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Lacking in Cash Flow or Awareness?
The policy chairman at the campaign group of the Federation of Small Businesses, argues firms are still not meeting their financing needs, often because of a lack of awareness.
The inability or unwillingness of banks to provide finance to small businesses, boosting their cash flows, can be the difference between stagnation and success. In the absence of bank loans, alternative forms of financing, such as Invoice Finance, Peer-to-Peer lending and Crowdfunding, have flourished.
The real challenge is to make businesses aware that high street banks are risk averse, hence they do not lend, and therefore should look for alternative ways of funding. Banks should also move in this direction, operating with openness and ensuring that their customers are aware of what they need to be asking for.
You can read more here.
The Alternative Funding Network has taken a lead in the identification and research of critical and learn-able issues in the Investment Crowdfunding market.
Full members can access video case studies, such as Invoice Financing: A New Way of Fundraising for SMEs by Anil Stocker, Co-Founder of Market Invoice, which relates to Invoice Financing, as well as a wide range of news and information on Equity-based and Debt-based Investment Crowdfunding.
The inability or unwillingness of banks to provide finance to small businesses, boosting their cash flows, can be the difference between stagnation and success. In the absence of bank loans, alternative forms of financing, such as Invoice Finance, Peer-to-Peer lending and Crowdfunding, have flourished.
The real challenge is to make businesses aware that high street banks are risk averse, hence they do not lend, and therefore should look for alternative ways of funding. Banks should also move in this direction, operating with openness and ensuring that their customers are aware of what they need to be asking for.
You can read more here.
The Alternative Funding Network has taken a lead in the identification and research of critical and learn-able issues in the Investment Crowdfunding market.
Full members can access video case studies, such as Invoice Financing: A New Way of Fundraising for SMEs by Anil Stocker, Co-Founder of Market Invoice, which relates to Invoice Financing, as well as a wide range of news and information on Equity-based and Debt-based Investment Crowdfunding.
