NatWest has today announced an additional £1bn in funding to help support female-led businesses in the UK recover from the coronavirus. The aim is to ultimately help female entrepreneurs scale and grow, and builds on the £1bn announced last January, which was the largest intervention by a UK lender focused specifically on female-led businesses. The […]
Commenting on the Scottish Insolvency Statistics, October to December 2020, Tim Cooper, chair of R3 in Scotland, the insolvency and restructuring trade body, says: “2020 was a year like no other in living memory. The pandemic upended many normal ways of living and doing business, and took a terrible toll on our communities. “Against this background, […]
Specialist business property adviser, Christie & Co, has today launched its annual Business Outlook report, ‘Business Outlook 2021: Review. Realign. Recover,’ which reflects on the themes, activity and challenges of 2020 and forecasts what 2021 might bring across the industries in which Christie & Co operates, including the care sector. Despite the unprecedented challenges of […]
moneycorp, the foreign exchange and international payments specialist, has announced a partnership with Achilles, global leaders in supply chain risk and performance management. The partnership will enable Achilles customers to access cost effective expert advice on international payments and currency exchange, which will reduce supply chain currency costs and increase efficiency. Achilles’ worldwide network of buyers […]
The latest research by, Astons, the international experts on real estate, residency and citizenship through investment has revealed the extent to which the current pandemic has hit London’s high-end market where property prices are concerned. Aston’s analysed sold price records across the capital’s 10 most high-profile, prime property postcodes, comparing the average sold price secured […]
The UK has the potential to play a major part in shaping the future of Chinese outbound investment activities, say leading tax and advisory firm Blick Rothenberg Winnie Jinyue Cao, a director at the firm, said: “The UK should urgently strengthen its economic ,business and cultural ties with China.” She added: “China, the world’s second […]
The population of India is currently the second largest in the world, and is set to overtake China as the most populous country in the world by 2026, when the population is set to reach 1.46 billion. India’s economy is the sixth largest in the world, and is on track to be the third largest […]
Specialist lender Reditum Lending – a subsidiary of Reditum Capital – has entered the UK market to help those looking for short-term finance to supercharge commercial and residential property projects. London-based Reditum Lending will provide bridging loans from £500,000 to property professionals and developers via its 80-strong broker network, which includes Vibe Finance and DRM […]
Paragon has provided Acorn Property Group with a £4.9m loan to support the acquisition of a site in Padstow town centre and its development into ten luxury apartments. Divided across three new buildings, The Padstow Collection is an exclusive development of ten, two and three-bedroom homes with views of the Camel Estuary. Melanie Omirou, group […]
Tech Nation, the scaleup network for entrepreneurs, launches its inaugural Scale Ratio, which compares the number of seed stage, early growth and late growth companies in the UK’s tech ecosystems. Tech Nation reveals that a 50:30:20 ratio of seed (50%), early growth (30%), late growth (20%) companies in a UK regional tech hub is indicative […]
