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Finance

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Clydesdale Bank commits growth finance for CamSemi

Cambridge semiconductor company CamSemi has secured a growth finance deal from Clydesdale Bank ahead of further product launches later this year.

News

Borro secures lending facility from Octopus

Short-term asset lender borro has secured a new lending facility through Octopus Investments.

Venture Capital Funding

The role of VCT finance

Fund managers have described VCTs as ‘coming of age’, but how do businesses benefit from accessing their finance?

Alternative Finance for Business

Interview with GE Capital’s Adam Johnson – Primed for action

With over-leveraged financing no longer an option, 2010 could be a bumper year for alternative finance providers. Marc Barber catches up with GE Capital's Adam Johnson

Financial Management

Reducing currency exposure

Piers Cracknell, commercial director of currency specialist Moneycorp, comments on the pound's heavy fall against the dollar and assess its probable impact on growing businesses.

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.

Financial Management

Keep out: accountants at work

In many SMEs, the finance function simply doesn’t deliver the information the business needs.

Financial Management

How to improve your year-end numbers

Research from consultancy firm REL suggests that public companies improve their year-end results through a number of well-established ‘games’.

News

Refinancing for John Langford

Gentlemen's branded clothing business John Langford has been refinanced via a £3 million asset-based lending package.

News

Barclays sells Cabot

Barclays Private Equity has passed control of debt purchase group Cabot Financial over to European investment group Nikko Principal, via a £275 million secondary buyout.

Entrepreneurs

Peter Cullum: King of finance

Peter Cullum is shaking up the insurance sector by injecting a sense of fun, having boldly rejected the rituals of corporate life for the thrill of building his own business.

Banking

Return of the business overdraft

Business overdrafts have endured a tough press in recent years. But while they lack the marketability of loans and credit cards or the sexiness of invoice discounting, they remain as important as ever to growing businesses.