Cash flow, lending, tax and the money that keeps UK businesses moving.
<p>As the Chancellor prepares to deliver the Autumn Budget, CIMA's Building a Better Business report reveals a significant gap between the challenges policymakers focus on and those businesses actually face - and sets out what needs to change</p> <p>
<p>Glenn Collins, Head of Technical and Strategic Engagement at ACCA UK, argues that SME confidence is recovering from a low base, and sets out three tests the Chancellor's Budget must pass to protect that fragile momentum</p> <p>
<p>As compulsory liquidations rise 25% year on year, Purbeck is calling on the Chancellor to back the SME directors who guarantee their own business loans</p> <p>
<p>Rupert Lee-Browne, CEO of Caxton, argues that the Commercial Payments Bill's 60-day payment rule is welcome news for SMEs - but only if they use the breathing space to overhaul their own payment processes first</p> <p>
Long-form conversations with the founders, CEOs and operators shaping British business.
Born in Catania, he left Italy at 26. Now 38, he runs a group of companies spanning technology and luxury, including Altinium. He explains an industry where Europe spends up to £20 million a day on private flights, and the requests no quote sheet can anticipate.
For SMEs, fleet management has got a lot more complex, and is no longer just about fuel cards and mileage. Shell's UK General Manager of Mobility and Convenience, Janine Albrecht Webb, explains how visibility, simplicity and flexibility are becoming central to managing mixed fleets…
Philipp Buschmann, co-founder and CEO of AAZZUR, explains why he walked away from building a neobank, how embedded finance is reshaping financial services, and why AI will make the next wave of change harder to ignore
Technology should make an SME simpler to run, not more complicated. Experts from ClearCourse explain how businesses can avoid tool sprawl, choose connected systems and ensure technology genuinely supports people and growth
Leadership, talent and the human side of running a growing company.
<p>Recruitment fees are only the start. For a growing business, an empty role and a new hire's learning curve can make staff turnover an expensive habit</p> <p>
<p>Charlie Mullins OBE, founder of Pimlico Plumbers, argues that decades of prioritising university over apprenticeships have left businesses short of skilled people and young people short of practical opportunity - and that the solution is straightforward if ministers are willing to act on it</p> <p>
<p>Exceptional people build great businesses. Turning their expertise into lasting capability builds real value</p> <p>
<p>Better to look at the whole picture and see everyone as customers</p> <p>
<p>Seven years after its US stock market debut, Freedom Holding Corp has grown from a single-market brokerage into an international group spanning banking, insurance, telecommunications and consumer technology</p> <p>
<p>Millions of the small businesses Britain relies on every day are operating with less visibility, support and recognition than they deserve. Kate Hayward, UK Managing Director of Xero, argues that changing that starts with a conversation</p> <p>
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