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News
- British Business Bank annual report: Lender provides £9.2bn to smaller UK companies (City AM)
- Cambridge takes top spot in city economic growth league table (Irwin Mitchell’s UK Powerhouse report)
- Late payments cost smaller UK businesses more than £2bn a year(Independent on Bacs research)
- Bank of England gives fintech startups direct access to the UK’s RTGS payments system in latest innovation move (City AM)
Opinion
- The investment community is sexist (Debbie Wosskow, chief executive, Love Home Swap and co-founder and chair, AllBright)
- The questions almost no startup founders ask (extract from Ryan Holiday’s book, The Perennial Seller)
- Why business should stop trying to win back trust (Michael Skapinker, contributing editor, FT)
- Employing modern thinking will make the gig economy work for everyone(Michelle Wright, founder and CEO, Cause4)
- Barcelona isn’t the new Silicon Valley – and that’s a good thing (George Chilton, creative director, Hubbub Labs and co-founder, Cooperativa de Serveis Linguistics de Barcelona)
- How women trounce men when raising seed crowdfunding capital (David Prosser, contributor, Forbes)