Bank referral rules ‘will help bridge the gap’
Banks will soon be obliged to pass on SMEs to alternative finance providers, a move that one lender suggests will help bring businesses and providers together
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More small firms looking to export, post-Brexit
Latest BIbby FS Confidence Tracker reveals Brexit has yet to dent SME confidence and has in fact led to more small firms looking to do business overseas
BBB announces £40m more for small businesses
British Business Bank makes latest inroads into SME funding by providing seed finance to specialist PE house
Credit union and enterprise centre partnership breaks new ground
Tie up between credit union and enterprise agency marks new ground for Kensington Council, which hopes to help start ups
Four key financial challenges for business owners – and how to overcome them
Liberis looks at some of the financial challenges facing business owners and how to overcome them
Brexit fails to dampen SME payments
Latest moneycorp figures reveal UK businesses carrying on with euro business
Minister and CICM trumpet success of PPC, with more to come
Prompt Payment Code has enjoyed some success, but more work required to stamp out late payments
Four tips to tackle late payments
As more SMEs report problems getting paid on time, working capital solutions provider produces timely list of tips to tackle the issue
Small firms should be able to recover Levy costs
'Let SMEs recover training costs under Levy regime' - CBI DG Fairbairn
SMEs struggling with National Living Wage
FSB calls for more flexibility to allow small businesses adapt to the demands of the National Living Wage as research shows profits and investment hit by higher wage costs
