Not A Lot Of People Know That The best way to demystify a few misconceptions about business lending is to start by quoting Michael Caine. Whilst I can’t promise this will blow your blo*dy doors off, it may make you think a little differently. I Never Used To Use Amazon Roll the clock back 10
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Lenders Don’t Understand My Business I have written previously about why borrowers and lenders see things very differently, it is a glass half full or glass half empty scenario. What makes things worse is that the narrative and language used by a borrower and a lender is often the same, but the meaning or intention
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Why Lenders and Borrowers Fail to Understand Each Other Having been a credit underwriter and worked in the commercial lending sector it is easier to take a step back and look at what the lender hears when the borrower says something. I hear the message from my clients but a lender commonly hears something totally
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Obtaining business investment is one of the most challenging tasks a company will undertake, this is especially prevalent for any small business that lacks the board and range of skills often required to secure business investment. In part one of this article we looked at forecasts and what a company needs to give to receive
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Raising investment funding for your business can be a difficult task, there is no easy solution and there is a large amount of good fortune involved in securing the right investment funding. However, it is not all some mysterious dark art, there are things that you can do to put your business in a better
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We try and explain the basics of why a banker doesn’t always understand the entrepreneur and vise-versa. To obtain business finance you need to have an appreciation for what the business banker thinks, it is unlikely the bank will change so to succeed you need to be understanding, sorry… The first in our series of
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