Small Business Finance Blog
Small Business Finance Blog for Australian SMEs sharing trends and tips to help grow your business. Highlighting debt and equity opportunities, challenges and solutions.

Fintech Changing World of Finance
For small businesses, these new forms of finance are exciting new avenues to support their growth and scale. For those who can adapt to the new normal, they’ll find that this technology acts as a key leverage point for long-term growth.

10 Reasons the Bank won’t lend you money
UPDATE AUGUST 2021. It’s never been more clear that money is the lifeblood of any SME. The COVID-19 pandemic has demonstrated, once again, that cash is king. You can have all the growth in the world but if you don’t have a strong cashflow cycle, you’re in trouble. This can be frustrating when small business owners are denied again and again by banks when the application seems totally reasonable to you, especially if they’re not clear about their reasons for rejection. Application Denied – Understanding Why Banks Won’t Lend to You and What You Can Do About It.

How Trade Finance can Rescue your Cash Flow
Trade Finance to the rescue, as we have heard again and again that ‘Cash is King’. But that analogy only really sinks in when you find yourself in that all-too-familiar cash crunch.

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Small Business Struggling
Australian small business owners are struggling to survive into 2021. Most small or medium businesses don’t survive, even when times are good. So what happens when you throw a once-in-a-century pandemic into the mix. So how is Australian small business adapting after the horror of 2020?

Small Business and the Fintech Revolution
Fintech apps open up a whole new dimension for entrepreneurs which can take your unique small business to the very next level. These mind-blowing tools could assist effectively in managing your books, getting paid faster and interacting with your customers and employers.

5 Key Small Business trends to watch in 2018
Small business trends are well and truly into play for 2018, as we see these filter down into a number of key areas where SMEs should pay attention to. to. Australia's economic and political environment does impact all levels of society, whether individuals, families...

How to use Invoice Finance for Growth
Invoice finance is a business funding solution that helps to provide cash flow for growing businesses in an easy and affordable way. If preparing for a busy time of year or securing cash flow to take on new projects, then invoice finance is an ideal solution for...

Cash flow Management
Cash flow management is essential to small business finance requirements to provide continuity of trading and that it has sufficient funds to meet daily expenses and any debt payments due. The management of working capital involves managing these 4 aspects of the...

Is alternative capital a viable finance strategy?
Alternative finance offers a new solution to traditional small business finance such as constrained access to lending, higher productivity costs, training staff, managing legal and regulatory requirements which put an enormous strain on the companies...

$20,000 asset tax write-off extended another $10K
Extending the $20,000 asset tax write-off scheme to $30,000 is once again is another win for small business tax deductions. The Australian federal government’s recently announced 2019 budget on 2 April. Which continues the favorable environment for over three million Australian small business owners needing that helping hand to grow and prosper.

Invest in Australia
Australia is an attractive location for foreign investors to capitalise on a broad range of business and investment opportunities. The Australian Government welcomes foreign investment, and has an open foreign investment policy, therefore making it safe and secure for foreign investors to migrate, do business and invest in Australia.

Alternative Investment via SME Bonds
Alternative investment offers smart investors an alternative diversifying strategy for both shares and fixed income across various asset classes. When selecting the right mix in your portfolio it is crucial to consider your time to retirement, tolerance for risk, and...

ResiBonds for small-scale property projects
ResiBonds property development for small, medium and large-scale, real estate projects such as high-rise, land acquisition and sub-division and townhouse developments in major Australian locations from Brisbane to Perth. Issued by the developer, builder or renovator....

Diversify your SMSF portfolio with RESI Bonds
A new trend for self-managed-super-funds (SMSF) in Australia to grow their portfolio is through alternative capital investments. The baby boomer generation is rapidly reaching retirement age. Hence, there is widespread realization that your SUPER savings will not be...