Finance

The Forum of Private Business (FPB) has created a guide to help businesses tackle late payment and access to finance problems, which it is pitching first at printers.

Heidelberg has more than halved its losses, and has made a big improvement to profitability at an operating level.

New government figures have revealed that lending to SMEs through its Enterprise Finance Guarantee (EFG) scheme is showing improvement.

Almost a quarter of recent overdraft pleas from small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) from across sectors fell on deaf ears, new figures reveal.

Walstead Investments has posted maiden profits, with chairman Mark Scanlon hailing "excellent progress" in 2012 following extensive restructuring at the business.

Business organisations have given evidence at a parliamentary inquiry into the practice of late payment and its impact on UK SMEs.

The Bank of England and HM Treasury have announced an extension to the Funding for Lending scheme (FLS) that is "heavily skewed" to support net lending to SMEs.

The applications process to become part of a pioneering innovation centre in Dundee that will support start-ups in the digital, technology and creative media sectors has opened.

US printers had a sharp drop in first quarter profits despite a modest rise in sales revenues, the Semper International survey for Q1 2013 has found.

George Osborne is expected to announce an extension to the Funding for Lending Scheme (FLS), which is due to expire in January 2014.

The Forum of Private Business (FPB) will be among a raft of business and industry representatives giving evidence at a cross party meeting next week examining the impact of late payment on SMEs.

The government has launched the first phase of its much anticipated Business Bank with a 300m investment programme for SMEs.