Pragmatist

As mentioned briefly before , UK banks have been so hopeless in referring businesses they can't finance to alternative lenders that t...

You've got to wonder about priorities at the Department of Culture Media and Sport . They allowed UK bookmakers to harvest £46 billio...

There has been plenty of research into the alleged effect of TV sex and violence on human behaviour, but how does TV adversely impact our...

In November 2007 it seemed clear that facilitators like Google and Amazon would capitalise on their alignment with their customers'...

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

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...

It's SME Week in the EU, and finance is very much on the agenda, with all sorts of chat about micro-finance and other funding . But the...

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

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"...