To celebrate International Women’s Day 2022, we met with Lynne Darcey Quigley, founder and CEO at Scottish fintech Know-it. Lynne, when did you decide to become an entrepreneur and why? From a young age I knew I wanted to run my own business. I’ve always been hardworking and was a skilled credit management consultant so …

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Business Gateway has helped an automated credit management platform launch its first product, released in September this year. Know-it is a credit management platform, based in Glasgow, which helps give small businesses the ability to mitigate credit risk, increase cashflow and reduce debtor days. Their eponymous new product has three functions; Check-it, Chase-it, Collect-it and …

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What are the top red flags to spot when faced with suppliers who won’t pay invoices on deadline? Wouldn’t it be fantastic if you could predict which customers or suppliers are likely to pay late, if at all? Yet you can bypass any issues and spot behaviour patterns by developing the skill to identify these …

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Business Gateway has helped an automated credit management platform Know-it launch its first product, released in September this year. Know-it is a credit management platform, based in Glasgow, which helps give small businesses the ability to mitigate credit risk, increase cashflow and reduce debtor days. Their eponymous new product has three functions; Check-it, Chase-it, Collect-it …

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BUSINESS Gateway has helped an automated credit management platform launch its first product, released in September this year.  Know-it is a credit management platform, based in Glasgow, which helps give small businesses the ability to mitigate credit risk, increase cashflow and reduce debtor days. Their eponymous new product has three functions; Check-it, Chase-it, Collect-it and …

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Fluctuations in interest rates can be baffling for small businesses, and some may even think that they won’t be affected. Lynne Darcey Quigley, Founder and CEO of Know-it, explains what the new figures really mean – and it’s not all bad news. Interest rates have now climbed from 0.1% to 0.25%. It’s the most significant rise …

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Fluctuations in interest rates can be baffling for small businesses. Lynne Darcey Quigley, CEO of Know-it, explains what the new figures really mean – and it’s not all bad news. For the first time in a long time, the Bank of England has increased interest rates. Interest rates have now climbed from 0.1% to 0.25%. It’s the most …

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Digital transformation promises higher revenues, but SMEs are hardly rushing to change. Despite the various benefits of digital transformation, small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the UK are dragging their feet, new research suggests. According to a report from UK-based bank NatWest, based on a survey of 1,000 SMEs, only a fifth are open to …

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Just one in five small businesses in the UK is open to digital transformation, despite it making them two and a half times more likely to experience a 20 percent or more increase in revenue. The finding comes from NatWest bank’s latest Springboard to Recovery report which is based on research from a survey of 1,000 small …

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Only a fifth of smaller businesses are “tech-savvy” despite the potential boost to turnover, a new survey suggests. Royal Bank of Scotland parent NatWest’s Springboard to Recovery report found that tech is more critical than ever to the success of an SME (small and medium-sized enterprise), yet “far too few” businesses are open to modern …

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