Patrick Wilkins, a regional director with Venture Structured Finance, gives his views on the Budget and what it means for the asset-based lending industry.
While the private equity and VC community have welcomed George Osborne's 2011 Budget, many businesses say they fail to see great benefit from the government's enterprise initiatives.
The government's 'green investment bank' will have access to up to £3 billion of funds to support low-carbon investment, Chancellor George Osborne has announced.
Chancellor George Osborne has strongly backed the Enterprise Investment Scheme (EIS) in today’s Budget, making ‘sweeping changes’ to the initiative to improve business access to finance.
Alistair Darling has pledged some help for growing businesses in what might be his last pre-Budget report, but employers will be less pleased about the planned rise in national insurance.
