1 MIN READ30 Jun 2025
Timing is everything: help your SME clients prepare for seasonal...
As a finance broker, your SME clients look to you for more than access to funding—they rely on your insights to stay...
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Banjo makes it easier for businesses to access the finance they need to move forward. Taking them to the next chapter in their development and success.
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1 MIN READ12 May 2025
How brokers can chart a course for their SME clients
Business isn’t always easy for Australia’s small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). But if there is a quality...
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1 MIN READ30 Apr 2025
In Focus: How to steer your SME clients to growth
As Australia’s small and medium-sized enterprises navigate myriad challenges, brokers are playing an important role...
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1 MIN READ17 Apr 2025
Finance brokers - help your SME clients before upcoming tax pain
A tax debt whack could be on the way for small and medium-sized businesses. Finance brokers can play a key role...
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1 MIN READ1 Apr 2025
From banker to broker – getting an edge in alternative finance
Bankers are becoming finance brokers. It’s a natural shift, but there are things to know as you move from traditional...
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1 MIN READ28 Feb 2025
Smart strategies for SMEs to repay their loan
The top of the year is a great time to get your clients reflecting on their...
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1 MIN READ31 Oct 2024
Explaining credit files to your clients – a lender’s perspective
As a broker, you’re no doubt working with credit files on a weekly, if not daily, basis. As well as providing...
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1 MIN READ25 Sep 2024
Navigating Business Cashflow - The Blood Test for Brokers
Understanding cashflow forecasting makes you a trusted adviser to both borrower and lender. Someone to guide the SME to...
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1 MIN READ17 Jul 2024
Fraud prevention tips for brokers and their clients
At a cost of over $2 billion for Australian businesses in 2023, fraud is ever-present. As a broker, you're...
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1 MIN READ17 Jun 2024
Beginning of Financial Year 2025. Tips To Hit The Reset Button
As the new financial year approaches, brokers play an essential role in guiding their clients through key financial...
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1 MIN READ1 Jun 2024
Steering SMEs through chopping waters
Non-bank lenders like Banjo Loans have been taking the helm when it comes to helping SMEs access the finance they need....
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1 MIN READ26 May 2024
It takes a village – brokers’ vital role in Aussie business...
The 2024 Banjo SME Compass reveals changing attitudes among SMEs on sources of funding; and why a finance broker can be...
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1 MIN READ10 May 2024
In Focus: Steering SMEs through choppy waters
In this episode of In Focus, partnered by Banjo Loans, we’re chatting to chief executive officer Guy Callaghan to...
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1 MIN READ27 Mar 2024
SMEs buckling up and staying the course
Australian SMEs are driving through very challenging economic terrain. Banjo’s SME Compass 2024 findings reveal some...
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1 MIN READ5 Mar 2024
The Seven Skills that SMEs need to thrive in 2024
The popular belief is that an SME owner needs expertise in their field and business acumen. But their sustained success...
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1 MIN READ5 Dec 2023
How to get your growth-stage SME client funding-ready
When prepping your SME customer to apply for funding, first ask them the right questions.
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1 MIN READ27 Nov 2023
Funding through SME hypergrowth and beyond
How can you spot when your SME clients are approaching hypergrowth? Here’s how to identify the signs, help them...
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1 MIN READ15 Nov 2023
Riding the El Niño Wave - How Businesses Can Keep Their Cool
Leverage the onset of El Niño to highlight opportunities for your SME...
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1 MIN READ25 Oct 2023
When The Going Gets Tough, The Tough Get Proactive
When your client is under pressure, they might choose to ignore or avoid looming debt problems in their business....
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1 MIN READ8 Oct 2023
Serviceability of loans is more than a numbers game
Banjo digs into the details of serviceability of business loans, so you can make better applications for your...
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1 MIN READ26 Sep 2023
Ignoring Cyber Security Could Cost Your Business Dearly
If you think cyber criminals wouldn’t bother to target Australian small businesses, you’d be quite wrong. Banjo...
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1 MIN READ11 Sep 2023
How To Ensure Your Deal Makes The Cut
Banjo lifts the lid on why some business loan applications get rejected, and what you can do to make sure your clients...
