UK Finance News

A major new service for businesses will go live on Wednesday allowing start-ups, small business and SMEs to explore their finance and funding options quickly and easily, as new data shows public sector funding has dropped by a quarter.
Statistics from BusinessFunding.co.uk’s database – which tracks over 1,000 UK business funding sources – show the number [...]

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At a time when the whole of the UK appears to be entrenched in recession many businesses are facing an uphill struggle to secure new business, this most time consuming of jobs is further exasperated by a market that has become more and more dependent on price cutting in the face of the economic crisis.
It [...]

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The chief executive of the British Bankers’ Association, Angela Knight has spoken out in defence of high street banks who have been under increasing pressure to make more funds readily available for small and medium sized businesses in the UK.
In an article on the BBC news site Knight reiterates the recent findings of the Bank [...]

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It is still early days for the new coalition government to get tough with high street banks, but according to recent research the traditional UK banking sector is still not fulfilling its promise to make more funds available to small businesses.
The Forum of Private Business claims that business owners are finding it more difficult than [...]

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Almost every entrepreneur and small business owner has been there at least once. You come up with and put into practice an idea to start something you believe is special and therefore very important to you, something that you think could shape your destiny and that could lead to a safe and secure future for [...]

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