An alternative view of funding – and debt
Guest columnist Stuart Lawson makes his case SMEs make up 99.9 per cent of the UK’s business population and are responsible…
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Avoiding the pitfalls of early-stage investing
By Chantelle Arneaud Early-stage investments are one-offs which often makes them difficult to assess. This is not helped by the…
Women and finance: bridging the gap
Opinion by Jade De-Crescenzo The old adage from any female in a male over-represented field tends to be: “I got to…
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…
Named: the universities that produce our business leaders
If you want to become a CEO or Managing Director, there’s one way to get off to a flying start –…
Why Mr Mo is one in 750m
The British Business Bank’s Start Up Loans passed a major milestone today, having lent of £750 million, amounting to more than…
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…
It’s official – Lockdown saw a business boom
An all-time record high number of new UK businesses were created during lockdown at 302,000, with aspiring entrepreneurs using the pandemic…
Key hires to drive Clearco expansion
Clearco, the world’s largest e-commerce investor, recently announced plans to expand across Europe with two key executive hires, including a UK…
CBILS fraud fears as business strike-offs surge sevenfold
The number of firms closing after being struck off the Companies House register increased by 743 per cent in the first quarter, compared…