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Deloitte, the business advisory firm, today announces Jurga McCluskey has joined as partner and head of Deloitte's UK immigration practice. Jurga joins from PwC Legal LLP where she was Head of Private Clients and the lead on a number of key corporate clients. Prior to this, she spent four years with Fragomen LLP.

In January 2015, companies based in G7 countries announced $4.7 billion worth of acquisitions in the emerging markets, according to Deloitte. This was nearly three times the $1.5 billion announced by emerging market companies in G7 markets.

The introduction of independent governance committees (IGCs), as outlined in today’s FCA Policy Statement, will come as an additional safeguard to help protect members of workplace personal pension schemes.

The UK new car market is closing in on three years’ worth of unbroken comparative growth with a positive start to 2015. With this trend originally having been largely supported by the private buyer, it will be interesting to see whether the initial reported growth in business related sales in January continues through 2015.

Deloitte has launched a call to action encouraging its employees to sign up as LGBT allies. The Deloitte Allies Programme, which was introduced in December 2014, has already achieved over 500 registrations and is still growing rapidly.