What other opportunities might Babcock pursue in the UK Meanwhile analysts were pushing for more international expansion but efforts at building business in South Africa Canada and Australia had been slow with only of revenues coming from outside the UK in a figure little changed since . What would drive Babcock s long term future growth Growth itself also posed challenges. Babcock relied heavily on informal processes to extract synergies across its portfolio.
Would this continue to be effective as the scope of operations continued to expand Meanwhile analysts were concerned about succession. Rogers and many of the leadership team were approaching retirement. Where would the nextThe State of Small Business Lending Credit Access During the Recovery and How Technology May Change the Game by Karen Mills Chinese Overseas America Number Data and Brayden McCarthy Small businesses are core to US economic competitiveness. Not only do they employ half of the nation s private sector workforce about million people but also since they have created approximately two‐thirds of the net new jobs in the country. Yet in recent years small businesses have been slow to recover from the recession and credit crisis that hit them especially hard.
This lag has prompted the question Is there a credit gap in small business lending In this paper the authors compile and analyze the current state of access to bank capital for small business from the best available sources. impact of the recession on small business and access to credit and several structural issues that impede the full recovery of bank credit markets for smaller loans. They argue that the online banking market is likely to continue to grow disrupting traditional ways of lending to small businesses. This will create both opportunities and risks for policymakers and regulators.