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Amazon is revolutionising small business lending. The Internet giant has already invested £3bn in its own small-scale marketplace traders. It is thought to be considering extending its small [...]

Getting a contractor mortgage can be tricky as you have to demonstrate a regular income and show how you’ll sustain mortgage repayments in future (even if interest rates rise). But, by [...]

Hampshire Trust Bank’s recently released ‘SME Growth Watch 2016’. This report indicates an average 6% decrease in small business lending between Q4 2014 and Q4 2015. This has led many small [...]

Small business owners have had a tough time securing business finance since the banking downturn started to bite in 2008. However, the latest figures suggest that Government measures, designed to [...]

Since 2007, the headlines have been dominated by news about the economic downturn and the very slow road to recovery. Even now that the worst has passed, the economy has been growing by a mere [...]

Since the financial downturn first began to take hold in 2008, SMEs have found it harder to secure financing for their own recovery and growth plans. At that time, banks resisted Government [...]

Back in 2012, the business secretary Vince Cable announced the creation of a new “British Business Bank”. The new bank would use £1 billion worth of government resources to secure additional [...]