Let’s look at two young people who have both made their small business into a huge success.
London has chosen and we have our new mayor. Sadiq Khan, Labour’s candidate and London’s first Muslim mayor – and self-titled “mayor for all Londoners”. But what impact will he have on small businesses in London?
Asset-based finance is the raising of funds using your existing assets as security. Assets can include invoice finance, – where business secure funding against the value of unpaid invoices – stock, equipment and property. According to the Asset-Based Finance Association ABFA, asset-based funding in the UK breaks down into roughly
For a small business owner the landscape of business funding can be bewildering. Not only that, but there is still an unacceptably high rate of rejection for those small business trying to get a business loan. This is despite a supposed improved availability of credit: The British Business Bank (BBB)
Taxation is very much in the news at the moment! The so-called Panama Papers scandal has – via leaked documents – revealed years of money laundering, sanction dodging and tax evasion by rich and powerful clients of one of the world’s most secretive companies, a Panamanian law firm called Mossack
So now the dust has settled on the March budget, what impact – if any – will it have on small businesses? Hailed by George Osborne as his long term economic plan, he described it as “‘a budget that backs businesses’”. The full measures are outlined on the Gov UK
Do you sometimes wonder if banks are on the same planet as the rest of us?! Small business owners work every hour they can and yet when they need to do essential banking that requires a visit to a branch the hours are usually 9:00-17:00! Yet recent research by Funding
A decade ago, the global market place was dominated by larger corporations where bigger meant more and physical presence was needed to complete sales transactions across borders. Small to medium businesses found more success in local and domestic markets. However, global communication has changed all that. Video communication and other
The new National Living Wage (NLW) comes into effect April 1st, 2016 and is the minimum wage for over 25s which is now £7.20 per hour. 1.3m workers across the UK are set to benefit, but this also affects costs to small businesses. Although small businesses only employ 35% of
If you are a small business owner you will be only too aware of the impact of unpaid invoices. If a payment is late it adversely affects your cashflow and therefore small business funding. The worst case scenario is that a vulnerable business could go under if its creditors do
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