Unsecured Trade Finance – Old Hat Overseas, New Down Under

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 [...]

Not as scary as Mr Lecter but still challenging Eric Johnston from the Age writes: “BANKS will find it tougher to apply out-of-cycle interest rate rises on home loans if, as expected, the Henry [...]

Construction is attractive, but being rejected…. Louise Hall from the SMH reports that the NSW economy continues to be the worst-performing in the nation and the government must urgently [...]

The SMH reports today that Australian firms have fewer taxes and less red tape at the top of their wish list for the soon-to-be released Henry tax review, a survey says. We all have dreams. The [...]

The NAB has just released its Quarterly Australian Commercial Property Survey. The survey suggests that 76% of commercial property developers indicate they will commence new works in the next 12 [...]

Where is your business fueling up? According to Commonwealth Bank group executive of business and private Banking Ian Narev “There is a misconception that banks have stopped lending to [...]

Carl Rogers, Nobel peace prize winner, humanist and pre-eminent psychotherapist of the twentieth century espoused three core conditions to relating to people and understanding the human [...]