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From understanding more about how a business can invoice effectively to avoid late payments, to what debt recovery means, how to take legal action against overdue debt, how to make a statutory demand against a company, we chatted to Toby McMurray, Partner at commercial law firm Tughans, to find out more about managing payments. Tughans is one of the largest commercial law firms in Northern I...
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If you’re counting on receiving a payment, days or even months after the due date, it’s time to take action. Here's some handy tips for dealing with late payments. If you’re counting on receiving a payment, days or even months after the due date, it’s time to take action. Before beginning the chasing up process, it’s important to remember that you’re asking for...
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Tenants take note! We take a look at CreditLadder, the FinTech / PropTech startup which rewards tenants with improved credit for on-time rent payments... If you’re a property owner, you’ll know only too well the impact that the payments on your mortgage will have on your credit rating. However if you’re a tenant it’s an entirely different matter. Whilst you may pay your la...
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Mojo Mortgages - The lowdown on the Fintech startup that's on a mission to simplify the entire process of getting a mortgage... Mortgages are an unnerving prospect to first time buyers. It’s that thing we’ve all heard that grown ups have and that stresses them out, and suddenly we are adults and we’re faced with renting forever or getting a mortgage. Even when we do rent, landlo...
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From Glasgow, Edinburgh, Newcastle and Leeds, to Birmingham, Cambridge, Oxford and Bournemouth, the support and help on offer for startups and small businesses can often be hard to find, or at least harder than you might think. With this in mind, here's our ongoing list of the key startup support and help in many of the UK's major cities. Startup Support in Nottingham Startup Support in Leeds S...
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The lowdown on Thyngs, the Fintech startup that is transforming any physical item into a virtual payment point... More and more, the digital and physical worlds are being connected. Augmented reality or Amazon’s staffless physical store are on the more obvious end of the scale, while things like beacons are on the more subtle side. The physical world can now be made digital, simplifyin...
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Exploring how technology is changing the accounting sector and how tech interaction is improving the overall client experience. Simon Dolan’s success began with placing a £10 advert in a local paper when he was 22. After working from a kitchen table for five years, Simon opened the first office and the firm grew rapidly, becoming a market leader in the contractor accountancy sect...
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Businesses take note - WeCovr is a FinTech startup created with you in mind, aiming to make insurance and finance easy to purchase and use... Whilst having business insurance is an absolute must for all enterprises, it can be both time consuming and costly for business owners to get the right cover. Whether it’s public liability insurance or cyber insurance, it can often be a challenge...
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SpareFare - The lowdown on the marketplace for non-refundable flights and holidays... It’s happened lots of us. We’ve booked a flight or a hotel room and then something gets in the way and we can’t make it. Travel insurance often doesn’t cover it, we can’t get a refund and we end up simply losing out on whatever we’ve spent. If it’s a budget airline or a ...
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Currently in private beta, Claimer wants to be the app for R&D tax credits, helping businesses to easily get money back from their R&D spend and at a fraction of the current cost, with a flat 5% fee.  As a quick explainer, R&D Tax Credits is a UK Government tax initiative designed to help companies to invest in R&D. The UK Gov can obviously do better job at explaini...
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