The National Enterprise Network (NEN) highlights the parts of the chancellor’s Spending Review and how they will impact micro and small businesses, as well as the associations that support them. In her Three Year Spending Plan she revealed the key priorities that will impact small businesses, startups, and enterprise support organisations. But at the same […]
Specialist lender Hodge has announced the appointment of Nurlana Kerimli as its new business development manager for London and the South-East, further strengthening its support for brokers and customers. Bringing over a decade of lending experience and broker development, Nurlana joins Hodge from AiR / Answers in Retirement, where she worked as a senior business development […]
Payment Assist, the UK’s leading provider of Buy Now Pay Later (BNPL) and retail finance solutions for the automotive sector, has announced the launch of a business lending division, expanding its offering to include merchant cash advance, business loans, invoice finance and business credit cards. The move marks a major step forward in Payment Assist’s […]
Time Finance has welcomed Paul Rice as business development manager within its invoice finance team in a move to expand the independent lender’s provision of funding support for SMEs across London and the South East. In his new role Paul will be responsible for building Time Finance’s network of introducers across the south as the […]
Markets are eyeing the Federal Reserve with fresh optimism after US inflation (CPI) data came in just below expectations for the fourth straight month – but investors should not expect a rate cut just yet, warns the CEO of one of the world’s largest independent financial advisory and asset management organizations. The May Consumer Price […]
Today the government has announced that it is transforming the resources and capabilities of the British Business Bank to deliver the UK’s modern Industrial Strategy and boost growth, marking a major step change in financing to support smaller businesses to start and scale in the UK. The British Business Bank’s total financial capacity will be […]
A new survey of 1,000 European workers across Italy, France, Spain, Germany, and the UK reveals growing anxiety over the spread of US corporate culture in Europe. More than eight in ten (83%) of employees are concerned that high-profile US leaders like Elon Musk – especially during his time in the Trump administration – could be […]
Gross domestic product (GDP) in the G20 area rose by 0.8% in the first quarter of 2025, slightly down from 0.9% in the previous quarter, according to provisional estimates (Figure 1). However, the picture was mixed among G20 countries. In Korea and the United States, GDP contracted, by respectively 0.2% and 0.1%, in Q1 2025, […]
Xeinadin, one of the UK’s top 20 professional services firms, has acquired KBSP, a trusted and long-established accountancy practice based in Swiss Cottage, North London. The move bolsters Xeinadin’s presence in the capital, giving clients in North London access to broader expertise without losing the relationships they trust. KBSP was founded in the 1960s and […]
The latest HPI data from e.surv and Acadata highlights a significant increase in transaction volumes in the lead-up to the stamp duty rise for first-time buyers (Figure 1), but also spotlights that the impact on market prices has been much more muted. Figure 1. Stamp duty changes distort the monthly pattern of activity In May, […]
