SME Business News

Experian, the global information services company, has released its latest mergers and acquisitions and equity capital market (ECM - flotation, rights issue and placement) data covering quarter Q1 2010.
The data reveals that while the number of transactions fell during Q1, the total value of them increased. By comparison, the total number and value of deals [...]

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Whilst some initiatives have been welcomed by businesses, albeit cautiously, we reflect on a Budget of missed opportunities, particularly when it comes to dealing - or rather not dealing - with the thorny issue of late payment.
The £250m boost for job programmes and action by the Government to set up a trade credit insurance scheme [...]

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Proposals by the government to help small businesses weather the financial crisis have been applauded by the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) who consider the measures to “be along the right lines.”
The package unveiled yesterday includes an investment of £350million towards staff training for small businesses and new rules to make training grants more easily [...]

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Gordon Brown has led the cavalry charge to help out Britain’s cash strapped banks, on behalf of the country and the tax payer of course, helping out high street banks Royal Bank Of Scotland, HBOS and LLoyds TSB to ease the financial crisis.
Brown seems to have taken notice of recent polls that showed the nation [...]

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The British Chamber Of Commerce (BCC) has warned that Britain is at ’serious risk’ of a full scale recession, with suggestions that the economy is now slowing down much more quickly than experts had previously predicted.
It is the backbone of UK businesses, the service sector that is showing the worst signs, with more firms now seeing [...]

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If you have ever considered expanding your business abroad, setting up offices or trading in the global market place, then you may well consider a visit to the upcoming London Foreign Investors Expo, that takes place on June 24 and 25 at London’s Excel Centre.
The FDI Expo 2008 is aimed at companies who are planning [...]

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A report from Davos states that leading economists say that a full blown and prolonged recession is inescapable for America. Predicting that the US economy will drag down those in Britain, Europe and much of Asia.
There is a general consensus that the Federal Reserves emergency interest rate cut is “too little, too late”, to stave [...]

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