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SME lending remains subdued despite annual growth
- September 2024
Overall gross lending to UK small and medium-sized businesses (SMEs) showed a year-on-year increase during the second quarter of the year, but remained subdued compared to pre-pandemic levels. According to data from UK Finance’s Business Finance Review 2024 Q2, overall gross lending to UK SMEs ...
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FOR SELLERS Growing trend for vendor due diligenceAs trade buyers return in greater numbers to the M&A market, there is increasing competition to buy ...
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INDUSTRY INSIGHTS Poor Performance of family run businesses
Five years of research by the Centre for Economics Performance at the London School of Economics, an...
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SECTOR GUIDES Selling a magazine title
Appealing magazine titles do not come onto the market for genuine reasons that often. But this is wh...
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FOR BUYERS Preparing a Business for Sale
The New Year is traditionally a time when many of us take stock of our lives and make plans for the ...
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FOR BUYERS Will 2007 be another record year?
2006 has been a record year for global M&A, and the latest reports from financial institutions show ...
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INDUSTRY INSIGHTS TUPE Regulations 2006
When buying all or part of a business, it is important to be aware that you will inherit not only it...
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DISTRESSED BUSINESSES Quick guide to the forms of corporate insolvencyThere is seldom a day goes past when there is not a story in the business section of every major UK ...