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''Business continuity - pandemic - UK.''


A very broad term, embracing the system and structure for, and the participants in, international financial services.  
Project Birch is a UK government plan announced in May 2020 to bail out strategically important UK companies facing financial difficulty due to COVID-19.  


The UK government has:


This includes, amongst others, financial payments, settlements, securities transfer, information exchange, derivatives and the regulation and supervision of these services, which support and govern international trade and investment.
:'indicated that it is prepared to assist large companies "in exceptional circumstances" and as a "last resort" where an otherwise viable company has "exhausted all options" and its failure would "disproportionately harm the UK economy".'
:''DWF Law, Legal Insights, 29 May 2020''




==See also==
==See also==
*[[Financial]]
*[[Bailout]]
*[[International Monetary Fund]]
*[[Bounce Back Loan Scheme]]
*[[Monetary]]
*[[Business continuity plan]]
*[[Coronavirus Business Interruption Loan Scheme]]
*[[Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme]]
*[[Coronavirus Large Business Interruption Loan Scheme]]
* [[Coronavirus crisis]]
*[[COVID-19]]
*[[COVID-19 Corporate Financing Facility]]
*[[Liquidity management]]
*[[State aid]]


==Resources for COVID-19==
[https://www.treasurers.org/hub/technical/covid19 ACT technical - COVID-19]
[https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/guidance-to-employers-and-businesses-about-covid-19/covid-19-support-for-businesses UK government: support for businesses]
[https://www.gov.uk/coronavirus UK government: COVID-19 support hub]
[[Category:Accounting,_tax_and_regulation]]
[[Category:The_business_context]]
[[Category:The_business_context]]
[[Category:Identify_and_assess_risks]]
[[Category:Manage_risks]]

Revision as of 09:26, 6 June 2020

Business continuity - pandemic - UK.

Project Birch is a UK government plan announced in May 2020 to bail out strategically important UK companies facing financial difficulty due to COVID-19.

The UK government has:

'indicated that it is prepared to assist large companies "in exceptional circumstances" and as a "last resort" where an otherwise viable company has "exhausted all options" and its failure would "disproportionately harm the UK economy".'
DWF Law, Legal Insights, 29 May 2020


See also


Resources for COVID-19

ACT technical - COVID-19

UK government: support for businesses

UK government: COVID-19 support hub