I attended a useful briefing from a Barrister this week. He has gone through the current thinking from the Courts on cases re SWAPS that are currently subject to Appeals and will therefore prove to be useful rulings later in the year. He also shared his views about the FSA/FCA review process where we know Read more about SWAPS – up-date[…]

Continuing my theme of ‘Business owners are from Mars, Bankers are from….’ an interesting article in Estates Gazette this week written by a senior commercial real estate banker. In it he shares that he has a moral problem when he is approached to refinance another banks deal where the applicant is using the refinance to Read more about Access to Finance: the human factors…[…]

‘Hats off’ to Sharon Simpson at Calverton Finance – a small but quality finance business specialising in invoice discounting and factoring. After an urgent call late on a Friday afternoon from an (otherwise!) excellent client of mine, I put a call out to Sharon at 6:00pm on Friday. Within 3 working days she had in Read more about Invoice Discounting – quality service[…]

Following on from the surges in Medtech and Cleantech the disruptions in the financial industry are creating new opportunities. Financial Technology companies (Fintechs) are the latest group of start up entrepreneurs converging on London to exploit an opportunity. These pioneers are spotting gaps in the market for money transmission, peer to peer lending, riskier and Read more about Now it is ‘Fintechs’…[…]