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Has the tide turned for UK flotations?

Years of decline have hollowed out London’s listing market, but founders, banks and ministers are quietly pushing for a revival

How iwoca is aiming to reshape business finance in the UK

Co-founder Christoph Rieche on scaling iwoca and the long-term value of staying the course

Rio Ferdinand: How to win at business pitches

The former Manchester United and England footballer on how to convince people to back your business ideas

What it really takes to turn growth into scale

Investor Saul Klein explains why the UK’s innovation economy is thriving but still faces a critical scaling challenge

How do you solve a problem like scale-up lending?

Digital bank OakNorth is in the vanguard of new banks backing fast-growing businesses. We speak to its chief executive Rishi Khosla

Why most businesses fail before they find product market fit

Coffee Nation founder Martyn Dawes on product market fit, persistence and building a business that actually works

How Marshmallow's tennis twins served up a £1.5bn fintech success

Oliver Kent-Braham, one of the twins behind the fintech unicorn Marshmallow, applied his early success in tennis to building one of the UK’s fastest-growing companies