the collapse of a two billion pound lender revealed that the damage from a single fraud has quietly worked its way through forty nine separate balance sheets across the financial sector.
Get every edition free: subscribe to Frederick Weekly.