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Private Equity Benefits

With private equity investment activity on the rise, Asset Based Lending (ABL) is playing an increasing role in funding buy-outs

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  Finance boom time despite the slump

  For many businesses hit by a cash-flow crisis in recent years, commercial finance has been the difference between survival and going under. As a result, the commercial finance industry has recorded strong growth, even at the recession’s peak, reports Jason Hesse.
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  How to cope with a cash squeeze

  More than three years on from the financial crisis and Britain’s legion of smaller companies, the lifeblood of any economy, still face an uphill slog when it comes to sourcing enough cash, writes Elliot Wilson
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  When business success is a question of funding

  Founder of the School for Startups, Doug Richard is at the forefront of entrepreneurial endeavour. Dan Matthews asks the business mentor and original TV Dragon how best to finance growth.
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  Is UK economy adapting to tough 'new normal'?

  As a period of low interest rates looks like coming to an end, businesses could find it harder still to secure finance, warns Charles Orton-Jones.
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  Is this a solution to the credit crunch?

  A gloomy risk outlook and hesitant consumer spending has weighed heavy on the asset finance industry, but this type of borrowing could still be the best bet for cash-strapped companies, as Dan Matthews reports.
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  Making the most of Commercial Finance

  As Chancellor George Osborne’s £20-billion credit easing scheme for small businesses gets off the ground, critics argue the plan will make little difference to cash-starved firms, writes Elliot Wilson.
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  Q&A: FastTrack Invoice Discounting

  Vfiles talks to ABN AMRO Commercial Finance's Alison Small Managing Director, North about the new FastTrack Invoice Discounting facility
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  How to Kick Start Growth

  Peter Ewen Venture Managing Director states that a new approach is required from financiers and SMEs if they are to meet their growth objectives this year
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  Export Finance

  In the first of a two-part series on Trading Overseas, International Manager Peter Brinsley explains how factoring and invoice discounting can enable businesses to grow their export revenues
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  Advice Clinic: Getting Deals Done

  ABN AMRO Commercial Finance's Cliff Meek, outlines the steps companies can take to make funding deals more likely to succeed in the current climate
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  The Real Value of Invoice Finance

  Peter Ewen explains the real value of invoice finance and why businesses can not afford to dismiss it as a funding option
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  A Ticking Time Bomb?

  Accountants Survey: Unless SMEs find a way to defuse the cash crisis, the fragile economic recovery could explode...
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  Restoring Balance

  Venture’s Steve Websdale on the problems that may arise when companies are considered on historic numbers
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  Championing Cashflow

  Cash is still king and ABL is playing an increasingly important role in helping businesses to manage cashflow