CBILS

We speak to entrepreneurs who took CBILS help

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Has the Coronavirus Business Interruption Loan Scheme been a success? We speak to entrepreneurs who decided to take on the debt £11.85billion has been lent to UK businesses via CBILS since its launch in March Many have had managed to get a loan quickly and easily to keep their business going while others have struggled … Read more

ALEX BRUMMER: Blackwell takes the reins at Lloyds amid CBILS concerns

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Lord Blackwell is not known as the most activist chairman of a High Street bank.  But as someone who once worked in Downing Street under the gaze of Margaret Thatcher, the Lloyds Bank boss has well-tuned political antennae.  By the time be had succeeded Win Bischoff as chairman in 2014, the bank’s chief executive Antonio … Read more