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1 MIN READ30 Aug 2023
Understand the business lifecycle and unlock more opportunities
Banjo unpacks the SME business lifecycle to help you work out where your clients sit, and what alternative funding...
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1 MIN READ11 Aug 2023
Savvy entrepreneurs prioritise business over home ownership
Fifty years ago the great Aussie achievement was to own a home in the lucky country. Now many younger business owners...
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1 MIN READ28 Jul 2023
Rise against the machine – why authenticity has the edge over AI
As SME businesses improve their efficiency by using machine learning, what will it take to have a competitive...
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1 MIN READ17 Jul 2023
BOFY can be a game changer
There’s a good chance your customers (or you) are a bit exhausted right now, having been frantically getting all...
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1 MIN READ30 Jun 2023
Combining working capital and asset finance to work smarter
As a seasoned commercial finance broker, you undoubtedly have several hard-working SME (small to medium enterprise)...
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1 MIN READ9 Jun 2023
Tax time – tips to confidently grow the business finance...
We’re staring down the barrel of tax year end, so now is a good opportunity to talk to your small and medium...
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1 MIN READ1 Jun 2023
Helping your SME clients squeeze into the tight labour market
In the current compressed labour market, are your SME clients struggling to compete with more highly resourced...
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1 MIN READ11 May 2023
You spoke, we listened - the quick, easy asset finance loan you asked...
As many brokers know, although asset finance is in demand all year round, it peaks between May and July, given the...
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1 MIN READ24 Apr 2023
SMEs UPBEAT, READY TO FUND AND LOOKING FOR BROKERS
The SME landscape is ripe with opportunities for brokers, as a new survey finds they’ve leapt up the charts as...
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1 MIN READ30 Mar 2023
SMARTER WAYS TO DEAL WITH TAX DEBT
By Guy Callaghan, CEO, Banjo Loans. If your small business client has a tax debt, there are several ways to tackle it...
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1 MIN READ19 Jan 2023
Tales from the asset finance front: “It’s all about the...
Asset and equipment finance can be one of the most flexible and cost-effective ways for your clients to get the...
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1 MIN READ22 Nov 2022
CYBER SECURITY – HOW YOU AND YOUR CLIENTS CAN PROTECT YOUR BUSINESS
The recent Optus and Medibank data breaches have brought home the fact that malicious cybercriminals can and do target...
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1 MIN READ31 Oct 2022
Avoiding insolvency – understand the warning signs and lower your...
Whether the predicted global recession reaches Australia or not, small business insolvencies and payment defaults have...
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1 MIN READ29 Sep 2022
Help your clients recession-proof their business
Whether it’s inflation, property values, employment levels, new car sales or copper prices, there are as many...
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1 MIN READ20 Jun 2022
Inflation, interest rates and the economy in 2022 and beyond
Banjo had the privilege of hosting Alan Oster, Group Chief Economist at National Australia Bank (NAB) on our recent...
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1 MIN READ24 May 2022
SMEs ready to fight inflation, and how they’ll do it
Many SMEs didn’t need a crystal ball to predict that inflation was coming, and are using different strategies to...
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1 MIN READ16 May 2022
CHALLENGE ACCEPTED – SMEs INVEST THEIR WAY OUT OF A TOUGH YEAR
A strong theme is emerging from two consecutive years of Banjo’s annual SME Compass research among the leaders of...
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1 MIN READ1 Mar 2022
Banjo Loan's new breed of financial products
Banjo Loans supports and closely works with finance brokers to help fund their SME clients faster. We aim to make it...
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1 MIN READ14 Sep 2021
How you can help your SMEs clients fund a merger or acquisition
Banjo discusses various methods available to fund a merger or acquisition for your SME clients looking to expand their...
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1 MIN READ16 Jun 2021
Tips to ensure you and your clients are fully prepped for this EOFY
As you already are aware, most of the Government grants have come to an end and ATO is tightening their post COVID-19...
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1 MIN READ7 Jun 2021
Research finds SMEs set for growth, ready to drive up revenue
SMEs are recovering well from a difficult year, and signs are pointing to a positive economic environment for FY22. In...
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