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The CBI has launched an alternative finance guide called on SMEs firms to consider the broad range of finance options available to help them grow, including asset-based lending, equity investment and peer-to-peer lending.

Banks have been accused of deliberately making it difficult for SMEs to borrow through a crowdfunding website by delaying paperwork and charging high fees.

The British Chambers of Commerce (BCC), in partnership with the Government Equalities Office (GEO), has launched a new booklet which explores the many ways that Business is Good for Equality.

Prime Minister David Cameron today called on start-up businesses and entrepreneurs across the UK to get involved in this year’s Conservative Party Start-up Hub and win the opportunity to showcase their work in front of thousands of visitors at the Conservative Party Conference in Manchester.

Ikea has announced that is is working on a new loyalty programme aimed at small businesses in London.

The Start-Up Loans Company, chaired by former BBC Dragon James Caan that helps thousands of young people start a business has been given the green light to open their doors to budding entrepreneurs of all ages.

London’s Deputy Mayor Kit Malthouse has opened the campaign’s latest PopUp shop on the King’s Road in Chelsea to help give start-up retailers from across the UK a helping start.

Lord Green has launched a week long series of events up and down the UK to promote business abroad.

Britain’s successful ‘Summer of Sport‘ delivered an initial £2.5 billion boost in foreign direct investment (FDI) over the past year bringing with it more than 31,000 jobs, according to preliminary figures.

Paul Lindley, who founded Ella’s Kitchen seven years ago to market “healthy, handy and fun” organic baby and children’s food and has just sold the company for an undisclosed amount to America’s Hain Celestial Group.

Barclaycard has launches bespoke offers, a personalised shopping service that is free to all UK consumers and will save them money on the goods and services they buy every day.

A third of employers will no longer have to pay National Insurance contributions under new laws in the Queen’s Speech.

The International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences (IADAS) presented the Webby Award for Best Website in the Sports category to the London 2012 Web and Mobile sites.

Stephen Hester, chief executive of Royal Bank of Scotland, has said there are no takers for £20bn of funds the bank would like to lend to SMEs

“Warren is in the house” was how billionaire investor Warren Buffett told the world he had joined Twitter.