The traditional high street banks have controlled lending to SMEs for decades and are still responsible for approximately 80% of all funding to smaller businesses today.  Despite this clear dominance of the SME lending market, many smaller and medium-sized enterprises in the Technology, Media and Telecommunications (TMT) sector find themselves turned down by mainstream banks for failing to meet bank lending criteria.

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