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Project Merlin SME lending shortfall increases

Major bank lending to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) has fallen short of targets in the first nine months of the year agreed under Project Merlin.

Banking

Banking

Lending: Are the banks performing?

The banks say they are lending; businesses see otherwise. We talk to both sides about the reality of financing hopes for enterprise this year.

Banking

Scottish Loan Fund nears £100 million

Four high street banks have backed the Scottish Loan Fund, investing nearly £40 million in the initiative that aims to increase business access to finance.

Banking

Banks: open for business? 

Personal guarantees and onerous lending terms are making it tough for entrepreneurs to secure finance. M&A reports.

Banking

Banks pledge SME support

Abbey and Alliance & Leicester are to participate in government-led initiatives to increase lending to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs).

Banking

Q&A – Raising funds and financing the deal

Sarah Drake of Thomas Eggar LLP answers your questions on the challenges of raising funds in a downturn.

Banking

Bankers fight back

There’s been a general rush to pin blame on the banks for the current dearth of business finance. Here, we give bankers a chance to put their side of the story and ask them what they’re looking for from their business borrowers.

Banking

Corporates optimistic despite banking crisis

The onset of the banking crisis and the subsequent challenges of funding transactions and growth haven’t significantly reduced mid-market corporate appetite for M&A, according to business and financial advisers Grant Thornton.

Banking

Bankers fight back

There’s been a general rush to pin blame on the banks for the current dearth of business finance. Here, we give bankers a chance to put their side of the story and ask them what they’re looking for from their business borrowers.

Banking

Corporates optimistic despite banking crisis

The onset of the banking crisis and the subsequent challenges of funding transactions and growth haven’t significantly reduced mid-market corporate appetite for M&A, according to business and financial advisers Grant Thornton.

Banking

Where next for the UK economy?

With the banking crisis starting to hit the real economy, business leaders and analysts give us their outlook for the months ahead.

Banking

Bank finance in the credit crunch

Despite talk that lending terms are tightening and cash is harder to come by, banks insist that their doors are as open as ever to growing companies.

Banking

Banks turn the screw

Nearly 4,800 UK companies went bust in the first quarter of 2008, an increase of 8.5 per cent on the same period last year, according to data from information services group Experian.

Banking

Banking on expansion

With India's tiger economy hungry for global opportunities, it should come as no surprise that footprints are appearing on the UK corporate landscape. M&A's Morag Dickson talks to executive director Sonjoy Chatterjee about internationalising ICICI Bank's offering

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