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NatWest Cordially Accepted My Invitation for a Fireside Chat About Help and Support for Their BBL Customers, So I Turned Up at Their Offices in London with a Camera Crew To Discuss Those Topics, Also Invited Were the Business DebtLine and the Federation of Small Businesses

April 27, 2022

I recently rocked up at the offices of NatWest in London with a camera crew in tow and set about asking their team what help, and support is available to any of their customers who […]

Tom Scholar Permanent Secretary, HM Treasury Responds to Lord Agnew’s Claims, Revealing As He Does So That The Majority of Bounce Back Loan Recipients Details Will Not Be Made Public – However That Is Subject To An Appeal

April 1, 2022

You will find below a letter that Tom Scholar, Permanent Secretary, HM Treasury has written to Mel Stride the Chair of the Treasury Committee. Within it, Tom responds to the question of whether Bounce Back […]

As Resignations By People Associated with the Bounce Back Loan Scheme Increases, I Take a Look Back at The Top 10 Fraud Risks For The Bounce Back Loan Scheme As Reported by the National Audit Office

March 30, 2022

With Lord Agnew throwing his hands up in the air and choosing to resign his post as the Minister of State at the Cabinet Office and HM Treasury, one imagines allowing him to spend more […]

Three Missed Bounce Back Loan Repayments? That Is When That Magic May Just Happen

March 3, 2022

I have had plenty of feedback now regarding just what happens once you miss three Bounce Back Loan repayments to shine a light on just what happens next. A once dreaded snatch back type letter is […]

Sarah from BEIS Forced to Admit She Lied to the Public Accounts Committee and Confirms Bounce Back Loan Lenders Can Call on the Guarantee Rapidly if a Borrower Cannot Repay – Writing Off a Bounce Back Loan Quickly and Easily

February 24, 2022

It is always good to see Government departments dragged in and grilled for telling big wobbly lies, and that is what Sarah Munby from BEIS was forced to experience yesterday in front of the Public Accounts Committee, and she revealed how easy it is for a Bounce Back Loan lender to claim on the guarantee for a BBL that a borrower cannot repay. In a previous appearance […]