Pandemic and pensions – savers are getting younger
The pandemic has positively changed people’s attitudes towards finances, driving a shift towards saving for the future – particularly among younger…
Economy
Is the CFO’s planning pandemic only just beginning?
Guest post by Mark Jenkins Failing to plan is planning to fail. As CFOs we know this adage well, yet in…
Pandemic ‘saw £615 billion private funding bonanza’
UK firms defied predictions of the demise of private capital by raising over half a trillion pounds last year outside of…
How to build loyalty to acquire and retain customers
By Mike Elliff To say 2020 was a challenging period for business owners is more than an understatement. For the first…
Back to school means back to profit, bank predicts
More than a fifth of small businesses expect their productivity to rise as children now that children are going back to…
Why the West is struggling to balance the books
Businesses in the South West have been getting increasingly into debt during lockdown, with credit card bills and overdrafts mounting and…
Mortgage approvals up, but experts warn of housing market crash
Guest post by Daniel Tannenbaum According to figures from the Bank of England, the number of mortgages approved by lenders in…
Business confidence edges up, but remains near historic low
Overall business confidence improved for the second consecutive month in July, rising eight percentage points according to the Lloyds Bank Commercial…
Crowdfund donations ‘rose 1,000 per cent in Lockdown’
As the pandemic swept across the country earlier this year, crowdfunding campaigns were soaring on course to raise record amounts, according…
Job loss fears as North braced for new Lockdown
More than half of finance directors in Yorkshire expect to make Covid-related redundancies with as many as nine in ten braved…