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The financing channel looks at the different small business funding options available to start-up companies and established SME businesses looking to grow. Read a wealth of guides and tips to help manage your accounts and cash flow better, views on the future of business banking and where to source alternative finance.

Banks may call in debt collectors to recoup unpaid Bounce Back Loans

High street banks want to outsource collection of Bounce Back Loans gone bad to debt collection agencies

Business Loans

Accounting

Redtape simplified for small business seeking CVA protection

New standard form offers SMEs same protection from creditors as big companies who trigger Company Voluntary Arrangements (CVAs)

News

MPs to fight Sunak over move to hike national insurance for self-employed

Tory backbenchers decry plans to hike self-employed national insurance from 9 per cent to 12 per cent

Government Grants

Rishi Sunak plans grants for small businesses hit by hard lockdown

Pubs and restaurants would be forced to shut completely at highest level of mooted three-tier system

Government Grants

How the local furlough scheme grant will work for your small business

Government will pay 100% of wages for small businesses forced to shut in hard lockdown.

Small Business Banking

HSBC will not accept any more Bounce Back Loan applications

Bank says it needs to process existing Bounce Back Loan applications and clear backlog before November 30 cut-off

News

Rishi Sunak to extend government coronavirus business support

Chancellor Rishi Sunak expected to extend Coronavirus Business Interruption Loan Scheme, Bounce Back Loans and Future Fund until end-November

Business Loans

Small businesses have average of just £9,000 left from Bounce Back Loan

Majority of small businesses expect what’s left from their COVID-19 Bounce Back Loans to run out by end of September

News

Rishi Sunak to extend government coronavirus business support

Chancellor Rishi Sunak expected to extend Coronavirus Business Interruption Loan Scheme, Bounce Back Loans and Future Fund until end-November

Business Loans

Small businesses have average of just £9,000 left from Bounce Back Loan

Majority of small businesses expect what’s left from their COVID-19 Bounce Back Loans to run out by end of September

Government Grants

MPs back call for ‘targeted’ extension of furlough scheme

Treasury select committee says businesses most affected by social distancing might be viable in the long term

Business Loans

Small businesses should ‘only repay coronavirus debt once back in profit’

Centre-right thinktank Onward argues that HMRC could add debt repayment surcharge to tax owing on profitable businesses, leaving the rest untouched

Government Grants

Where to find your £1,000 small business lockdown grant

Treasury announces new emergency grants for businesses forced to close in sudden coronavirus lockdowns

Business Loans

Lloyds rapped for forcing Bounce Back Loans borrowers to open accounts

Lloyds Banking Group forced SME owners to open fee-charging business accounts if they wanted to borrow state-backed emergency coronavirus funding

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