Pragmatist

The Competition and Markets Authority has been investigating the state of competition for personal and small business bank customers, and...

I recently made the point that, instead of looking to the state for our personal wellbeing, the buck stops with each of us personally -...

Source: Bank of England As the headwind for UK banks stiffened today , we have news from MarketInvoice , the UK-based online invoice d...

Source: Bank of England The governments proposal to intervene directly in the corporate and small business funding markets shows how g...

Hat-tip to @JamesGreenThing for the link to the last Business Insider list of up-and-coming entrepreneurs . These lists are always much mo...

Barclays' withdrawal from the asset-based small business lending market is a real shot in the arm for peer-to-peer finance. The head o...

Banks will find it more costly and less profitable to offer short term unsecured personal and small business finance under Basel III rules, ...

The Late Payments Directive should produce a rush to implement reasonable supply chain finance arrangements for any private or public secto...

Interesting report today that "less than half SMEs have taken action [to address cashflow pressures] with 11pc hiring an in-house cred...

Gartner has recently warned banks that consumer peer-to-peer lending platforms are a force to be reckoned with. Any business with a UK cons...

This is the Last Straw. I've just seen "micro-enterprise" defined in a document called "2005/0245 (COD) LEX 797"...

The SCL's annual predictions are among the most visited pages of its web site, and it's time to get them in again. Here's mine...

References to “business” (and "SME's") are actually references to individual people, so business is highly personalised. Takin...