“Fiscal pain equals private-sector jobs gain”. This could be the coalition government’s policy-positive mantra for the age of austerity. Continue Reading

As the global economy struggles out of recession, attention has remained firmly fixed on banking since it is seen as both a symbol of the crisis – and an easy target for blame. Continue Reading

The secret to selling more invoice finance is very simple – listen to the customers and give them what they want. Hence I have set out below our interpretation of what they want based on the feedback we have received from the thousands of potential invoice finance customers that we have spoken to through our brokerage activities: Continue Reading

According to the Hargreaves Lansdown Currency Report, the Pound came under pressure during mid-week, trading at lows of €1.1724 and US$1.5145, as attentions remained fixed on Friday’s European banking sector stress results. Continue Reading

The UK’s main banks and financiers see very little benefit in one of the government’s flagship small business loan schemes, according to the Asset Based Finance Association (ABFA). Continue Reading

Innovation Finance (IF) will be a provider of sales ledger administration and cash flow services to SMEs primarily based in London, the South East and the Home Counties. The company’s Managing Director, Roger Taylor, has recruited a highly experienced and proven management team to join him, a number of whom have previously worked together. Continue Reading

Commercial Finance People recruitment consultants and contributors to KPMG’s monthly ‘Report on Jobs’ (see link at page footer) is experiencing a slight slowing down in numbers of vacancies in June/July (pipeline), despite experiencing an 8 year high in new starts for July 2010. The slowdown is predictable given the start of the holiday season and matches previous trends.  Nonetheless, numbers of vacancies continue to show a marked improvement on the last two years.

Key points from June survey:

• Further strong rise in permanent staff placements, albeit slowest in five months
• Growth of temporary/contract staff billings eased to seven-month low
• Engineering/Construction most sought-after staff category
• Improvement in candidate availability
• Wages and salaries continued to rise

Commenting on the latest survey results, Bernard Brown, Partner and Head of Business Services at KPMG said:

“Demand for workers across all sectors continued to rise in June. Clearly, the proposed public sector cuts have not yet had an impact on the UK jobs market. However, it can now be only a matter of time before we will start to see the impact of the government’s efficiency savings strategy which is likely to leave hundreds of thousands of public sector workers looking for employment. The big challenge will be to transfer as many of these jobs as possible to the private sector through outsourcing and divestment, otherwise the economy will be put under enormous pressure at all levels.”

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