Edition 317 – Summer 2024
‘Tis the season of myths
By Business Money group editor Robert Lefroy
Enablers: Let’s get visible
Robert Lefroy examines the results of the 2024 business finance market report from Salience Search Marketing, with commentary from managing director Brett Janes
Looking through the roundwindow
John Brehcist ruminates on 15 years of running his own consultancy business
Soft landing
Chief economist John Lorié discusses the main findings of the latest biannual Atradius Economic Outlook report
Clobber everyone
Chris Lee reflects
Building opportunities
Industry insight from Adam Tyler
Still on the growth path
Magdalena Ciechomska-Barczak, chair of the Economics and Statistics Committee at the EU Federation for the Factoring and Commercial Finance Industry, presents the Europe-wide factoring turnover figures collected by the group for 2023
Skills shortage threatens digital leap for financial services sector
By Chris Livesey, CEO of Autorek
Obituary: Keith Berman
By Robert Lefroy
As one chapter closes…
Charlotte Mathieson, compliance manager at the NACFB, on the Consumer Duty’s scope and closed-book products
Data of the dead
Partner Nils Kuhlwein presents the main findings from a new report by management consultancy Kearney, showing that zombie companies are still on the rise globally
A trend to topple the card giants?
By Azimkhon Askarov, co-partner of CONCRYT
Corporate restructurings set to accelerate during next two years
Managing director Michelle Dreyer sums up the main findings of a global study published by business solutions firm CSC
Leslie Bland
Group editor Robert Lefroy pens his tribute
Counsel’s Opinion: Shares and shares unalike
Business Money talks to Professor Mark Watson-Gandy OBE about the Court of Appeal’s decision in Bland v Keegan
Closing Thoughts: SMEs targeted as HMRC cracks down on minimum wage
By Kyle Newton of advisory group Azets UK
