New research by a leading specialist lender of flexible working capital to SMEs has revealed certain problems in lending from mainstream banks. Nearly half (47%) of...
As the Co-operative Bank re-launches its ethical policy following a customer survey on the issues, it has extended the list of companies that the bank will...
The UK government has launched a consultation on how to enable people who offer peer-to-peer (P2P) loans to use tax free individual savings accounts (ISAs). Blue...
The Co-operative party is to lead calls for a push to treble the UK membership of credit unions, in order to battle exploitative payday lenders. The...
UK challenger bank Aldermore, which provides financial services to small and medium sized-businesses, has confirmed its intentions to launch an initial public offering (IPO) on the...
Some 90% of small and medium sized enterprises (SME) believe that challenger banks, such as Metro and Handelsbanken, offer better services than the ‘big four’ on...
Figures from the Bank of England have revealed that lending to small and medium sized enterprises (SME) through the government’s flagship Funding for Lending (FLS) scheme...
This week on Blue & Green Tomorrow, the fund management firm of philanthropist George Soros divested from Israeli-based SodaStream. We also discussed how a green energy...
Banks in the UK may soon be forced to help small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) find alternative sources of finance if they turn them down...
Santander has agreed to a referral relationship with Funding Circle, the first of its kind in the UK, suggesting that alternative methods of finance are gaining...
Crowdfunding is an increasingly popular form of financing that allows entrepreneurs to realise their ideas with the help of the crowd. Crowdfunder, the UK’s biggest crowdfunding...
A lack of competition in the payday loan market means customers are overpaying for their loans, the market regulator has claimed. Preliminary reports from the Competition...
Over the next decade the peer-to-peer industry will grow rapidly and reach $1 trillion (£0.59tn) globally, according to a report from US-based venture capital firm Foundation...
Charity Bank – the bank that exclusively serves the social economy – is experiencing an increased demand for loans, which it says suggests that the charitable...
The crisis at the Co-op Bank can be blamed on bad management and governance and a “culture of mediocrity”, according to a damning new report dissecting...