Along with the detailed evaluation of market developments and particular person finance markets we offer annually, our Small Enterprise Finance Markets 2022/23 report (PDF, 5.1MB) highlights the function of finance in driving innovation throughout the UK’s small enterprise inhabitants and in supporting small companies to offer options to realize the UK’s internet zero targets.
Key findings contained within the 2022/23 report embrace the next:
- 2022 has been a difficult yr for the UK’s 5.5m smaller companies, with excessive power costs and inflation. This put stress on many small companies’ monetary positions.
- Lending volumes grew in 2022 with challenger and specialist banks accounting for a document share of gross lending in 2022. Use of exterior finance figures, nevertheless, level to growing indicators of difficulties in accessing finance.
- Fairness finance raised by small companies noticed a turning level halfway via 2022 following two years of very robust development.
- Finance to help each new-to-market and new-to-business improvements are important to delivering long-term financial development within the UK economic system.
- Fairness flows are supporting smaller companies to develop internet zero options, with net-zero associated offers making up an growing share of exercise. This factors to extra fairness and debt funded funding in smaller companies options.
Additional particulars and insights will be present in this yr’s report (PDF, 5.1 MB).
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The British Enterprise Financial institution 2022 Enterprise Finance Survey
The Financial institution’s SME Finance Survey (PDF, 1,387 KB) was undertaken by Ipsos MORI and engaged 2,213 small and medium companies (ie enterprises with fewer than 250 staff) in This autumn 2022. The survey covers core matters alongside a lot of new questions to ascertain SME consciousness and implementation of Environmental, Social, and Governance elements to their companies. Survey information was weighted to mirror UK SMEs from BEIS enterprise inhabitants estimates. Obtain the Enterprise Finance Survey Report (PDF, 1,387 KB)
