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Bank reveals challenges facing ethnic minority business owners
Black business owners and those from Asian and Other Ethnic Minority backgrounds face persistent disparities in business outcomes, with systemic disadvantage playing a key role.
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British fintech Lanistar heading for £1bn valuation with global expansion
Leading banking alternative Lanistar, the company which is set to revolutionise how customers streamline their money, has announced it has opened a new European office...
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Remote working not working? There’s an easy answer for SMEs
Guest post by Navjot Sanghera – Apple Product Manager
Many SMEs have had to urgently adapt the way they work of late. For many, it’s...
Navigating the post-Covid crossroads
Natasha Frangos talks to four businesses about the sort of strategies needed for the next decade
For some time, an evolving landscape has been threatening...
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High Street confidence is up – but so is the prospect...
Overall business confidence improved for the second consecutive month in July, rising eight percentage points according to the Lloyds Bank Commercial Banking Business Barometer.
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How SMEs can help to meet global sustainability targets
By James Napier
A few weeks ago, major global corporations urged world leaders to align COVID recovery with climate science, and reconfirmed their commitment to...
HR
Missed our holiday in Lockdown? We’ll just roll it over . .
Over two-thirds of full-time employees are planning to roll at least one day of annual leave into their next holiday period after a temporary...
Charity launches free domestic abuse advice line for businesses
A new advice line for businesses supporting employees experiencing or at risk of domestic abuse has been launched by a crisis support charity.
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B&Q’s £100,000 does it for local apprentices
B&Q has pledged to transfer £100,000 of expiring levy funds to a scheme helping SMEs in the Solent area to train new apprentices and...
Rise of the ‘collaborative’ workspace
Most managers feel that so-called collaborative workspaces are now more suitable for their post-lockdown business models than fully-staffed offices, according to a new survey.
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Is this the end of lunch at the desk?
Before the pandemic forced us to take a break from the office, we rarely even left it for lunch. In fact, an...
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Still competing. The only thing that has changed is the pitch
Saracens and Wales rugby star Dom Day retired in December last year and started his own company, fourfiveCBD, selling a hemp-based product that had...
