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Chief executive of Potential Finance Ltd reveals expectations for company

Laurence Rutter, chief executive at Potential Finance Ltd, today talked to BCR about the plans for Potential in 2003 –…


S&P cuts Gerling’s ratings to 'BB+' and keeps them on…

Standard & Poor's Ratings Services said today it lowered to 'BB+' from 'BBB' its long-term counter party credit and insurer…


Government statistics show business survival rates improving

The latest analysis from the DTI's Small Business Service shows that 91.4 per cent of VAT-registered businesses are still trading…


Business recovery association (R3) disagrees with DTI business failures analysis

The Association of Business Recovery Specialists, R3, the body representing business rescue professionals, today contradicted the government’s latest figures for…


FDA’s latest statistics show decrease in export factoring

The FDA’s latest quarterly statistics show a decrease of 2% in export factoring volume and a decrease of 1% in…


Factoring and leasing company to raise Ђ241.8m through asset-backed floating…

Commercio e Finanza Leasing e Factoring SpA (CFLF), which is headquartered in Naples, is raising Ђ241.8 m through the planned…


Sparkling performance from major factoring and leasing company as sharply…

The net profit of Estonia's Uhisliising (Uhispank Leasing) group was 99 million kroons (Ђ6.33 m) last year against 58.4 million…


Survey reveals factoring leads credit insurance as the most popular…

More than half of the companies within the apparel and home goods industries have failed to diversify their customer base…


‘Flawed economic policies’ that are damaging SMEs and big business…

According to Samoobrona (Self-defence) leader Andrzej Lepper, farmers’ protests have been caused by improper financial policy. "SMEs are going bankrupt,…


SMEs’ fears over economy grow although staff cutbacks will be…

Small and medium-sized companies are increasingly pessimistic about the future of the domestic economy but still have no plans to…


Over 30,000 SMEs turn to invoice finance, as factoring becomes…

The FDA has released its 2002 Annual Figures on the factoring and invoice discounting industry showing that the UK market…


The Financial Times advises businesses on managing down the cost…

If working capital were to be renamed "waiting capital", perhaps a revolution of comprehension and corrective action might follow. Instead,…


Leading Latvian factor stays on top

The leasing and factoring portfolio of Latvia's Hanza Lizings company gained 31 percent last year to 167 million lats, holding…


Scottish commercial banks have strong reasons for optimism

The Scottish banking scene continues to be highly competitive. In recent years, a significant number of overseas banks in particular…


EIB plans to expand long-term funding for SMEs

The European Investment Bank (EIB) plans to develop partnerships with domestic and foreign banks in Greece with a view to…


Myanmar mired in worst financial crisis

Riot police are out in force in Yangon as the country's worst financial crisis continues to spiral out of control…


Credit insurer and factor join forces to open foreign markets…

Small business exporters have a new opportunity to purchase a foreign receivables factoring service from Export Bank (a service of…


Hermes turns up heat on retailer

Hermes Kreditversicherungs-AG, the German insurance group, has dealt a blow to Spar, the retail group, by increasing the deductible contribution…


Potential Finance move into the black

Potential Finance Ltd’s financial report for the year ended 30 September 2003 shows that the company is beginning to make…


UK banks favour rescue and rehabilitation over insolvency

According to PricewaterhouseCoopers, mid-market companies have been particularly hit by the rise in company insolvencies in 2002. As a raft…


SSIs still starved of credit

Concerned with the inadequate availability of credit to the small-scale sector, Minister of Small Scale Industries, C P Thakur, said…


GERLING NCM join trade mission to Japan

Sixteen Welsh companies and organisations are in Japan on a weeklong trade mission. visiting Tokyo and Osaka. Major names taking…


Fortis Commercial Finance appoints new head of sales for the…

Fortis Commercial Finance Limited (FCF) - part of the international Fortis Group, and a leading invoice finance provider across the…


Industrial Finance Corporation of Thailand plans new lending to SMEs

The Industrial Finance Corporation of Thailand (IFCT) is likely to become a commercial bank next year, focusing on long-term industrial…


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