08.09.2012
The sixth survey of the Investec Entrepreneur Confidence Index, covered yesterday by Real Business magazine, shows encouraging ambitions from respondents for business growth – but found that only six per cent of respondents to the survey expected accessing capital for their growth plans to be easy.
Ed Cottrell, Head of Investec’s Growth & Acquisition Finance team, emphasised that access to finance remains a main barrier to business growth, and that business leaders in the UK find it consistently difficult to come by the capital they need to take their company to the next level.
The forthcoming CDFA Conference will cover scaling up the CDFI sector to meet demand from businesses for appropriate finance. View the Conference programme