The report ‘The Role of Business Schools in Driving Innovation and Growth in the Domestic Economy’ has been critical of UK Business Schools for: Having too few academics and lecturers that have experience of the ‘real [business] world’ Not being easy for outside business to engage with when they seek help with research projects Failing Read more about Working with Alumni – how can it make a difference to a University?[…]

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[…]