Pragmatist

When Gordon Brown ( remember him ?) repeatedly proclaimed the " end of boom and bust " he was declaring his belief - along wi...

I've hugely enjoyed the documentary series tracing Dave Fishwick's valiant efforts to start a small community 'bank' in ...

Image from Parliament.uk This time he's made a submission   To the Banking Standards Commission . He's a poet and he didn...

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

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 ...

The latest Bank of England "Trends in Lending" report reveals that a further contraction in funding available to SMEs, combine...

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...

Over at Oikonomics , we are discussing how to balance the relative importance of what happens inside the bubble of the City with what happen...

After last month's gory detail on the UK's financial vulnerability , another barrage of charts from Zero Hedge illustrates why the ...

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...