Source : North East Access to Finance (EU supported) & own edits Small businesses struggling to access credit are to be given a welcome boost with £110 million of new funding, Vince Cable announced today. The Business Secretary pledged £55 million of Government funding – through the Business Finance Partnership scheme – to peer to peer lenders and other finance suppliers. (more…)
Read morePlease find the official US amendment here. Thu . 8 Nov. – The SEC signaled several months ago that it was willing to take a fresh look at its rules for broker registration, which were enacted in — and have not been changed since — the Depression. And last month, the House of Representatives passed the Entrepreneur Access to Capital Act (more…)
Read morePRESS RELEASE – London, 15th August 2011 – Today sees the launch of the ‘Peer-to-Peer Finance Association’, a new UK trade body set up primarily to ensure this innovative and rapidly growing sector maintains high minimum standards of protection for consumers and small business customers, as it brings much-needed new competition and innovation to the banking market. In Britain this (more…)
Read moreJuly 6, London & Hong Kong – Community startup funding company Grow VC today announced the launch of its “Virtual VC Co-investment Fund”. Keeping in line with the concept of creating a “Virtual Silicon Valley” and developing new models for more efficient early phase funding Grow VC rolls out the “Virtual VC Co-investment Fund” to enable VC’s to participate in (more…)
Read moreDiscover the latest WebTV technologies that can be used for online banking 2nd December 2010 – Open Minds event Speaker : Mr. Alexis Prevot France country manager, IPERCAST The theme of this evening was to better understand how Web TV can be used in financial services and the added value it can bring. Ipercast presented a case for Web TV usage (more…)
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