Barriers to growth event to examine new lending landscape

ENTREPENEURS, small business advisers and legal experts are to debate the new  landscape for funding and finance and the issues that are holding SMEs back.

A free-to-attend seminar on November 13 at the Radisson Blu Edwardian Hotel in Manchester is aimed at business owners, managers and directors, will look at the barriers to growth facing small and medium-sized firms. To register email: gurmukh.bhurjee@thebusinessdesk.com

Also on the agenda will be the question posed by law firm Berg in its Banking Report earlier this year , where it suggested that the essential bond of trust between banks and their customers has been eroded by the banking scandals such as mis-selling of interest rates swaps and Libor rate fixing.

The seminar will hear from Phil Orford, chief executive of small business pressure group Forum for Private Business, Ruben Berg and Alison Loveday from Berg, and Andy Veares from MetroBank, a one of the challenger banks.

North West entrepreneurs Lee Birkett and Al Mackin will also share their experiences of business growth and finding finance.

Topics will also include: What have been the barriers to growth?; can the ‘challenger banks’ step into the void?; what role for crowd funding? and will the  general election and possible change of government impact the lending market?

To register your interest, please e-mail gurmukh.bhurjee@thebusinessdesk.com

Registration begins at 07:45 to include breakfast for the start of the seminar at 08:15 with the session completing at 10:30am.