Metro Bank, known for its exceptional customer service, is soon to open its 71st store in the heart of Liverpool city centre on Paradise Street. The Bank recently achieved the top spot in the CMA’s Service Quality Survey for the second time running. Metro Bank offers customers and businesses the choice to bank however, whenever […]
Entrepreneurial British manufacturers are expected to benefit from a massive £13bn boost as they increasingly cut out retailers and wholesalers and sell their products direct to consumers in one of the biggest shake-ups the industry has seen in generations, according to a new Barclays Corporate Banking Manufacturing report, Going direct: Is direct to consumer selling […]
Equals Group PLC, the e-banking and international payments group, is pleased to announce a further acquisition aligned to its publicly stated expansion strategy. The group has acquired the entire issued ordinary share capital of Casco Financial Services Limited (“Casco”), a UK based payment services provider (the “Acquistion”). The initial consideration for the Acquisition is £1.725m […]
Manchester and Liverpool are among the UK’s top 10 most attractive cities for hotel investment, according to research by Deloitte. The business advisory firm’s European Hotel Industry Survey reveals that Manchester was ranked the UK’s fourth most attractive city for hotel investment, following a survey of more than 100 senior figures from the international hospitality […]
Nearly half (48%) of advisers say their knowledge of what is on offer in alternative asset classes was either “poor” or “average”, according to a new independent survey commissioned by JR Bloodstock Investments. Of those IFAs polled, just 7% said they considered their knowledge of available alternative investments to be “excellent”. In particular, four fifths […]
These are the findings of the P2P platform Robo.cash based on a survey among European P2P investors. Respondents show positive attitude towards digital services in general, which in large part is due to the age aspect. Most of them are Millennials and Gen Z who have grown together with the digital environment. The majority of […]
The number of manufacturing businesses entering insolvency has hit a five-year high rising 7% to 1,466 in the last year (to 30 September 2019) up from 1,373 the previous year, says chartered accountants and business advisors, Moore. Moore says that the rise in manufacturing businesses going insolvent is being driven in part by Brexit-related uncertainty […]
The third white paper written by the TALL Group of Companies Fraud: A changing landscape In terms of recent history, cheque fraud losses peaked in 2008 and during the following 10 years they reduced by more than 85%, far in excess of the decline in cheque volumes over the same period. However, the latest statistics […]
66% of respondents from the accounting and finance sector expect Hong Kong’s economy to contract in 2020 while 73% believe that the city’s competitiveness will decline, according to the latest Hong Kong Economic Survey conducted by CPA Australia. Growing anxiety about the economic outlook The rather bleak prospects for the year ahead is reflected in […]
Over half (54%) of the UK’s SMEs, equating to 3.1 million businesses, admit they had not prepared in any way for Brexit ahead of the 31 October deadline according to the latest Q3 SME Confidence Tracker from Bibby Financial Services. Fewer SMEs are investing and the amount they are investing on average has also fallen. […]
