Finance – The London Business Journal

Entrepreneurship Funding

WAYBEYOND CAPITAL BACKS WEDISSIMO IN NEXT PHASE OF GROWTH

September 19, 2025 NewsDesk capital, Co-founder Andy Bowker, Co-founder David Awad-Clark, Finance, Funding, growth, Invest, Investment, strategy, UK wedding, WayBeyond Capital Ventures, wedding, wedding planning, Wedissimo

Wedissimo, the UK’s leading online wedding services marketplace, has secured fresh investment from WayBeyond Capital Ventures to accelerate its next

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Banking Business

LONDON BUSINESS ACTIVITY CONTRACTS FOR FIRST TIME IN OVER TWO YEARS AMID ECONOMIC UNCERTAINTY

May 14, 2025May 14, 2025 NewsDesk Bank, Banking, Business Activity Index, Chief Economist, cost, decline, dip in economy, employment, Finance, financial, growth, higher wage bills, IT expenses, London, London’s private sector, National Insurance, Natwest, Private sector, raw material costs, Sebastian Burnside, slow economy

London’s private sector output declined in April for the first time since 2022, as economic uncertainty and cost pressures weighed

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Investment Women in Business

DIGITAL ENTREPRENEUR LUCY HALL SECURES £250K INVESTMENT TO DRIVE BUSINESS GROWTH

March 7, 2025 NewsDesk Bank, Business Accelerator, community, Entrepreneur Accelerator Hub, female, Finance, founder, Funding, Investment, Kent, London, Lucy Hall, ManagerLuke Pamflett, Natwest, network, private investment funding, Skills of the Future Ltd, South East, STARTUP, Women, Women in Business

Lucy Hall, Founder of Skills of the Future Ltd, has secured £250,000 in private investment funding to fuel the expansion

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ASSETZ CAPITAL APPOINTS RELATIONSHIP DIRECTOR FOR THE SOUTHEAST

January 20, 2023 NewsDesk Andrew Charnley, Assetz Capital, capital, Finance, Leumi UK, Lloyds Banking Group, property funding, Relationship Directors, Southeast, UK

Specialist lender Assetz Capital have appointed Richard Martin as a Regional Relationship Director, based in the Southeast, as the company

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Volume 7 Issue 1, 2022

July 30, 2022 NewsDesk Accelerator, Banking, BBC, Beth Hampson, BMW Foundation, business sale, circular economy, Crystaline, digital, digital productivity, diversity pioneers, Dragons’ Den, economy, election, employment, entrepreneurship Shaun Williams, equality, Finance, Gabriella Peace, Graduates, Hatch, Health, Herbert Quandt, IBS, Investor, Ishreen Bradley, Jenny Campbell, Joris Kroese, Karen Warren, Kennet Nordlien, Kristian Torode, Lion Spirit Media, Lorraine Denton, Mark Williams, Marketing Communications, medical, medicine, Millionaire, Moritz Förster, Natasha Spencer-Jolliffe, Parvinder Sagoo, Personal Injury, Peter Rabey, Pleasanteeism, Presenteeism, Punter Southall Wealth, ReLondon, RESPOND, retire, Riskline, safety, security, sell business, Susanne McGraw, Team, The Argyll Club, trade, Travel, UK business, UK Economy, UK Greetings, UnternehmerTUM, Watermans, Wayne Hubbard, WorkJam, X4 Group

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Banking Finance News

GETTING YOUR TECH STRATEGY RIGHT IN FINANCIAL SERVICES POST PANDEMIC

July 11, 2021 NewsDesk Banking, Banks, Erlang Solutions, Finance, Fintech, Michael Jaiyeola, Money, new normal

By Michael Jaiyeola/Erlang Solutions For financial services institutions, much of what was road mapped for 2020 was ripped up or,

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Finance Property

LONDON MORTGAGE FIRM CELEBRATES 25-YEAR ANNIVERSARY FOLLOWING ‘CHALLENGING’ YEAR

June 25, 2021 NewsDesk 25th anniversary, Anniversary, Apprenticeship, Finance, First Financial, James Caplan, London, Michael Caplan, mortgage, non-traditional borrowers, Property, Stanmore

Family-run First Financial pays tribute to ‘dedicated team’ A leading London financial services firm has today paid tribute to its

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FOUR IN FIVE SMALL BUSINESS OWNERS SAY COVID-19 HAS NEGATIVELY IMPACTED THEIR MENTAL HEALTH

May 10, 2021May 10, 2021 NewsDesk Alan Thomas, anxiety, business owners, COVID-19, economic recovery, economy, Entrepreneur, Entrepreneurial, ENTREPRENEURS, Finance, finances, financial uncertainty, founder, Founders, Health, lack of sleep, Lockdown, Mental Health, mental health week 2021, Pandemic, recovery, Simply Business, small business, small business owners, stress, support, UK Economy, uncertainty, Wellbeing

Four in five (82%) small business owners say Covid-19 has negatively impacted their mental health One in five SME owners

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LONDON LOSES ALMOST A QUARTER OF ITS ATMs IN ONE YEAR

April 20, 2021April 20, 2021 NewsDesk Apple, Apple Pay, ATM, Banking, contactless, COVID-19, Customer Insight, digitised economy, Dojo, Finance, financial technologies, Google, Google Pay, high street, Jon Knott, Money, Payments, Paymentsense

A report by UK merchant payment provider, Dojo, part of the Paymentsense brand, has revealed the extent to which Britain’s

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