Bank lending to small businesses falls £27bn in three years
Outstanding high street bank lending to small and medium-sized businesses across Great Britain fell by £26.8bn, or 30 per cent, in three years to stand...
Refugee entrepreneurs could add £2bn to UK economy, Cedar Review finds
Refugee entrepreneurs could boost the UK economy by an estimated £2bn if barriers to entrepreneurship were tackled and more tailored support made available, according to...
Xapien raises $56m from Spectrum Equity to build out US presence
Xapien, the AI due diligence platform, has raised $56m in a growth investment round led by Spectrum Equity, the company announced on Friday. Existing investor...
Britain exports lawyers, bankers and degrees. Why not doctors?
Now try the same sentence with a different noun. The UK will grow its healthcare exports to £40 billion a year by 2030. Something in the...
OriginalVoices raises £1m pre-seed round led by Iona Star
OriginalVoices, a platform that supplies real-time human opinion data to AI tools and agents, has closed a £1m pre-seed round led by venture capital firm...
State pension set to rise by £488 to £13,036.40 next April
The full new state pension is likely to rise by £488 next April to £13,036.40 a year, after figures published today by the Office for...