The British Retail Consortium is today launching a new national advertising campaign calling on the public to start their Christmas shopping earlier to help spread demand during what is traditionally the busiest shopping time of the year. The ‘Shop early, start wrapping, enjoy Christmas’ campaign is designed to encourage the public to embrace the true […]
The British Business Bank, the UK’s economic development bank, has been commissioned by Number 10 to convene an industry-wide working group on access to capital, which will explore the barriers to entrepreneurship and access to finance that impact groups currently marginalised or under-represented across the UK. The recommendations will feed into the ‘Employment and Enterprise’ […]
Birmingham City University has announced the launch of the first accounting and Islamic finance undergraduate course in the UK – a niche of the finance industry set to grow exponentially in coming years. The BSc (Hons) Accounting and Islamic Finance degree will see students study Islamic economics, whilst developing an understanding of corporate social responsibility […]
Crowd partnered with the Department for International Trade and London & Partners to help create ‘Exporting Excellence’. This initiative brings together some of the world’s best minds to help UK businesses realise their commercial ambitions abroad. This groundbreaking initiative will be held between 21st and 23rd October 2020, and is an unmissable event for anyone […]
Landbay, one of the UK’s leading buy-to-let lenders, has joined Synergy Commercial Finance’s network panel. Landbay was already on Synergy’s packager panel but will now provide Synergy’s commercial broker members with access to its comprehensive range of specialist buy-to-let products at highly competitive rates. A key benefit of the partnership is that Synergy’s members will […]
Research carried out by Cifas, the UK’s leading fraud prevention service, shows that 80% of fraud prevention professionals believe businesses are unprepared for an expected surge in fraud as the Covid-19 crisis presents fraudsters with new opportunities. The results come as part of a survey carried out among professionals from some of the UK’s leading […]
A survey of 350 organisations, conducted by HRLocker, reveals almost one in three (31%) UK organisations plan to make employees redundant as part of their cost containment strategies over the coming six months. In addition to redundancies, other scheduled cost saving measures include recruitment freezes (43%), lay-offs (37%), reduced working hours (31%), pay-cuts (23%) and […]
Academy Leasing is delighted to announce they have supported Lancashire-based business, SEP Rail Services, expand their operations and secure new contracts. The new fleet of leased vehicles supplied by Academy Leasing will play an instrumental role in helping drive their business forward. The firm which measures, models, and engineers the nation’s railways has built a […]
Leading alternative lender to mid-sized SMEs, ThinCats has supported £3.7m in refinance and capital expenditure funding for children’s services provider My Choice Children’s Homes Limited, advised by Yorkshire based Corporate Finance advisory firm, Castle Square Corporate Finance. My Choice Children’s Homes was established in 2000 as a provider of specialist children’s residential care and educational […]
Nathan joins UTB from Metro Bank where he has been director of their asset finance division since 2015. Nathan will take up his new position at UTB later this year. Nathan is a successful asset finance professional with over 20 years’ experience in the industry. After spending 15 years with Wesleyan Bank as sales director […]
