Intelligent Environmental Services (iES), a leading North West environmental consultant, has secured a £500k invoice finance facility from Advantedge as it looks to build on its recent merger with Winsulate. Based in Bolton, iES provides expert hazardous material consultancy to a broad range of commercial clients, specialising in asbestos, contaminated land and wider environmental contaminants […]
A new online Self-screening Bot has been launched to help businesses manage visitors’ and customers’ safety more easily, before any face-to-face activity takes place. Launched by leading outsourced communication provider Moneypenny, the new tool is available to companies across a range of sectors including hair and beauty, leisure and hospitality. The bot has three core […]
Post-Brexit, Amazon is booting sellers using UK warehouses out of its European services. But ParcelHero warns that Amazon could stop sending UK sellers’ products to EU centres early to avoid a red tape returns nightmare after Christmas. This week, Amazon has officially acknowledged that all its sellers who only use a UK Fulfilment Centre will […]
Metro Bank today announces that it has enabled Direct Debit origination for its business customers via its partnership with Bottomline Technologies. The bank’s announcement comes after it revealed in February that it had become a direct participant of Bacs, the Pay.UK-operated payment system. Metro Bank business customers will be able to create, automatically collect and […]
New research from Santander UK reveals that a third (32%) of the UK’s SMEs who implemented changes plan to make their Covid-19 adaptations a permanent feature post-pandemic as almost half found they not only survived, but actually grew their customer base during Covid-19. The study – which polled 2,050 senior leaders in UK SMEs – […]
Buy-to-let landlords in England should be assessing the energy efficiency works that their properties require in advance of the opening of online applications for the Green Homes Grant in September, say leading tax and advisory firm, Blick Rothenberg. Heather Powell, property partner at the firm said: “ The applications for the grant will open in […]
‘Product-less’ lender, Octane Capital, today announced it has radically streamlined its application process for brokers and borrowers alike — in some cases cutting the length of loan applications in half. It takes borrowers just five minutes to apply for a loan through Octane’s powerful new mobile app, which takes them through electronic ID verification, KYC […]
Arbuthnot Commercial Asset Based Lending (ABL) has supported window and door manufacturer, GJB Group with a £1.2m Coronavirus Business Interruption Loan (CBILS). This is in addition to the £5m all-asset funding transaction that was completed for the Group in November 2019. Arbuthnot Commercial ABL was able to deliver the CBILS loan in just three days […]
The proportion of UK small businesses predicting growth has almost doubled in just three months – from 14% to 27% – giving one of the first tangible indications that the government’s easing of lockdown is having a positive impact on a key area of the UK economy. The quarterly tracking study by Hitachi Capital Business […]
The second edition of the NatWest UK Small Business PMI® report, a new monthly index designed to monitor the performance of private sector enterprises with 1-49 employees, pointed to a sustained rebound in business conditions in June from the record low seen during April, driven by the phased restart of the UK economy as lockdown […]
