ThinCats has provided £250,000 of funding to London-based The Event Corporation (TEC). Founded by the former airline pilot turned entrepreneur, James Sweetnam, The Event Corporation is a UK-wide specialist event company providing activities and experiences for families, groups and corporates. These range from escape rooms and hot air balloon rides through to It’s A Knockout. […]
Henry Howard Finance Group has announced a change of name to Propel in support of the company’s strategic positioning as SME funder of choice and the name behind hundreds of UK equipment suppliers. ‘’Our Propel Promise, being small enough to care and deliver a brilliant personal service to our customers, and big enough to have […]
HMRC has issued an official warning to millions of self-employed people throughout the UK to remain extra vigilant in the run up to the Self-Assessment deadline on 31st January 2020. Statistics revealed by HMRC shows there has been almost 900,000 reports of suspicious contact over the last year – ranging from phone scams, social media […]
White Oak UK, one of the UK’s largest alternative providers of business finance, today announced it has broken through £1.5bn in lending on its own book. Carl D’Ammassa, CEO of White Oak UK, said: “This milestone comes at a time when SMEs are finding it increasingly challenging to secure business funding through more traditional methods, […]
Alternative Business Funding (ABF) and leading insurance broker, Jelf, has announced a new strategic collaboration, providing Jelf’s 250,000 commercial clients with greater access to a wide range of business funding products. The collaboration will see Jelf, who recently announced it will be rebranding as Marsh Commercial in January 2020, introduce its clients to the innovative […]
Reach Commercial Finance has just celebrated its fifth anniversary by meeting key commercial milestones, team expansion and planning for future growth. The bespoke brokerage division of Leonard Curtis, Reach is now a 12-strong UK-wide team that works across all 18 Group offices, within an organisation of over 200 professional services advisers. Headquartered in Manchester, […]
Despite an intense political climate and uncertain economic ground over the third quarter of this year, business confidence is stable. This is reflected in the latest SME Health Check Index, which shows a bounce back from the lowest ever recorded score in Q2. The report from Virgin Money UK, owner of Clydesdale and Yorkshire Bank […]
Brookes HC Recruitment has enjoyed a complete turnaround in fortunes thanks to Ultimate Finance providing an invoice finance facility and back office support. A financial issue with a client pushed the Birmingham-based healthcare recruitment firm to the brink but partnering with Ultimate Finance helped them turn things around. The specialist asset-based lender supported Brookes through […]
Tech giant Amazon’s current yearly revenue sits at $265.468bn, but how does the revenue of small businesses around the world compare to the tech giant’s fortune? Latona’s has analysed Eurostat and United States Census Bureau data to reveal how the revenue of small businesses compares to that of Amazon. Coming out on top is Switzerland, […]
ThinCats has today announced a move to an institution-only funding model for future loans. No new loans will be offered on the P2P Platform operated by Business Loan Network (BLN), one of the ThinCats Group companies. The P2P Platform has entered a run-off phase and has closed to new investors. Investors already using the P2P […]
