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In the economic sense, leverage is the process by which a company individual, entrepreneur or investor is able to greatly improve the return on an investment by way of the use of borrowed cash.
In 2015, our members provided £110 billion of new finance. £81 billion of this was in the form of consumer credit to help purchases ranging from vehicles to household goods and £29 billion was provided to businesses and the public sector, representing almost 32% of UK investment in machinery, gear and purchased computer software in the UK last year.
And the important players in that are not just central banks, but the whole industrial banking sector. Simply because truly, it is not like most cash claims take the form of physical notes any more. Most are information entries, binary code imprints on hard drives of computers within information centres controlled by industrial banks. The act of …
Essential Enabling Technologies (KETs) are a cornerstone for innovation in Europe’s economy and SusChem was heavily involved with the development of the European Commission’s policy in this region. KETs are critical drivers of innovation, growth and industrial competitiveness in Europe. About 10 000 smaller sized to medium-sized companies in Europe, like many developing sustainable chemistry solutions, base their businesses on the improvement and commercialisation of KETs. The European Investment Bank (EIB) has just published a study that testimonials access-to-finance conditions met by companies investing in KETs and proposes nine recommendations to increase conditions.
In a continent beset by several crises, Greece remains the cradle of European dysfunction. The country may have dropped out of the headlines in recent months, its multiple challenges seemingly buried beneath a tide of bailout cash. However it still presents the greatest danger to the survival of the eurozone. That is because Greece’s circumstances oblige the eurozone to do some thing it has so far appeared incapable of carrying out, except below situations of extreme economic tension: take a collective political selection.







