Treyd UK Broker Pulse Check
Broker opinion survey confirms that UK SME sector is strangled of liquidity.
At the NACFB Expo 2026 Treyd interviewed 49 brokerages. https://www.surveymonkey.com/results/SM-yWd_2BIaS6gFyQkIUWZLbccw_3D_3D/
The most telling statistic to emerge was that 40% of those interviewed had found that too much existing debt precluded the client SME from seeking further finance.
Business Money group editor, Robert Lefroy, commented: “Not only is the nation as an international creditor over-indebted but its 5.4 million wealth creating Bedrock businesses are too. A legacy of Covid lending still requiring paying down, recent minimum wage rises, accompanied by the customary righteous and economically illiterate ballyhoo from the government’s bloated PR cohorts, plus HMRC’s Making Tax Digital dream scene, pocket picking with its accelerated grabbing of predicted profits, the nation’s hardest workers by far are being stripped of the liquidity they must have to sustain their businesses and underpin UK plc.
Business Money is encouraging a Better Business Borrowing campaign to ensure that the nation’s business owners are better informed as to what is available though the results of The Treyd Broker Pulse Check demonstrate that too many may be faced with severe liquidity challenges”.