Commercial Mortgages – Cheaper & For Any Business Purpose? Lower cost and more flexible commercial mortgage lending sounds great. Doesn’t it? Let’s bring back an old friend to help, The Recovery Loan Scheme. Now branded as the trendy new RLS 3.0, it’s almost as if the British Business Bank asked Apple what to call the
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Reasons Why Recovery Loan Scheme Works Let’s start with the obvious. The Coronavirus Business Interruption Loan Scheme (CBILS) was a one off, really good, never to be repeated loan scheme so anything you compare to that is going to leave you disappointed. What you need to do is compare what the Recovery Loan Scheme offers
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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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When CBILS Bites Back CBILS finally ended on 31st March 2021, as of June 2020 £38bn had been advanced to 910k businesses. Between now and March 2022 businesses will need to start making repayments to these loans or seek agreement from their lender for special terms outside of the standard CBILS scheme. Many of these
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Equipment & Asset Finance – Capital Allowances Also known as the ‘super deduction‘, there is an increase in what companies can claim back against their corporation tax when purchasing new assets or equipment. Historically, companies could claim back the cost of new equipment and asset purchases as a P&L cost, meaning that their corporation tax
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Open Banking – The Truth There is a video here, if you want the wordy explanation, here goes. Open Banking is a system that allows one piece of software to access your bank details. For many of us we do this all the time when paying online or connecting our business account to Xero or
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The Real Reason Banks Decline Business Loans For the majority of businesses the main reason they are declined bank finance is never truly understood, it is vaguely concealed in a broad explanation that never really feels justified or right. The reason this happens is that your bank wants to keep you as a client. They
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Getting a Bank Loan or Dating? Businesses get turned down for finance, fact. What it doesn’t mean is that your business proposal or the business itself is wrong. Sometimes it just happens. There is a quote from Sahar Hashemi, co-founder of Coffee Republic; For me it’s a numbers game – you should almost notch up
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