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Nearly half of small businesses do not intend to repay government loans

Either small business owners do not believe government will take them to court for non-repayment or they fear they will have gone bust within a year

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Small businesses could be facing debt of £105bn due to coronavirus

Sobering new figures show that business debt could be growing to an unsustainable level over the course of coronavirus lockdown

Business Loans

Nearly half of small businesses do not intend to repay government loans

Either small business owners do not believe government will take them to court for non-repayment or they fear they will have gone bust within a year

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Small businesses could be facing debt of £105bn due to coronavirus

Sobering new figures show that business debt could be growing to an unsustainable level over the course of coronavirus lockdown

Small Business Banking

State could take equity in small businesses, suggests Lloyds chairman

Lord Blackwell, chairman of Lloyds, says government could convert bad coronavirus emergency loan debt into equity, giving it stakes in thousands of small businesses

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Small Business Coronavirus Q&A – we answer your questions

In the Small Business Coronavirus Q&A, Anna Jordan talks to three experts about issues that are affecting small business owners

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Small Business coronavirus Q&A: send us your questions

Send in your questions for our expert panel on the government's emergency coronavirus measures for businesses

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Only one in nine coronavirus emergency business loans are approved

Just 13% of firms who have applied for a Coronavirus Business Interruption Loan have been successful, according to latest British Chambers of Commerce survey

Small Business Banking

Fintechs giving up on joining coronavirus emergency loan scheme

New breed of fintechs becoming disenchanted with ever joining the Coronavirus Business Interruption Loan Scheme, despite British Business Bank adding four more lenders

Financing

Rishi Sunak eyes offering 100% guaranteed loans for microbusinesses

As many of 1m microbusinesses could benefit from 100% guaranteed loans and overdrafts for up to £25,000 per small business

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Rishi Sunak rejects 100 per cent guarantee for business interruption loans

Chancellor Rishi Sunak says he is ‘not persuaded’ by calls to lift state guarantee for coronavirus business interruption loans to 100 per cent

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Coronavirus emergency business loans may be changed yet again

Chancellor Rishi Sunak says he is open to studying what other countries such as Switzerland are doing to help small businesses get through coronavirus crisis

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