Companies at a loss about financing

There’s not a lot new about the fact that German corporates need to think about reassessing their funding mix, but a new survey by Siemens Financial Services suggests that their best ideas about how to go about this are not good enough.

The survey compares the experiences of 500 large Mittelstand companies and SMEs in Germany, France, the UK and US with an annual turnover of more than e50 million, the sort of companies that, in theory, should have all types of financing available to them.