FinnCap: London is good and bad for growth funding

The chief executive of a leading mid-market London broker reckons there are more funding opportunities than ever for small and medium-sized UK firms, in spite of the pandemic. But she still wants changes to London’s listing rules.

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Sam Smith, CEO of London-based broker finnCap, has spent all her career thinking about how best to get access to funding for small and medium-sized companies. And, despite the coronavirus pandemic and the constant refrain of London’s unattractiveness to growth companies, she thinks there has never been a better time to raise funds.

Smith has plenty of perspective to back up that view. More than 20 years ago she was tasked to build a corporate finance function within JM Finn, at the age of 23.

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