UK Finance SME support plays a crucial role in helping small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) thrive in the UK economy. SMEs make up 99.9% of UK firms and are vital to innovation, employment, and growth. UK Finance works with its members including banks and financial institutions to provide guidance, tools, and standards that support business customers.
UK Finance work with their members and the industry to enhance competitiveness and facilitate innovation, and to promote initiatives which support business customers in areas such as lending, payments and fraud prevention. The industry standards include the Invoice Finance and Asset-based Professional Standards Framework.
They produce a range of guides to support SMEs and business customers, including our Small Business Current Account Guide.
They also publish monthly and quarterly statistics and analysis, including Business Finance Updates, Banking Support for SMEs and many more.
They offer business fraud prevention advice, including through the Take Five To Stop Fraud campaign. They also have a general learning hub, where details of events, training and webinars can be found. Visit the UK Finance website
