Finance

Stop Funding Tariffs and Supply-Chain Costs With Your Own Cash 0
- Finance
- September 24, 2026
Tariffs, freight surcharges and changing supplier routes do not arrive as a neat line in your cash forecast. They show up as slightly more expensive stock, a larger deposit, an invoice due before the goods sell, and a bank balance that feels tighter than last month’s revenue suggests it should. Citi’s 2026 global supply-chain finance
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Digital Payments Are Becoming Part of Your Credit Story 0
- Finance, Startups, Technology
- September 17, 2026
Lenders are trying to answer one question: can this business reliably turn activity into cash? For a long time, their best clues were formal financial statements, collateral and a long credit history. Useful clues, certainly—but not ones every young or small business has. Increasingly, the way customers pay you is becoming another piece of evidence.
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Your Business May Be Financeable Before It Is “Bankable”0
- Finance, Leadership
- September 10, 2026
Being declined for a conventional bank loan can feel like a verdict on your business. It usually is not. It means a particular lender, using a particular model, could not lend on those terms at that moment. That distinction matters more in 2026. The OECD reports that SME borrowing costs remain high relative to before
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Stop Building Your Business Plan Around Rate Cuts That May Not Arrive 0
- Finance, Startups
- September 4, 2026
There is a seductive line in almost every difficult business forecast: “Things should ease when rates come down.” Perhaps they will. Perhaps they will not, at least not on the timeline your business needs. Either way, a plan that only works after a cheaper future arrives is not a plan. It is a request to
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Your Biggest Cash-Flow Problem May Be the Invoice You Already Earned 0
- Finance, Startups
- August 27, 2026
Nothing makes a business owner feel more cheated by mathematics than being profitable and short of cash at the same time. You made the sale. You delivered the work. You sent the invoice. Your accounts show revenue. Yet payroll is approaching, suppliers need paying and the bank balance is having a rather different conversation with
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Venture Capital Is Booming. That Does Not Mean Your Startup Will Find It Easier to Raise 0
- Finance, Startups
- August 20, 2026
Global venture capital has a headline problem: the numbers look wonderfully optimistic from a distance and much less democratic when you get close. In 2025, AI firms attracted USD 258.7 billion—61% of global venture-capital investment, according to the OECD. Mega-deals over USD 100 million made up 73% of AI investment value, while deals above USD
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