How SMEs are faring in these challenging times with an update from the SME Finance Monitor to Q3 available

Interactive maps show a summary of some of the key indicators of business health across regions and nations of the UK - data from the latest annual SME Finance Monitor report.

SME Finance Monitor author Shiona Davies shares thoughts from the UK Finance Festival in Belfast

A week ago, I attended the launch of the Scaleup Institute’s 2018 annual report. Held at Canada House, an audience of private and public sector organisations that work with growing businesses heard about the challenges facing such companies and the steps being taken to support them.

Comprehensive data from BVA BDRC about the quality of service offered to SME business current account holders is now available. This latest major project adds to the company’s suite of benchmarking insights provided to clients.

Author of the SME Finance Monitor, Shiona Davies, shares an update from the quarterly study of the appetite and success rate of SME applications for finance.

We are delighted to be one of a handful of market research agencies to hold both ISO 20252 (quality standards) and ISO 27001 (data security). Following our successful ISO 27001 certification in October, what are the lessons we learned along the way?

Find out the initial findings from post-Brexit interviews with 200 such SMEs on the Business Omnibus (asked in conjunction with Lloyds Bank Commercial Banking for the “Business Barometer” report)

How do we define success? Is it serving your 100th customer, employee stability or financial liquidity? Success for SMEs seems to be measured in so many different ways.

The EMB report is one of a series of additional reports from the SME Finance Monitor. This infographic covers the period from Q1 2013 to Q2 2014, and presents key data for 4 different groups of EMBs (Asian, Black, Chinese and Mixed).

To celebrate the scale of the SME Finance Monitor we have summed up the figures in a colourful infographic.

The latest special report from the SME Finance Monitor shows that in many instances, SMEs led by women are very similar to those led by men, but once the demographic profile has been taken into account there are a number of key differences, particularly amongst the smaller businesses.

In the latest wave of BVA BDRC’s SME Finance Monitor there are signs of increased optimism about the economy and business prospects, but applications and appetite for finance remain muted.

In a more optimistic atmosphere, there are few signs of any increasing appetite for external finance among small and medium businesses.

The role of bank finance and SMEs’ access to funding has returned to the media spotlight recently.