Directors and officers (D&Os) have been operating in a highly complex environment throughout 2024, and further volatility can be expected during 2025. Executives face multiple exposures in an increasingly interconnected business world, confronted with risks arising from business insolvencies, geopolitical upheaval, climate change, digital transformation, economic uncertainty, shifts in public opinion, and an evolving legal […]
More than 8 in 10 (81%) UK small businesses are prioritising new initiatives to boost their overall growth prospects for 2025. Increasing new business sales (43%) and reducing fixed costs (24%) are priority areas business owners want to focus on – but there’s also evidence the recent changes to employers’ National Insurance could significantly impact […]
Start Up Loans today announces that it has provided female founders in the South East with £50m in loans since the programme’s inception in 2012. In the regions outside of London, the South East has received the third highest volume of female funding in England, demonstrating it’s a key region for female entrepreneurship. Loans to […]
Global economies are either on track to repeat or are already repeating many of the tried, tested and failed lessons and policies from recent history in 2025 – including tariffs, trade wars and isolationism. There is a real sense that global economies now need to move on, in the face of mounting market and political […]
Matt Britzman, senior equity analyst, Hargreaves Lansdown: “The FTSE 100 is set to open lower this morning after slipping 0.3% yesterday, breaking a five-day rally as losses in healthcare and mining dragged the index lower. Gains in financials and airlines provided some support, but it wasn’t enough to offset the broader pressure. The rest of Europe is […]
According to Savills latest European Logistics Outlook, investment volumes to date have totalled €26.1bn, a 14% increase compared to the same period in 2023. This signifies the second highest level of investment in European logistics assets since the market reached a trough in Q1 last year. Savills notes that investment in the third quarter of […]
Perwyn, a leading European private equity investor focused on building and transforming mid-market businesses, is delighted to announce that the accounting firms Cabinet Jacques Rozenbaum (based in Paris) and Audit Conseils (based in Alsace) have joined Keobiz and Kerogo Services to create Kerogo Finance. Kerogo Finance is a leading accountancy group with diversified brands and […]
The Social Market Foundation – a cross-party think tank – has warned government to fix the issues preventing small businesses from fully embracing apprenticeships, particularly in skilled trades. The SMF’s report – sponsored by Reed in Partnership, with support from TrustMark – examined the challenges holding small and medium skilled trade firms back from offering […]
Today, The British Retail Consortium (BRC) has published its BRC Payments Survey, showing a rise in the use of cash for the second year in a row to 19.9% of transactions in 2023 (from 18.8% in 2022). Debit cards remained far and away the most common method of payment, increasing to 62.0% of transactions (66.7% […]
Buy-to-let lender Landbay has announced another round of rate reductions, with rates cut by up to 0.20% across its standard two-year and five-year fixed rate products. The full 0.20% reduction has been seen on their standard two-year fixed rate products available up to 75% loan-to-value (LTV), with rates now starting from 3.59%. This also includes […]
