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Ohhh Canada, not only the nicest people but the nicest banks as well! In Canada they have a special government-owned bank (called the Business Development Bank of Canada) that focuses on lending [...]

Banks don’t really want SME customers. Mind you, they say they do, but they don’t really. In short, banks view SMEs as high maintenance, low margin customers. Yesterday the SMH reported that the [...]

Don’t let slow debtor payments turn into a disaster.. Credit agency Dun & Bradstreet has delivered a blunt warning to SMEs about the patchy state of the economic recovery and now has [...]

It's time to update your funding options...Panic about increased interest rates to business is a combination of media beat-up and generational naivety. In the Dark Ages of late last century [...]

You’ll be surprised at what funding you can obtain for those large style business transactions Small business is the true engine of economic development and job growth. And today plenty of [...]

Most SME’s believe banks are their only saviour to cash flow woes… According to the latest Sensis Business Index Report (March 2010), SMEs have ‘mixed feelings’ about their business [...]

Funding based purely on the transaction & not your assets...Since writing my last blog on trade finance, I’ve had requests for a little more detail on how it works. Mind you, one reader in [...]

Greedy government eyes off mining profits… Pre and post war Australia, rode the sheep’s back. It was literally Australia’s golden fleece. However, unless my memory, or more pertinently the [...]

Small businesses that buy goods from overseas have been urged to pay close attention to a legal battle that has pitted listed Australian toy company Funtastic Limited against a former Chinese [...]

The Henry Report’s out. If you’re a small business with less than $2 million revenue you will probably be better off as your tax rate will be cut from 30% to 28%. Here’s what you’ll save. Revenue [...]