Bank Manager coming to see you? Do you need to think about this? Oh yes….. It’s true that some bank managers will undertake this visit with blinkers on and only look at your numbers. However we talent spot bankers and I have personally trained bank managers on how to undertake visits to business premises. A good [...]

Traditionally a formality. The days when the bank manager just said “do you want the same as last year?” have possibly gone the same way as the similarly now inappropriate barbers quote. Yet do you rely on that extension to your overdraft? Most businesses do – totally. So consider what your banker will have when he [...]

Privileged this week to be invited to Stamford Bridge by a bank (that will remain nameless) that had hired some of the ground, including the pitch, for a corporate event. I was lucky to be invited – not least as I sat next to the legendary Ron ‘Chopper’ Harris (who’s very much alive and still [...]

For some time I have had the wish for an efficient means of communicating with all the people who I regard as in my ‘inner circle’. These are the people (mainly professionals – mainly bankers and accountants) that I have actually done business with, either through Cornmill Associates or Stirling Partners Finance, and who I know [...]