Impartial information and practical support

Better Business Finance provides impartial information about commercial finance to businesses, entrepreneurs and their partners. Whether your business is starting up, looking to develop and grow, or exporting abroad, the Better Business Finance website is here to help. The website includes:
Easier access to banking

Easier access to banking for businesses

Our impartial and advertising-free Business Bank Account Finder helps you to browse business current accounts easily and filter the results based on your business needs.
Help with an application

Help with an application

From creating a business plan to approaching a finance provider for support or appealing a decision, the website contains lots of tips and suggestions to help improve access to finance for businesses.
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Types of business finance

Understanding your options, how the different finance products work and which ones could be most suitable for the needs of your business is essential. This section highlights over 20 different financial and investment options.
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Finding finance

The Better Business Finance Finder enables you to complete one application to find the right funding for your business from hundreds of providers, with no impact on your credit footprint – you can choose who YOU want to deal with.

Better Business Finance was originally created to bring to life the recommendations of the Business Finance Taskforce, set up by the major banks to work together to help support the UK’s small and medium-sized businesses who are vital to our economy.

Improving transparency and understanding

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This includes helping businesses understand different types of finance, explaining the processes that businesses looking for finance will need to go through and working with partners to improve service delivery in banks and finance providers.

Improving customer relationships

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Improving relationships with business customers by signposting to sources of business support, including mentoring, to information about types of finance and also the appeals process available to businesses that have been refused finance by certain banks.

Improving access to finance

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The commercial finance industry in the UK is diverse, innovative and evolving, with many different types and providers of finance. You can go to a provider directly, use our finance finder tool, or the large banks run a referral process to these other providers and finance options, where appropriate.

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