By David Craik
Alternative finance is an increasingly important means for small companies to get ahead and there has been some encouraging news from three of the challenger banks this week.
The bank-backed Business Growth Fund (BGF) has breached the £500m of equity investment level three and a half years after its first investment in October 2011, with £250m of that committed in the last year.
By Barry James
Barry James argues that alternative finance is online from the ground up – with no legacy system, no legacy costs and no delays.
It seems to me the only bullet-proof profession is the banking sector. No matter what they do to our economy and the state of the country they seem to be Teflon.
By Jess McGreal
BA, BT, BP and many other famous British organisations come together to discuss the importance of their supply chains with the prime minister.
