The United Kingdom's small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) sector has suffered from a dilemma familiar to most Western countries during the recession: an extreme lack of available funding. Bank lending to SMEs has all but dried up, despite substantial government initiatives to improve the matter. As a result, Bank of England Governor Mervyn King ...
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The British government has been launching an array of initiatives that, if successful, will boost business lending. Most of these programs, including a recent investment of some £30 million to alternative short term lenders, have one main goal in mind: breathing life into the small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) sector."A lack of access t...
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Small businesses in the United Kingdom are more confident than they've been in awhile, according to a recent study from the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB), and that's nothing but good news for the British economy. "Confidence is key to recovery and I am heartened to see that more small firms are planning to invest," said Andy Willox, the FSB'...
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By now, small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) owners are aware that United Kingdom government initiatives to spark lending have largely been a failure. But the news isn't all bad - as bank lending has dried up, companies are being forced to look into different sources for funding, which has sparked the growth of alternative short term lending. Ca...
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The Bank of England's Funding for Lending Scheme (FLS) has been widely criticized in recent months, with experts and analysts declaring that it failed to spark small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) growth.Determined not to let the FLS initiative fail after investing £80 billion in the project, the government is increasingly looking toward o...
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