Responding to the Queen’s speech, Helen Dickinson OBE, chief executive of the British Retail Consortium, said: “The Queen’s speech and the new parliamentary session are an opportunity for the government to reinvigorate its domestic agenda. We want to work with government to implement policies that support businesses, protect retail workers from growing levels of violence […]
Overall business confidence rose for the fourth consecutive month in December, according to the latest findings from the Lloyds Bank Commercial Banking Business Barometer. The survey, taken before the general election results was known, shows the one point increase took business confidence to 10%, driven by an improvement in businesses optimism about their own trading […]
Retailers take out merchant cash advances in November and December ahead of Christmas rush and New Year sales Surge in demand expected in January as independent retailers look to manage cashflow With Christmas just around the corner, 365 Business Finance has revealed a 174% year-on-year increase in merchant cash advances for retailers during the months […]
A UK-based SME credit and short-term finance provider, Affiniture, established in 2011, supports over 6,000 SME accounts with over £125m of spend per annum. Shawbrook Bank has recently supported Affiniture Cards Limited (trading as Diners Club International) with the refinancing of their existing funding arrangements through the provision of a committed senior funding line. The […]
Alternative SME credit specialist Caple has helped Working Voices, a specialist business communications training firm, with access to unsecured lending. Working Voices will use the long-term unsecured loan to implement its strategic growth plans. The business plans to increase its revenue streams by developing and marketing new products and services and continuing to expand globally. […]
Responding to the latest ONS retail job figures for Q3 2019, Kyle Monk, head of retail insights and analytics at the British Retail Consortium, said: “Overall, the UK has added 576,000 new jobs compared to a year ago (using 4Q averages). There are 36,000 fewer jobs in retail than there were a year ago, making […]
Europe’s private equity industry has shifted into buying mode, deploying large pools of capital while delaying exits, according to provisional full-year data from the CMBOR at Imperial College Business School, sponsored by Equistone Partners Europe and Investec Corporate and Investment Banking. The cumulative value of European buyouts passed €100bn for a joint-record third consecutive year […]
Aldermore’s new Buy-to-Let City Tracker, analysing 25 cities across the UK to understand the best places for landlords to invest in, has found Oxford, closely followed by Manchester, to be the best. The Tracker was determined by analysing and assessing five key indicators that impact desirability; average total rent, the best short-term returns through yield, […]
Ultimate Finance has partnered with Nivo to invest in facial recognition technology to make it quicker and easier to apply for funding. Nivo gives Ultimate Finance access to a range of leading technology services so they can streamline customer engagement through instant messaging. Features such as biometric ID verification and file sharing remove the traditional […]
Pulse Cashflow Finance have today announced a summary of their year-end results and they reveal continued growth as the firm gets set to celebrate a decade in business. In the year ending September 2019, their client portfolio showed strong growth year on year with a 24% increase in the number of finance facilities offered to […]
