Only 17% of financial advice business owners and wealth management chief executives have confidence in their ability to secure affordable Professional Indemnity Insurance (PII) in the future, a survey of PIMFA members has revealed. The survey of 84 business owners and chief executives of member firms of PIMFA, the trade association for the wealth management […]
CapitalBox, the leading online pan-European SME funding platform, today announces the acquisition of the Netherlands division of fintech company Spotcap Global as part of its own ongoing European expansion. Spotcap NL is one of the most prominent online SME lenders in the Dutch market. CapitalBox’s acquisition of Spotcap NL marks a significant milestone in the […]
For the first time this year, small business confidence has held firm from one quarter to the next. The day after the government announced its three-tier Covid restrictions, new research suggests the avoidance of a second national lockdown and certainty of direction until March has had a positive impact on UK small business confidence. The […]
New research commissioned by MBH Corporation plc, a UK headquartered listed diversified investment holding company that acquires successful, strong-performing small to medium enterprises across multiple geographies and sectors, reveals that 1 in 5 SMEs still expect to make a profit in 2020, with 24% expecting to break even and the remainder believing they will either […]
Dreyfus Corporation announces financing available for small businesses hit by the coronavirus pandemic with a €250m euro investment into small businesses and start-up projects across the European Union. The scheme which has been backed by MEP’s throughout Europe and will see two per cent interest loans to small companies struggling and starting up in all […]
Last month, the CBI welcomed the prime minister’s Lifetime Skills Guarantee to help solve the urgent skills challenge facing the UK jobs market. Yet research carried out prior to the pandemic shows an urgent need to go further and faster to reskill the country’s workforce. The UK faces a stark choice: invest more in lifetime […]
As lockdown restrictions were reintroduced throughout September, online sales returned to patterns that would be expected this time of year. In comparison to the spending surges seen during phase 1 of the lockdown, last month recorded steady seasonal online sales growth of +42% year-on-year (YoY) – below the peak growth of 51% in June, but […]
UK small enterprises saw output rise again in September, although growth continued to trail behind larger companies as smaller hospitality firms were hit by restrictions on trading, according to the latest edition of the NatWest UK Small Business PMI® report. The NatWest UK Small Business PMI® survey provides unique market insight on how small businesses […]
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 […]
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 […]
