Despite challenging economic conditions, SMEs are generally optimistic about 2025...

We've rounded up all of the key budget pointers from Rachel Reeves' first budget in our handy guide to set out they will affect you...

Inflation has dipped to 1.7%, this article looks at the prospects for interest rates...

Optimism among the UK’s small and medium-sized businesses has grown for a third consecutive year. Read more here. 

Possible Autumn interest rate cuts are predicted on the back of falling wage inflation and flatlining growth according to figures released in the last 48 hours. Read more here...    

Sir Keir Starmer has warned that October’s Budget will be “painful” and asked the country to “accept short-term pain for long-term good”. So which taxes may rise? This article explores...  

The UK economy grew 0.4% in May 2025, double the expected figure as more shoppers returned to high streets and construction work recovered, according to official data...

Inflation has hit the UK’s 2 per cent target for the first time in three years...    

The London stock market powered on to a new all-time high this morning on growing confidence that the Bank of England will start cutting interest rates this summer...   Read more here...

15,000 Start Up Loans worth over £100 million have now been issued to young business founders aged 18-24 since 2012. The Start Up Loan Scheme is government backed finance delivered through British Business Bank, which has delivered over £1 billion in loans to SMEs...