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UK and New Zealand goods and services trade reached a record £4bn in 2025, as businesses continued to make strong use of preferential tariffs under the two countries’ free trade agreement. A joint statement from the UK and New Zealand...
#digital trade#exporters#Free Trade Agreement
The UK’s trade deficit widened sharply in the three months to April 2026, as rising imports outpaced export growth and…
#exports#imports#supply chains
UK SMEs trading internationally are warning of severe financial pressure as disruption linked to the Iran war drives up logistics,…
#FX risk#Iran war#sme finance
Lex Greensill has been banned from acting as a company director in the UK for nine years, bringing a major…
#Credit Suisse#Greensill#Katerra
ETR Digital and Investec Capital Solutions have completed their first Working Capital Notes transaction, releasing earlier liquidity for a UK…
#digital trade#ETR digital#food supply chains
Nifina’s founders are positioning the company around a new generation of working capital finance infrastructure, as corporates and financial institutions…
#AI#banking technology#Nifina
Specialty re/insurer Convex Group has received approval to launch a Lloyd’s syndicate with a portfolio that includes political risk and…
#Convex#CPRI#Lloyds
ART Business Loans has reported further growth in lending to small and medium-sized businesses across the West Midlands and adjoining…
#alternative finance#ART Business Loans#British Business Bank
A London court has rejected BB Energy’s attempt to block the sale of three South Sudanese oil cargoes worth around…
#BB Energy#commodity finance#creditor risk
The Financial Conduct Authority has warned financial institutions that sanctions compliance remains an area of significant supervisory focus, as geopolitical…
#compliance#FCA#risk management
Lloyds Banking Group has committed up to £2bn of trade finance support for UK exporters as businesses face an increasingly…
#export finance#Lloyds#smes
NatWest has partnered with Validis to automate the collection and standardisation of borrower financial data within its invoice finance business.…
#invoice finance#NatWest#onboarding
UK bank lending to businesses has fallen to its lowest level in nearly three decades, intensifying concerns over whether traditional…
#alternative finance#embedded finance#fintech