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Shire Leasing has announced that it has surpassed £100 million in own book lending. The news comes only 5 months after it secured a further £37.4m facility under the government-backed British Business Bank’s ENABLE Funding programme, in place to help it increase funding to smaller businesses. Mark Picken, Shire’s Managing Director, said “The £100 million figure is…
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Parents who increasingly have to fork out for iPads, extracurricular activities and uniforms when their children go back to school, are being advised to budget carefully to avoid being pulled into a cycle of debt. PayPlan says that while the price of uniforms has been driven down in recent years, families still have to pay…
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The amount of tax HMRC suspects may have been underpaid by big businesses has increased to £24.8bn, a 13% rise on the previous year following a widening of the scope of investigations, according to analysis by law firm Pinsent Masons. Pinsent Masons says that the amount of tax that HMRC’s large business directorate believes is…
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The Bank of England latest statistics showed a £200 million decrease in loans to smaller businesses during July. Mike Cherry, Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) National Chairman, said “Small businesses appetite for new finance is waning against a backdrop of unprecedented uncertainty, anaemic domestic growth and inflationary pressure weighing on consumer demand. Investment intentions are not where they should be…
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European conference, LendIt Europe has announced a unique partnership with SeedInvest, a leading equity crowdfunding platform, to enable delegate investment live from the conference floor at this year’s event. The live fundraising feature, which will be an industry first in Europe, will allow eight of the PitchIt finalists to raise money immediately at the event…
Read moreThe Government has announced changes to corporate governance. Commenting on the announcement Mike Cherry, the Federation of Small Businesses National Chairman, said: “Poor payments culture in the UK has grown into an epidemic, with research showing that a third of payments to small businesses are late. These practices are immoral, with the largest businesses using their dominant position to…
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Redwood Bank, a new business bank for SMEs, has announced that just over four months after securing its initial banking licence, it has completed its “mobilisation” phase and has now opened for business, offering secured SME mortgages for business owners, as well as for experienced commercial and residential property investors. It has also launched a…
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Late payments remain a persistent issue globally nearly a decade past the 2008 crisis, but the long-term outlook is optimistic. A 3% improvement in the cash-to-cash cycle of UK companies has released £8.8bn previously tied up in working capital, according to Grant Thornton’s latest UK Working Capital Survey. Individual businesses, not just the economy benefit…
Read moreA growing number of micro, small and medium-sized businesses know they can shop around for a better water deal, but more than half are still unaware of the new market in England according to the first in a series of online surveys by the Consumer Council for Water (CCWater) aimed at tracking awareness of the…
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Responding to the Government release of its plans for a shared approach to data protection, Mike Cherry, National Chairman at the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB), said “Research from FSB shows that data protection is definitely on the minds of small business owners, with almost 60 per cent of members ranking data protection laws as a significant…
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The government has published its position paper on post-Brexit civil judicial cooperation which states that the government will seek a post-Brexit agreement which “reflects closely the substantive principles of cooperation under the current EU framework. Commenting on the paper Adrian Hyde, President of insolvency and restructuring trade body R3, said “The UK’s insolvency and restructuring profession…
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The Association of Short Term Lenders (ASTL) has today announced its new executive committee for the upcoming year. The new board will take effect as of the 1st September 2017. The board will continue to comprise seven directors who will act as a guiding influence, while providing direction and decision making to the Association. Benson Hersch,…
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Small businesses are still fighting an uphill battle to secure public sector contracts, according to the latest report from the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB), which means the Government’s new targets for SME public procurement are unlikely to be met. FSB is calling on Government and the public sector to step up efforts to remove…
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