Marketplace lender Assetz Capital has bolstered its headcount with the appointment of five new relationship directors since the beginning of November as it approaches its £1bn lending milestone. Lee Francis has over 20 years’ experience in the corporate banking sector, having held senior positions at Santander and Clydesdale Bank as relationship director in the London […]
The DHL Global Trade Barometer (GTB) indicates a further contraction in world trade for the next three months, with China recording the weakest growth outlook compared to all surveyed GTB countries. China’s ocean and air imports in certain sectors look set to remain strong as domestic consumption drives the economy amidst an overall decline in […]
NatWest has today announced it is opening its doors to new applications to join its in-house Entrepreneur Accelerator programme, offering a fully funded support programme for UK scale-ups and high growth businesses looking to scale and succeed. The bank is now accepting applications from growing businesses with ambition to scale to join the programme, with […]
Investec Capital Solutions is pleased to announce the launch of the Investec Flexible Trading Account. Investec is offering the Flexible Trading Account, a multifaceted solution which supports growth by providing working capital and cashflow throughout the buying and sales cycle with FX and hedging facilities. This account is designed to help clients, especially exporters and […]
New research from FreeAgent conducted on 2000 self employed people in the UK, today reveals that more than half (57%) don’t know what IR35 is. The sets of tax legislation encompassed by IR35, designed to combat tax avoidance by workers and the firms hiring them, is unknown to over half of the people most affected […]
As of the 25th November 2019, new SRA regulations allow solicitors to practice in unreserved matters using the title ‘solicitor’. Many solicitors have been providing legal services through unregulated and regulated practices for a number of years, but without official endorsement from the SRA. The new regulations also now state officially that professional indemnity insurance […]
Esme Loans, the SME digital lender backed by NatWest, has today achieved £100m of lending to UK SMEs. Esme started life in February 2017 in pilot, with the aim to provide end to end business loans to UK businesses in less than one hour, using a digital platform based on technology provided by Israeli fintech […]
Marketplace lender Assetz Capital has provided a £3.3m development loan to Artisan (UK) Developments to fund the construction of 14 commercial units in Bedfordshire. The loan is required to fund the project which will be suitable for a range of uses such as offices, clinics and research and development. Each unit is constructed to a […]
The Board of Banking Competition Remedies Ltd (BCR) has published the second update from Pool A recipients and first update from Pool B and D recipients, which provides a summary of performance against their public commitments. The public commitments updates indicate that mobilisation of the awardees is now moving into delivery. The updates of those […]
Family firms are still largely being handed down to sons rather than daughters, according to research conducted by Cynergy Bank. While women are better represented at board level, compared with non-family firms, they are frequently overlooked for leadership roles. Those who inherited their business did so mostly from their father or their grandfather with only […]
