UK

Trade finance companies Merchant Commercial Finance Limited (MCF) and Merchant Trade Finance Limited (MTF) have published their financial statements for the year to 28 February 2003.

The decision by specialist bank and finance group Broadcastle to focus on business-to-business work is paying off.

Chris Harlowe, formerly head of finance in Hammond’s Birmingham office, rejoins former Hammonds’ banking partner Andrew Knight at Speechlys. The two have worked closely together in the past and will continue to do so at Speechlys.

Lloyds TSB Asset Finance is offering a free copy of an independently researched report, An Overview of the UK Engineering Industry to 2007, to individuals or companies interested in the Engineering Sector.

According to the CBI’s research, almost a third of the companies questioned had relocated some of their business abroad and 43% reported they were under pressure to do so.

The 3.3 million small- and medium-sized businesses (SMEs) in England will find it easier to locate and understand the rules and regulations they need to know, and to access government services available to help them.

Centurion Risk Assessment Services Ltd, provides training courses that give clients the skills to survive dangerous situations at home and abroad.

Independent Growth Finance (IGF) has announced the further strengthening of its client management team with the recent appointments of Julie Kingston as credit control manager and Lisa Cannon as invoice discounting manager.

Leading business consultant John Griffiths has been appointed as East Midlands Regional Manager for InvoRed, an exclusive funding support programme that provides expert tuition to the region’s technology companies and entrepreneurs seeking investm

Business advisers at BDO Stoy Hayward claim that investors in unquoted UK small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are to forego tax reliefs available through Enterprise Investment Schemes (EIS) and Venture Capital Trusts (VCT) if share issue pr