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Funding from banks for UK SMEs is still extremely hard to access. Many lenders are still in a cautionary mode and UK SMEs, who need business capital to fuel growth, are losing out.

As global economic growth edges up to 3.1% and UK businesses continue to thrive despite the implications of last year’s Brexit vote, now is the time for SMEs to recognize the plethora of benefits that are available to them if they get on board with exporting.

With new statistics from the London Business survey revealing that recruitment figures are down 43% across SMEs in South London, a capital financing firm is keen to assess whether there is a staffing crisis sweeping UK businesses.

The UK has a rich history of technological research and advancement. Beginning with Alan Turning’s first leaps in the world of computer learning.

The news broke recently that the East Coast Main Line will once again be under the control of government. With this marking the third time in a decade that the troubled line has needed government intervention, many people are asking questions.

It’s impossible to ignore the plight of generation rent. The issue has become so big, with so many affected, that it’s almost a daily occurrence to confront the latest grim facts and figures.

Moving house is often described by those who have experienced it as the most stressful time during their lives. The upheaval of your life and the need to pack up all your belongings and sometimes, relocate to a completely different part of the country, is understandably, a fairly hefty challenge.

With generation X seeking out ambitious job roles and aspiring to move out of their parental home and the older generation living longer than ever and many continuing to work, it seems that steps should be taken to bridge the gap between these two groups.

The housing shortage in the UK has reached a new high recently, with the population continuing to grow by half a million people each year and the amount of homes being built by developers failing to keep up with the demand.

The affordable housing crisis is one that is affecting millennials and those with aspirations of progressing up the property ladder alike

It’s no secret that the housing crisis in the UK is one that has been getting progressively worse for a number of years, with the Prime Minister stating that it was her personal mission to ‘fix’ the situation towards the end of last year.

It’s not hard to see why supermarkets Sainsbury’s and Asda have decided on a merger, creating a supermarket behemoth worth a staggering £14.1billion.

The threat of cyberattacks is, as we all know, always lurking on the horizon, much in the same way as GDPR is, which is being implemented on the 25th May.

Theresa May has already expressed that it is her personal mission to ‘fix’ the current housing shortage in the UK, which is impeding on young people desperately trying to get on the property ladder.

Property investors are always on the lookout for the new hotspots that are good for investment and will offer them great returns and renting opportunities.

It may be the hub of the financial world in the UK and be home to over 8 million inhabitants, but it seems that employment levels have begun to take a nosedive in England’s capital.

As the property market in the UK continues to teeter on unstable grounds, many investors are making surprising decisions about where to buy property.

Whether you’ve heard of the flat white economy or not, it’s a notion and idea that has, for some years, been changing the landscape of business and development in the UK, and things could be set to shift even further.

The single market benefits businesses when it comes to the movement of goods, services and people within the UK.

The housing crisis, particularly in London, is deepening, and more and more millennials and renters are being left in difficult scenarios, with many struggling to make ends meet.