It’s that time of year again. For some, it may feel like it’s been creeping up for a while, but for others, Christmas can really feel as though it’s come out of the blue.
Around 36% of small businesses have been victims of data breaches in 2019, according to a recent Kaspersky survey. While data breaches threaten small companies with painful consequences, the survey revealed that security measures taken by them to prevent such incidents are often insufficient.
With competition at its highest, start-ups need to think of new ways to engage with partners, investors, prospects and the media to make the message stick.
Today’s CEOs face a number of headaches. How to find the right people, how to manage their costs, and, importantly, how to deliver sustainable growth. Torn between debt, which they cannot raise without tangible assets and often dauting personal guarantees, and diluting their equity, which they are reluctant to do simply to raise cash, many […]
We won’t know if the Brexit deal is good, bad or ugly for another 10 years. If you’re serious about creating, building and safeguarding wealth in the next decade, you need to consider global opportunities. deVere Group’s Nigel Green is speaking out as Downing Street confirmed that a “draft agreement” had been reached in Brussels […]
More than half (52%) of UK SMEs are finding it difficult to access funding from banks, while 28% believed the problem has worsened over the past five years according to a survey of business owners and senior decision-makers across a wide range of small to medium-sized organisations. The survey commissioned by FinTech provider Fraedom, found […]
New analysis from data selected from 250,000 SMEs has found that on average fewer than half of UK small businesses (49.9%) were operating in positive cash flow in 2017. The indicator showed that over the past year, 30-day invoices were on average paid after 40 days nationwide, but the UK’s biggest businesses (FTSE 350) delayed payment […]
UK SMEs plan to achieve high growth targets this year and are intent on leveraging what they see as unique advantage of agility and flexibility to help them adapt to changing customer demands, according to the latest research from American Express. In a global study of senior executives of 3,000 SMEs, American Express and Oxford […]
With the Brexit divorce bill weighing in at just under a £40bn hit to the UK economy, private sector productivity - supported by the sentiments of Britain’s wealthiest - is of the utmost importance. Following the agreement of Brexit terms between the EU and UK last month, the Enterprise Investment Scheme Association has commissioned new research revealing resoundingly […]
UK company formation experts, Turnerlittle.com have investigated the levels of SME borrowing, analysing the latest data from UK Finance to assess how the UK's debt crisis has affected businesses. The data revealed that unlike consumer borrowing, SME borrowing in 2017 remained stable. But when the amount borrowed was compared with the number of active businesses […]
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