Trade body’s plea over conflicting SME loan legislation
THE NATIONAL Association of Commercial Finance Brokers is calling on the government to intervene over SME lending policies.
In an open letter to City Minister...
Small business? Big assistance, at no charge
SMALL Business Britain has launched a support programme, in partnership with Lloyds Banking Group, to help small businesses survive a challenging economic period.
With SMEs facing...
Top stock searches: Google and ye shall find
Controversial oil giants Shell and BP top the search list
SHELL is Europe’s most Googled stock, while BP holds top spot for Britain.
The oil giants...
Online shift has banks shutting shop
HIGH street bank branches are shutting as people turn to online services and money management.
Which? magazine reports that 5,355 bank and building society branches...
Three PMs, four chancellors, and a partridge in a pear tree…?
ONLY a quarter of UK retail investors have faith in Tory economic policy, with the majority concerned for the future.
Research commissioned by online forex...
Bitcoin vs Britcoin: Are CBDCs the future?
GOOGLE searches for central bank digital currencies (CBDC) in the UK and US have exploded.
Analysis by cryptocurrency betting review website Cryptobetting.org showed that CBDC...
UK’s ATMs disappear as digital cash edges closer
FINTECH firm Intergiro has conducted a study to find which UK regions have seen the biggest decline in cash machines since 2018.
Using data from...
Buy, sell, fire: Musk hits the ground flailing
ELON Musk has sold another 19.5 million Tesla shares.
The sell-off comes just days after his $44bn Twitter takeover. Tesla's share price has fallen by more...
Does Nanny know what’s best for us…?
By CHARLES WHITE-THOMSON
“NANNY finance” — excessive quantitative easing and rate-cutting by central banks — has dominated the world for many years. This overly soft...
Russian banker gives up citizenship over war
BILLIONAIRE Russian banker Oleg Tinkov has renounced his Russian citizenship in protest at the war in Ukraine.
Tinkov, the founder of online Tinkoff Bank, said...
