Seminar Series: Access to Finance for SMEs

Together with colleagues from Bournemouth University, University of Brighton, Aston University and the University of Nottingham, Professor Andy Mullineux is running a series of seminars addressing access to finance for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs).

The seminars will bring together keynote speakers from academia, government agencies and industry in order to discuss the most pertinent issues of SME finance and of credit risk, with a view to developing new research and policy agendas relevant to lenders and regulators.

Lending to SMEs is at the top of the agenda for governments around the world. With various political and economic incentives introduced to support SMEs, it is important not to overlook the practicalities of institutional arrangements for access to finance, especially in the environment of prudent lending.

Future dates:

• 22 March 2016, Birmingham. "Access to Finance for Ethnic Minority Enterprises",  please register with Beulah Joyce Corbett.
• 19-20 May 2016, Brighton. "Has the SME Finance landscape fundamentally changed post-GFC? And what does the future hold?" Please register with Christopher Matthews.
• September 2016, London