Simon Carter of Touch Financial shares results of a recent survey on lending to SMEs. Continue Reading

Small firms struggling to access finance to start exporting will be able to apply for loans of up to £1 million from April 2011, under a Government-backed lending scheme. Continue Reading

With less than two months until the Bribery Act 2010 comes into force, brokers and lenders are beginning to ask, “Am I guilty?!” Continue Reading

Following the publication of his book, ‘A Blueprint For Better Banking’, Niels Kroner comments on banks’ approach to lending:

Over the past year, the media has been full of terrible news about the availability of credit to most companies, especially SMEs. Many lenders, even relatively healthy ones, seemed to have tightened credit standards considerably. Continue Reading