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“Anil Stocker, co-founder of MarketInvoice, took part in an in-depth discussion of alternative finance on the BBC’s Bottom Line with Evan Davis. Evan met three pioneers of alternative finance and asked – can they beat the banks at their own game? Giles Andrews is CEO of Zopa, the peer to peer lending website; Anil Stocker is co-founder of MarketInvoice, an online finance provider that allows companies to turn invoices into working capital; and Michael Joseph is director of mobile money at Vodafone and former CEO of the Kenyan mobile phone provider Safaricom, where he launched the revolutionary mobile money transfer service, M-Pesa.”
- BBC Radio 4, 18 February 2013Listen to the coverage

“Small businesses can take advantage of the low borrowing rates in a new government scheme called ‘Funding for Lending.’ It works on the principle that the UK Government can borrow much more cheaply than small and medium sized companies, so in troubled times like now the Government should pass on the benefit of that lower borrowing cost to keep businesses afloat, that otherwise might not be able to.”
- BBC Radio 4, 1st August 2012Listen to the coverage

“The government has announced that as part of the Business Finance Partnership’s £500 million fund for small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs), £100 million will be distributed to alternative finance lenders. MarketInvoice will be applying for £30 million of government funding to go direct to SMEs.”
- BBC Radio 4, 31st May 2012Listen to the coverage

“This morning’s Breedon Report from the Government commissioned task force says small businesses should be looking at alternative ways of raising money. [...] The task force will unveil plans to set up a business finance advice network, more business to business lending and establishing a single body to bundle up and sell on small business loans and it’s also calling on bigger firms to help out the smaller ones by paying for services more quickly.”
- BBC Radio 4, 16th March 2012Listen to the coverage

“Anyone with a business will know just how hard it is at the moment to borrow money from a bank. Well, one way round that is to consider one of the many forms of alternative funding. Today saw the launch of an umbrella group of these called the Next Generation Finance Consortium.”
- Simon Mayo Drivetime, BBC Radio 2, 8th March 2012Listen to the coverage

“Late payment is a lethal thing for small businesses, even ones that appear to be quite healthy financially. [...] In tough economic times like these, people take longer to pay their bills because that is their way of protecting their own cash.”
- On the Money – Declan Curry, BBC Radio 5 Live, 31st July 2011
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