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By BPM Team
London, 20 October 2026 – Ignite Funding Partners (Ignite) today enters the UK lending market to fund proven UK businesses, offering tailored lending facilities of between £1 million and £25 million to support organic growth, acquisition, ownership transition and refinancing strategies. To support this, £500 million of lending capital is being … [Read More...]

Is a Narrowing Spread the Same as a Closed Gap?
By BPM Team
Officials tend to treat a narrower spread as proof the underlying problem is solved. Nigeria's 2026 data argues against collapsing those two things into one, and the gap between them is bigger than a single reporting cycle can show. Two Different Claims Get Treated as One Spreads narrow whenever the official and parallel rates move closer … [Read More...]

How to Handle Late Payments: Systems, Not Awkward Emails
By BPM Team
A late invoice does not become awkward on day 31. It becomes awkward when nobody knows what happens next. One team member sends a gentle note, another waits because the client is important, and the owner finally steps in after the balance has aged for weeks. By then, the conversation carries more pressure than it needed to. A collections system … [Read More...]

Trusting and letting go: Benefits of Delegation
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A Good Benefits Package Starts with Listening to Employees
By BPM Team
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The Hidden Costs of Manual Business Processes and How SMEs Can Reduce Them
By BPM Team
Manual work becomes expensive when the same information has to be entered, checked, explained, and corrected several times. For a small business, the first improvement is often to remove an unnecessary handoff or establish one reliable record. Automation is more useful once the team agrees on how the work should move. The hidden cost is rarely a … [Read More...]
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More than 3,100 companies using ‘AI’ in their name registered in 2026, study finds
By BPM Team
The UK’s AI branding boom is accelerating, with new research revealing that the number of companies registering with ‘AI’ in their names has increased by more than 250% over the past two years. That’s according to the business lawyers at LegalVision, who analysed current and historical Companies House data to explore the shifts in corporate […]

Hyphenate raises $45M Series A following 86x revenue growth as CFOs move to autonomous finance
By BPM Team
Hyphenate’s customer base grew 11x in 12 months, including six public companies, and its self-learning agents now run 90% of routine finance work across the platform. New York City, NY – October 27, 2026; The first wave of finance AI helped teams work faster. The next is taking responsibility for the work itself. Hyphenate, the […]

Black Ore Unveils Robust Tax Automation for Small Firms
By BPM Team
Black Ore for Small Firms lets a 20-person firm take on more clients without adding headcount, with native integrations into Intuit tax software systems. LAS VEGAS / AUSTIN, Texas – October 27, 2026; Black Ore, the AI platform for financial services, today launched Black Ore for Small Firms, a version of its Tax Autopilot platform […]

Colare launches to help hardtech industries hire the right engineers, the first time.
By BPM Team
Colare is the first technical screening platform for critical industries such as aerospace, manufacturing, energy and more that helps to validate hires faster. Working with multi billion dollar space companies to seed stage startups to find their first hire, it has launched with a $2.5M round to scale the first hiring platform designed around real-world […]
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By BPM Team
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By BPM Team
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