Today’s Financial Times features this letter (registration required) from Responsible Finance board member, Peter Udale.
Udale cites surveys suggesting half a million SMEs may not survive the year ahead.
To survive and grow businesses depend on access to affordable finance, says Udale, who contrasts banks’ preparation to pay dividends and bonuses with “their responsibility and self-interest in supporting the wider economy.”
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