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21 March 2012
Chancellor George Osborne has confirmed £20bn will be made available to small and medium sized businesses through a government-backed scheme.
17 February 2012
The fragility of the financials sector has been well documented after a turbulent 2011. Top managers reveal whether the tides are about to turn.
13 February 2012
Top managers spy high yield opportunities as European Central Bank’s liquidity injections transform banks’ refinancing operations.
23 January 2012
Liz Evans, Asia-Pacific fund manager at Cavendish Asset Management, gives her views on what the Year of the Dragon has in store for equity investors.
13 September 2011
Adam Posen, the external member of the Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC), has upped his call for more quantitative easing (QE) to £100bn and proposed a ‘public bank’ for businesses struggling to find credit on the highstreet.
23 March 2011
Chancellor George Osborne has set out an array of business-friendly measures as he looks to the private sector to rejuvenate the nation’s economy.
08 February 2011
The government says it will increase the levy on bank profits to £2.5bn this year, to raise an extra £800m for the public purse.
12 November 2010
Despite the UK's domestic problems, earnings growth will continue to be healthy into 2011, writes Russell Investments' John Velis
01 November 2010
Lord Young has replaced Lord Sugar as the government’s enterprise tsar, tasked with cutting red tape for small businesses and encouraging new start-ups.
27 August 2010
Introduced in 2006 by the UK Government, following the extensive Bridging the Finance Gap consultation paper, ECFs are designed to tackle the equity gap by improving access to development capital
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