Financing business

High growth small and medium-sized enterprises are reluctant to seek finance from banks to fund growth, a study by the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland has found.

The government has committed an extra £100 million worth of funding to a scheme designed to boost UK manufacturing, the Business Secretary Vince Cable has announced.

Business investment in 'intangible' assets, such as intellectual property, increased by more than 10 per cent to £137.5 billion from 2009 to 2011, according to Government figures.

Chancellor George Osborne delivered his 2014 Budget statement on 19 March 2014. Here is a round-up of reaction from industry bodies.

Seventy per cent of all new businesses are started at home, research by AXA Business Insurance and the Enterprise Nation business network has found.

Scotland needs new sources of credit to help small and medium-sized businesses access finance, the Scottish Parliament's economy, energy and tourism committee has said.

The British Business Bank will invest £40 million to support peer-to-peer lending to small and medium-sized businesses.

Small and medium-sized enterprises are struggling to access the finance they need to start-up, operate and grow, according to a report from the House of Commons Public Accounts Committee.

Net lending under the Funding for Lending Scheme was three times higher in the third quarter of this year than it was in the second, the latest data from the Bank of England has shown.

Small and medium-sized enterprises in the European Union appear to have turned an economic corner in 2013, according to a report from the European Commission.