As many of you know, funding for small businesses has become more difficult than ever, so the advantages of using a broker to help are now recognised at the highest possible level. The NACFB is engaged with Government and HM Treasury in sourcing high street lending...
Banks are under pressure to increase lending to business owners, but many feel that the system is still hampered by traditional procedures that can be detrimental to the final outcome. It’s evident that, by approaching an independent finance house like Johnson Reed,...
For a long time the country has been lauding the praises of the ‘baby boomer’ generation of the post-war years. But now it seems that the baby boomers have suddenly turned into pensioner bloomers. The government can’t afford their upkeep, and nobody wants to look...
HM Revenue & Customs are coming to get you. But only, it seems, if you work in certain businesses. If you happen to be a market stall holder in London, a taxi firm in the East Midlands, a fast food takeaway outlet in Scotland or a landlord in Yorkshire, you’d...
The government has given a shot in the arm to the leasing business with its announcement of the National Loan Guarantee Scheme (NLGS), which will see up to £20 billion of guarantees on unsecured loans by Barclays, Royal Bank of Scotland, Lloyds, Santander and others....
Could it be at long, long last, our fragile economy is set to turn the very slow and tortuous corner that we’ve all been experiencing over the last few years? Perhaps we are now on course for a brighter future. In amongst the detail of Chancellor George Osborne’s...
