Slow due diligence blamed as SMEs avoid banking services
As many as 38 per cent of UK businesses have deliberately abandoned an application for banking services in the past year…
Articles by Director of Finance
Cautious reaction to Sunak’s grants for workers
Self-employed workers can now apply for a grant worth 80 per cent of their average monthly profits to help them through…
Work drying up, income falling – it doesn’t have to mean redundancies
As the UK faces a period of significant financial disruption, businesses have already been badly hit with work decreasing, jobs cancelled…
Coronavirus loan scheme accepting applications
The government’s COVID-19 small business loan scheme announced in the Budget, is now live. This means loans are now available to…
Coronavirus – can you break your contracts and are you insured?
With the impact of COVID-19 being felt by businesses more every day, many are looking at their contracts and insurance policies…
How the finance sector welcomes technology
The majority of UK finance workers have widely rejected the idea that technology such as automation and artificial intelligence will “steal their job”….
Tech firms reveal Coronavirus support package
Some of the UK’s leading technology providers are unveiling specialist support packages to help companies survive the Coronavirus outbreak. With millions…
Businesses welcome IR35 delay
The government has postponed its controversial reforms to the IR35 tax rules for a year in an attempt to take the…
Spearvest launches Spanish logistics fund
After its successful co-investment transaction near Lausanne, Switzerland (CHF 36m Mix-Use Building), wealth management firm Spearvest is building a diversified portfolio…
Budget 2020: How did businesses react?
Response was swift to Chancellor Rishi Sunak’s budget and, in particular, the way it addressed the threat of Coronavirus. Sunak described…