Pragmatist

In an attempt to eradicate late payments to small businesses of approximately £41bn, the government has proposed that, from April 2016, ...

If you've been lumped with the job of writing your party's General Election Manifesto, here are 8 financial policies to simply dr...

The authorities tend to view people sharing content as 'piracy' , but fortunately when it comes to money the UK government thinks...

Great to see the MoveYourMoney campaign up and running - certainly a step up from the calls for futile mass withdrawals in 2010. But th...

Over on The Fine Print , I've set out both the initial summary and my full submission to the Red Tape Challenge and the BIS Taskforc...

I'm off to Number 10 today, to talk about red tape that's constraining disruptive business models in financial services. In the ...

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

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

Last week, The Receivables Exchange secured $17 million in funding from Bain Capital Ventures. I've been watching these guys since I...

Alternative trade finance for small businesses is beginning to snowball - at least in the US. Early this month, the Receivables Exchange ann...

Two recent funding initiatives not only fail to introduce openness and transparency in the credit markets, but also add complexity, shroud r...

Today the FT reports that "88 per cent [of traders surveyed] reported bigger companies not paying on time – a factor that 72 per cent...