May 31, 2023: Free to attend workshop – limited places available After the Consumer Duty comes into force on 31 July, the FCA have said they will act swiftly and assertively where it finds evidence of harm or risk of harm to consumers. This workshop will help b...

 

May 24, 2023: Inflation has finally dipped below double digits dropping by 1.4% to 8.7%, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS). Despite easing back to its lowest level since March 2022, inflation has remained higher than expected as food prices ...

 

May 11, 2023: The Bank of England has today announced a base rate rise by 0.25 percentage points to 4.5 percent in a bid to curb rising inflation. The Bank’s move - the 12th successive rise in the cost of borrowing since December 2021 - lifts the base rate to i...

 

Apr 20, 2023: We have just published the summary and analysis of the Asset Finance Connect conference session covering the consumer understanding outcome of the new Consumer Duty, which took place at our December conference with Helena Thernstrom, Clare Hughes, ...

 

Mar 30, 2023: Following the technical consultation on the design of the zero emission vehicle (ZEV) mandate for new cars and vans in June 2022 and the green paper on a new road vehicle CO2 regulatory framework in July 2021, the Government are now seeking views o...

 

Mar 30, 2023: The Government has today published ‘Mobilising green investment: 2023 green finance strategy’, an update to the earlier 2019 strategy, intended to harness the UK’s world-leading financial services sector to support our climate and environmental obj...

 

Mar 16, 2023: The UK Chancellor of the Exchequer Jeremy Hunt presented his Spring Budget statement on 15th March. Full expensing: The Chancellor has announced a replacement for the Super Deduction, which was introduced in 2021, with the three-year ‘full expens...

 

Mar 14, 2023: As the Chancellor prepares to deliver the 2023 Spring Statement, Ed Rimmer, Chief Executive Officer at Time Finance, shares his predictions for this year’s ‘mini budget’ and what businesses need to see from the Government to boost growth and produc...

 

Mar 13, 2023: Ahead of the Spring Budget, new data from SME funder Bibby Financial Services (BFS) reveals that small to medium-sized businesses (SMEs) have lost confidence in the Government’s commitment to support them. In a survey of 500 SMEs from across the U...

 

Mar 07, 2023: The National Association of Commercial Finance Brokers (NACFB) has called for the government to urgently intervene with two separate regulatory frameworks in a bid to prevent a reduction in SME lending. ...