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Rescued banks forced to up small business lending
Under a rescue deal announced this morning, three of the UK's biggest banks will be obliged to lend to small businesses at 2007 levels. The Government is injecting £37 billion of capital into...
'Comply with data security standard' warns business group
The Forum of Private Business (FPB) has warned SMEs to comply with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) or face penalties. The PCI DSS was developed by leading credit card...
Gordon Brown's pledge to small businesses
The prime minister has said that the Government's bank bail-out plan is intended to protect small and medium enterprises (SMEs). Gordon Brown insisted that "the bank credit line will be...
Bank rate cut by half a point
The Bank of England has cut the cost of borrowing by half a percentage point, a full day before it was due to make its monthly decision on interest rates. The announcement came at midday on...
Number of start ups 'on the rise'
More new UK businesses have started up in the past three months than in the same period last year, according to a new survey. Figures from direct marketing company Selectabase suggest that the...
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