A new campaign to support businesses that are safely open for business in the West Midlands launches today. #WMOpen4Biz is being run by the West Midlands Combined Authority (WMCA) and is backed by the region’s trade and industry leaders, to encourage shoppers and residents to safely return to town and city centres. Since June, businesses […]
Codat – a London-based technology company that connects the internal systems of small businesses to banks, fintechs and other financial institutions, allowing business data to flow back and forth in real time – has announced it has become a Microsoft partner. This means Codat is ‘co-sell ready’, enabling it to work with Microsoft to help […]
Independent business lender White Oak has today announced it has successfully distributed over £100m of loans to SMEs since its accreditation to the government’s Coronavirus Business Interruption Loan Scheme (CBILS) in May. The key milestone follows the completion of a £150m securitisation facility from Barclays Bank, which allowed White Oak to deploy additional lending to […]
Chartered Accountants Wylie & Bisset is urging SMEs to take advantage of post-Covid opportunities to implement circular economy practices to boost growth, job creation and innovative sustainable solutions. Partner Andrew Cowling said that the Circular Economy presents various financial and competitive opportunities for those companies ready and willing to embrace its principles. “Job creation, stimulating […]
Together has praised its specialist distributer partner First 4 Bridging (F4B) for its expert packaging of a commercial mortgage application – allowing the deal to complete in four hours. A client, who is an NHS worker and commercial landlord from Birmingham, approached F4B to raise the finance she needed to expand her property portfolio in […]
Alternative SME credit specialist Caple has helped The Energy Check, a business energy-saving consultancy, to access a £2.1m six-year fully unsecured growth loan. As a result of this, the business expects revenue to grow by 155% and to increase jobs by 22% over the next three years. Newcastle-based The Energy Check helps SME business owners […]
It is estimated that less than 1% of all UK venture funding is awarded to all-female teams. A figure which Fund Her North – a collective of 28 women with a combined investment power over £250m – just won’t accept for the 51% of women in the UK. Launching on 14th October, Fund Her North’s […]
Two top emerging entrepreneurs, and potential business success stories of tomorrow, have been unveiled at the tenth annual Santander Universities Entrepreneurship Awards 2020, a prestigious UK-wide entrepreneurial business pitching competition for students and recent graduates. The two talented winners which will receive £30,000 worth of seed funding towards their forward-thinking businesses and a fully funded […]
By Chris Black, commercial director at vehicle leasing experts LeasePlan UK Salary sacrifice schemes have become very popular over the past few years as employers look to find new ways of delivering cost effective benefits package in a way that attracts and retains the best talent. These schemes allow employees to use a portion of […]
Despite October being one of the biggest months for the collection of Corporation tax, many companies may simply skip their Corporation tax liability and not pay, say leading tax and advisory from Blick Rothenberg. Genevieve Morris, head of corporate tax at the firm said: “Even businesses which made healthy profits in 2019 may now be […]
