How Unstructured Growth Can Kill SMEs

Good times can also bring problems. The financial rumor mills are at it again. A quick surf today revealed warnings that the ATO is set to take an aggressive stance toward SME debtors after [...]

Middle class Australia, where the poodles run free! I like small business. I like the people that work in it. They’re real. Most corporations are sheltered workshops for the middle classes. The [...]

Put your hands up for Detroit… Last Thursday in Detroit, Ben Bernanke spoke frankly about the plight of small business in the US. “Encouraging lending to small businesses that are well [...]

New Bridging Finance option...it's truly no bull! AR Cash Flow has launched a new bridging finance product aimed squarely at the SME market. According to AR Cash Flow’s National Sales Manager, [...]

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 [...]