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Small Business Metrics: Banking for Small Businesses in the UK
Finaccord, Sep 2008, Pages: 315
Finaccord’s report titled Small Business Metrics: Banking for Small Businesses in the UK is one of two flagship publications in the Small Business Metrics series developed in conjunction with IMRS. Based on an on-line survey of 1,575 small business owners and self-employed individuals carried out in June and July 2006, the study provides fresh and detailed insights into the market for providing a range of business banking services to the approximately 4.4 million businesses with fewer than 50 employees in the UK.
In addition to providing a comprehensive analysis of the results across all respondents, the publication also breaks out the findings for key segments in the small business market, namely: building and construction businesses; cafés, hotels, pubs and restaurants; consumer and commercial service businesses; logistics, motor trade and transportation businesses; I.T. professionals; non-I.T. professionals; retailing businesses; home-based businesses; recently-established businesses (ie. those aged three years or less) and self-employed individuals. Furthermore, the research also provides clear answers to key issues in the market for banking for small businesses including their propensity to strike up relationships with more than one bank and their satisfaction with the various services offered by the bank offering their main business current account such as ease of contact with a business banking manager and interest rates offered on business accounts. As such, it constitutes the most comprehensive published source of intelligence on the UK's small business banking market.
What is the rationale?
A number of factors underpin the rationale for publishing the latest Small Business Metrics studies, including this report titled Small Business Metrics: Banking for Small Businesses in the UK. First and foremost is the fact that the market for banking and insurance services promoted to small businesses is substantial given that there are around 4.66 million enterprises with fewer than 100 employees in the UK. Indeed, around 99.7% of registered businesses in the can be classified as small businesses if these are defined as enterprises with fewer than 100 employees.
In addition, the market for small business financial services, like that for consumer financial services, is subject to rapid change. As the UK’s small business sector thrives and expands, it results in a community with more complex requirements in the domain of banking and insurance. Moreover, the increasing use of the Internet by consumers for financial services acquisition is mirrored in the small business sector, a development which opens up new opportunities for incumbent and aspiring providers of banking and insurance services to this segment.
Finally, use of the Tpoll Internet panel of small business owners allows both for a more detailed investigation than that which would be possible through conventional market research techniques and is of a magnitude that can yield credible results for key segments within the market for small businesses and self-employed individuals as well as an aggregate analysis.
What are some of the principal metrics gathered?
Frequency of requirement of small businesses for: asset finance and leasing; business credit cards; business current accounts in pounds sterling; business current accounts in foreign currency; business deposit accounts; business investment accounts; bonds or funds; business overdrafts; card payment processing using a standard hand-held terminal; card payment processing using an on-line processing service; commercial mortgages; factoring; international payments; invoice discounting / cash flow finance; secured commercial loans; and unsecured commercial loans.
Performance benchmarking for: Abbey; Alliance & Leicester; Barclays; Co-operative Bank; HBOS (incorporating Bank of Scotland and Halifax); HSBC; Lloyds TSB; National Australia Group (incorporating Clydesdale Bank and Yorkshire Bank); NatWest; RBS; and other smaller banks. Market share data for primary and secondary banking relationships also supplied for other organisations including: AIB; Bank of Ireland; Handelsbanken; and Nationwide Building Society.
Satisfaction of small businesses with: accessibility / opening hours of bank branches; breadth / quality of business financial services offered; breadth / quality of extra services offered; ease of contact with a business banking manager; frequency of contact with a business banking manager; personal contact with a named business banking manager; charges levied on business accounts; interest rates offered on business accounts; ease of use of Internet banking service; and security associated with Internet banking service.
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