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British Business Bank’s 2024/25 Report Shows Growing Specialty Lender Market Share
The British Business Bank’s Small Business Finance Markets 2024/25 report, published this week, finds that challenger and ...
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UK challenger banks’ SME lending returns to growth
Gross lending to SMEs from non-big five banks rose 8 per cent year on year to £37.3bn in 2024, according to a report by the ...
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Labour MPs and peers urge banks to view UK defence investments as ethical
“There can be no more ethical investment than giving the Ukrainian people every ounce of support that can be mustered by ...
Small business investment in the West Midlands remains resilient reflecting national trends – British Business Bank reports
Use of external finance by smaller businesses in the West Midlands declined in the first half of 2024, but remained more ...
Class UK defence investments as ethical, Labour MPs urge banks
More than 100 Labour MPs and peers have urged British banks and fund managers to stop viewing all defence investments as “unethical”, as they seek to boost the UK’s domestic arms industry. Their open ...