For SME owners holding commercial property in a pension, the inheritance tax changes arriving in April 2027 raise a practical question: where will the cash to pay the bill come from?

Charlotte Staerck, co-founder and CEO of The Handbag Clinic, on the lesson she learned after cutting her marketing budget by two-thirds – and why the rules that apply to scaling a mass-market business do not apply to a niche one

John Healey, Chancellor of the Exchequer, has a golden opportunity to show Britain’s SMEs that he’s on our side. Will he fumble the ball?

As the Chancellor prepares to deliver the Autumn Budget, CIMA’s Building a Better Business report reveals a significant gap between the challenges policymakers focus on and those businesses actually face – and sets out what needs to change

Seven years after its US stock market debut, Freedom Holding Corp has grown from a single-market brokerage into an international group spanning banking, insurance, telecommunications and consumer technology

Glenn Collins, Head of Technical and Strategic Engagement at ACCA UK, argues that SME confidence is recovering from a low base, and sets out three tests the Chancellor’s Budget must pass to protect that fragile momentum

While well executed in parts, Companies House’s identity verification roll-out has exposed a problem: blanket rules are overcomplicating compliance for solo-founders and micro-businesses

Millions of the small businesses Britain relies on every day are operating with less visibility, support and recognition than they deserve. Kate Hayward, UK Managing Director of Xero, argues that changing that starts with a conversation

Charlie Mullins OBE, founder of Pimlico Plumbers, argues that decades of prioritising university over apprenticeships have left businesses short of skilled people and young people short of practical opportunity – and that the solution is straightforward if ministers are willing to act on it

Exceptional people build great businesses. Turning their expertise into lasting capability builds real value

Rupert Lee-Browne, CEO of Caxton, argues that the Commercial Payments Bill’s 60-day payment rule is welcome news for SMEs – but only if they use the breathing space to overhaul their own payment processes first

Better to look at the whole picture and see everyone as customers