A dedicated team of two CBF staff and a friend recently tackled one of the UK’s toughest races – the London2Brighton 100km Challenge Unlike in 2017, when four CBF Personnel and two friends signed up to walk the London2Brighton...
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,...
It’s been a difficult year for retail – or more accurately, 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 happened a...
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’...
Trevor Price, Managing Director at CBF, explains the cover available through one of our newest specialist Credit Insurance products, Cover Lease. Whether a lessee becomes insolvent, cannot pay because of a natural disaster or political risk, or simply doesn’t...
When is new business a worry as well as a boon? When there’s a risk of overtrading. In this article Graham Green, Business Development Manager at CBF, explains what it is, how it poses a threat to financial health,...
The UK’s political and economic landscape has changed significantly over the past year or two – our Managing Director, Trevor Price, takes a snapshot of the latest sector-specific challenges. According to recent research by KPMG, the number of companies...
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