Last week at the Conservative’s annual party conference, Chancellor George Osborne confirmed the government’s support for developing UK exports. The self-imposed target – as a part of the UK turnaround strategy – is to have 100,000 more companies exporting, and a doubling of our exports to £1 trillion, by 2010. As always with these type […]
Business finance solutions – BoE improves Access to Finance
The Bank of England has changed the rules to encourage business lending. There was a key change in monetary policy last week announced by the Bank of England in their Bi-annual Financial Stability report. The main body of the report warned of on-going problems in the access of finance to the SME in the UK […]
New financial crisis NOW. Costs up – availability of funding down?
WARNING: There is a fresh financial crisis brewing! For once it is an increase that is the problem: bond yields. Why is it potentially bad for investors when the yield of a bond goes up? Because bonds act in reverse, with prices going down as yields go up. Government bonds are experiencing a big sell […]
14 need to know points on Cyprus and how it affects business finance
Could Cyprus be the trigger for yet another, potentially fatal Eurozone crisis? This is a problem that the EU have tried to ignore, but to no avail, it is now coming back to bite them, and in particular the Germans, in a big way! In a worst case scenario, this could lead to the exit […]
Turnaround strategy: How do your business problems compare to these?
Planning a turnaround strategy can feel like a lonely task. There are so many options to consider and a wide range of actions you need to take just to get your house in order before you can even start making any changes. We’ve talked about them in our eBook, Guide to Company Turnaround and Finance […]
The Eurozone – The biggest Turnaround of all
In the late 1950s the leading European nations started developing the concept of a strong Euro trading region to compensate for the waning global power of the area. Their ideal scenario for the Euro project was firstly to establish close trading partnerships between European nations unburdened by borders and tariffs, followed by a common currency […]