Brazilian meeting shines light on potential of fintech future
JOSÉ Lino Sepulcri, president of the Espírito Santo Trade Federation, and Gutman Uchôa de Mendonça, the regional director of the association of Brazilian banks...
Fintech funding key to keeping SMEs strong after end of loans
ONE OF Europe’s largest business lenders says the fintech industry must be strengthened to support SMEs after the Bounce Back Loan scheme closes at...
A gender seeking lenders: Go, girls!
IT MAY once have been a man’s world, but the Department for Business and Trade and the Council for Investing in Female Entrepreneurs aim...
UK SMEs say costs stymie sustainability ambitions
BRITAIN’S five million SMEs claim the increased cost of doing business is making it harder to go green.
Research carried out by Oxford Economics found...
Sessions Market cooks up an incentive to beat chef shortage
SESSIONS Market has launched a chef incentive and recruitment scheme to boost an industry hard-hit by the Covid pandemic.
Founder Dan Warne, previously MD at...
Want to speed-up your start-up? An accelerator may be the answer
Successful participants in this scheme could evolve into $100m-evaluated companies, under the guidance of experts.
THE Holt Accelerator team is on the search for the...
IC… oh, dear! Initial coin offerings can, and do, go wrong,...
Do some Google research on ICOs and you will immediately hear the faint, but unmistakable, clang of warning bells. Bells that almost – but...
SMEs ‘turn to crowdfunding to fuel growth out of the pandemic’
SMEs ARE more likely to choose non-traditional ways of accessing capital, including crowdfunding (32 percent) or offering investment opportunities to employees (30 percent), than...
I belong tae Glasgae… as do top honours for SME growth
GLASGOW has emerged as the best city to work for a small business in Britain.
Research by small business lender iwoca ranked areas using ONS...
Bid to ease virus impacts on cash flow ‘flawed’ — CEO
THE UK government’s proposed Coronavirus Business Interruption Loan Scheme (CIBLS) is coming in for some criticism.
HM Treasury and the Bank of England last week...
