The Prompt Payment Code is designed to give SMEs certainty over the behaviour of their larger customers – but is it working? At the end of May 2018, the chair of the Federation of Small Businesses, Mike Cherry, called...
How do you deal with online threats? In this article, Martyn Turner of Dunsby Associates offers some advice on protecting your business. The risks that companies face from cyber threats sadly remain all too real with the loss of...
Thinking of expanding your export business into Eastern territories? In this article, James Burgess of Atradius offers a useful guide to the risks and opportunities of the Asian markets. In the last 50 years, the Southeast Asian region has...
A dedicated team of three CBF staff tackled one of the UK’s toughest races – the London2Brighton Challenge. Unlike in 2017, when six CBF personnel and friends signed up to walk the London2Brighton Challenge 100km Ultra, only three were...
2018 was a difficult year for retail – or more accurately, it was another difficult year for retail. In this article we take a broad view of the economic landscape on Britain’s high streets and beyond. The Credit Crunch...
The Prompt Payment Code (PPC) is designed to give SMEs certainty over the behaviour of their larger customers – but is it working? At the end of last month, the chair of the Federation of Small Businesses, Mike Cherry,...
Looking back on the past year, Mark Kennedy, Service Director at CBF, highlights some key statistics. We started 2017 with the best news – all our hard work was recognised by the Chartered Institute of Credit Management in the...
Tom Danson, Midlands Regional Manager at Atradius, outlines some of the most favourable ‘new’ global markets. It wasn’t that long ago that thoughts of key emerging market opportunities would have focused on clusters of markets labelled by letters, such...
The last few months have seen a number of high profile business failures. Both Carillion and Palmer & Harvey had turnovers in the region of £4.5bn and since Christmas, Toys R Us and Maplin have also failed, whilst other...
Richard Reynolds, Head of Commercial (Midlands) at Atradius, takes a look back over the last decade, and outlines the effect that the credit crunch has had on the economy. It’s hard to believe that the words ‘global financial crisis’...
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