CIM Commercial Trust Closes $385 Million Seven-Year Unsecured Term Loan

The Eurozone posted a trade in goods surplus against the rest of the world of €20 billion in November 2014, according to a recent Eurostat estimate.

Brits incorrectly believe household favourites Tesco and Sainsburys are in the top 10 biggest companies of the FTSE 100, according to a new poll by IG Markets.

The outstanding value of non-emergency lending by banks to SMEs has dropped by 10% from £168bn in December 2019 to £152bn in December 2020, shows new research from ACP Altenburg Advisory, the debt advisory specialist.

Bitcoin is known as the “gold standard” of cryptocurrency. Chances are you’ve heard of it but may not really understand its importance and growing relevance. In recent years, however, banks, governments and crucially divorce lawyers are beginning to take a much more forensic interest. And if you own bitcoin or have a spouse that does […]

Laureola Advisors was established to provide conservative investors easy access to the opportunities inherent in the alternative asset class of life settlements. We got in touch with Tony Bremness, Managing Director at Laureola Advisors, on how life settlements allow investors to sleep well through turbulent markets.

GE Capital International and Ares Management Ltd. have announced that the European Senior Secured Loan Programme (ESSLP), a €1.7bn joint venture between the two firms, has completed its seventh transaction with the closing of a £153m unitranche facility to refinance Parkdean, a leading holiday park operator in the UK.

Confluence, the global leader in investment data management automation, has continued its expansion by opening an office in Ireland.

More than half of early-stage companies identify sharing resources as vital to SME success, according to a report published by car sharing and car club service Zipcar, in conjunction with StartUp Britain and Ashridge Business School.

April 2018 was the deadline by which large UK firms (those with more than 250 people in their employ) had to publish their pay data. The government deadline was set in order to explore whether the gender pay gap was still a prevailing issue, and if it was, how badly skewed the pay rates were between men and women.

The Q4 2014 ICAEW/Grant Thornton UK Business Confidence Monitor, published today, shows that business confidence in the UK cooled further in the fourth quarter and currently stands at +28.6. Although lower than the +32.3 level of the past three months, the Confidence Index remains high compared with most of the past 10 years.