Bitcoins have become the new sensation of the trading world. It has become the top digital asset in the world. However, it is still far from changing the future. It sure has left quite an impact on the financial market. People are now becoming aware that there is a form of currency that is decentralized […]
Cryptocurrencies are not a new thing in the market. They have been here since the last decade. And you must have seen several introductions comparing the Cryptocurrencies with traditional fiat currencies. Despite all the benefits Cryptocurrency has to offer over the traditional fiat currencies, there are still people out there who do not believe in […]
Scammers have taken advantage of their reputation as social engineers to cash in on lockdown, new data from Barclays reveals. Scams are up 66% in the first 6 months of this year, with the trend showing no signs of slowing as recent figures indicate volumes for July are up a further 5% on June data. […]
Four in five (80%) UK SMEs are confident they will recover from Covid, according to research from digital bank Starling and the Great British Entrepreneur Awards (GBEA). The survey of more than 300 UK SMEs across a range of sectors also found that two thirds (68%) of the business owners questioned believe they will return […]
Responding to the latest ONS Retail Sales Index figures, which showed a 2.7% increase in overall sales (retail sales excluding fuel: J3L2), Helen Dickinson, chief executive of the British Retail Consortium, said: “The latest ONS sales results mask a crisis under way in some parts of the retail industry. While food and online have shown […]
July data from the third edition of the NatWest UK Small Business PMI® report showed a pick-up in activity at UK small businesses, in a further sign of operating conditions gradually improving following the lifting of lockdown measures. However, the pace of recovery remained uneven and lagged behind that seen among larger companies. The new […]
More than half of brokers have seen an increase in buy-to-let purchase business in recent weeks, with more than 30% seeing an increase in individual purchases and nearly 27% seeing an increase in limited company purchases. This is according to research amongst users of the online broker forum, cherryplc.co.uk, carried out in association with Click2Check. […]
Eight in 10 chief financial officers fear their businesses are ill-prepared to handle a decrease in sales volumes as the full impact of Covid-19 begins to be felt on the UK economy, according to research from Euler Hermes. The findings come from its The Finance Leader of Tomorrow survey, which profiles European finance directors’ sentiments […]
ThinCats, the leading alternative lender to mid-sized UK SMEs is calling on the Chancellor, Rishi Sunak MP, to extend the current deadlines for the Coronavirus Business Interruption Loan Scheme (CBILS) and the Coronavirus Large Business Interruption Loan Scheme (CLBILS). A recent clarification from the British Business Bank outlined that the current deadline for CBILS applications […]
Bitcoins have become the new sensation of the trading world. It has become the top digital asset in the world. However, it is still far from changing the future. It sure has left quite an impact on the financial market. People are now becoming aware that there is a form of currency that is decentralized […]