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The news section on Small Business UK allows you to keep up to date with the latest news, economic trends and regulatory developments affecting new and established UK small businesses.

Digital banking platforms outperforming traditional banks on service

Digital banking platforms are still relatively new to the market but are gaining the trust of small and medium-sized businesses.

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Over 90 new businesses being created every hour

The number of new businesses being set up jumped by 18% in the first half of this year, with London seeing the highest business creation rate. Over 402,000 businesses were registered between January and June 2022

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Sunak vows to slash business rates

Rival Liz Truss describes CBI call for Conservative leadership candidates to hold cost-of-living summit as 'bizarre' as government mulls energy blackouts for industry this winter

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Insolvencies reach highest level in 10 years

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2m small firms don’t think cutting their carbon affects climate change

Most microbusiness owners also don't fully understand the term 'net zero' or where to go for help to reduce their carbon footprint

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Typical business loses money for third of year

Nine out of ten small businesses take in less money than they pay out for at least one month a year, according to new research

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£6bn business loan package arrives this week

Successor to Recovery Loan Scheme will throw small business a lifeline in face of coming recession but will be less generous than before

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What Tory leadership rivals could mean for business

Every Tory leadership candidate apart from Rishi Sunak has pledged to cut a range of taxes, including corporation tax, national insurance and VAT

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£6bn business loan package arrives this week

Successor to Recovery Loan Scheme will throw small business a lifeline in face of coming recession but will be less generous than before

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What Tory leadership rivals could mean for business

Every Tory leadership candidate apart from Rishi Sunak has pledged to cut a range of taxes, including corporation tax, national insurance and VAT

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Inflation fear stopping a third starting business

Inflation is stopping a third of workers from setting up their small business, but a fifth still plan to launch in 2022

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Amazon probed over how it treats small businesses

The CMA will investigate how Amazon manages third-party data and whether it gives small businesses who use its Fulfilment by Amazon service an unfair advantage

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What does Nadhim Zahawi mean for small business?

Unlike his predecessor Rishi Sunak, the new chancellor of the exchequer has actually run a small business

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Two thirds of firms will increase prices within weeks

More than four in five businesses cite inflation as a growing worry in latest quarterly British Chambers of Commerce survey of business sentiment

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