State Street Global Exchange has released the results of the State Street Investor Confidence Index® (ICI) for May 2018.

UK business borrowing contracted slightly by 1.7 per cent in the last 12 months.  However within industry sectors there was a mixed picture with manufacturing maintaining strong growth at 8 per cent while construction contracted by 6.3 per cent in the year.

Data from eFront, covering 4,000 funds globally, shows that Western European private equity funds showed the best returns globally, at the same time as delivering robust performance on the VC side.

Strategic investors and private equity firms around the world turned to transactional risk insurance in record numbers in 2017 to reduce deal risk in a highly competitive merger and acquisition (M&A) environment, according to a new report published today by Marsh, a global leader in insurance broking and innovative risk management solutions.

Following research into the Key Information Documents (KIDs) being published by its members, the Association of Investment Companies (AIC) is calling on the FCA to take steps to protect consumers.  The methodologies and disclosures required by KIDs lead to misleading information and the FCA should take steps to prevent this information being more widely distributed than it needs to be.

The latest research from national audit, tax and advisory firm Crowe Clark Whitehill, together with the University of Portsmouth’s 

The number of scale-up businesses in the UK is rising fast and almost half (42%) have been founded by people aged 34 and under, according to a new report.

Since 2016, female entrepreneurs received 44 pence in funding for every £1 awarded to men, according to data from small business and startup finance provider Access Commercial Finance.

A joint report from UK Finance and Parker Fitzgerald views the safeguarding of data as core to sustainable digital financial services

• Consideration of risk needs to be part of the financial services technological revolution, yet the speed and scale of digital transformation brings non-financial risks to the fore
• Essential that new technologies are integrated safely within existing operating models

A new campaign shines a light on how fast-growing businesses across the UK need to deploy all forms of capital to achieve their growth ambitions.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has emerged as the most frequently mentioned theme in discussions among the key disruptive technologies during the first quarter (Q1) of 2018 on Twitter, according to leading data and analytics company GlobalData. 

In light of Mental Health Awareness Week 2018, which is focusing on stress, online printer instantprint has collected insider tips SMEs can implement to tackle money management issues and improve their mental health.