The explosion in Recruitment Finance There has recently been a boom in the recruitment market and this can be put down to many reasons, such as corporation tax cuts, lower… read more →

We speak to Sophie at FundingKnight for an overview of peer-to-peer lending. Peer-to-peer lending – also known as P2P, crowdlending, and marketplace lending – is a way to access finance… read more →

Today we released our review of UK export and import figures, following the release of HM Revenue and Customs Regional Trade Statistics. From January – June 2015, UK trade exports… read more →

UK Export Data: 1996 – 2014 We reviewed 18 years of data from the Overseas Trade Statistics published by the HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) on UK international trade, in… read more →

New Guide for Business Funding Launched by Trade Finance Global Last week Trade Finance Global launched the ‘Business Finance Guide for SMEs’ which lists sources of finance and funding for… read more →

Conservatives win majority, pound strengthens Markets are up almost 2% on the back of the Conservatives winning the election. Traders have also bet over night on the strengthening of the… read more →

Bradford has the highest percentage of SMEs which are selling products or services overseas, according to a recent FedEx Exporter survey. Beating the usual suspects, (London, Leeds, Manchester and Southampton,)… read more →

By 2016, over half of the UK’s SMEs expect to be exporting their goods and services around the world; that’s an increase of one fifth over the next year. This… read more →

Low inflation rates breathe sigh of relief into markets and UK importers The UK’s annual inflation rate fell to zero in February which breathed a sigh of relief into markets.… read more →

The Budget 2015: Some of the things that were announced We wanted to highlight a few of the main points of interest for us here. However, we can’t say we… read more →