finance

• Peer to peer funding

  Individuals can borrow and lend money without using the bank
• Other businesses 


  A business agrees a loan with another company or allowing the other company to buy a share of the business in exchange for investment
• Angel investor 


  Investors who back a business before it has opened
• Debt factoring

  Sell its debtors to a specialist debt collectors
• Grants 


  Some companies can benefit from government funds if their activities are in the national or local public interest
• Sale and leaseback 


  Sale of an asset to a financial company which makes the asset available to the business on a leased basis