Shiona Davies – BDRC Continental

Shiona Davies

Director and Author of the SME Finance Monitor

BDRC Continental

About BDRC Continental

BDRC Continental is an award winning insight agency. We help our clients get closer to their customers by translating data into business intelligence. We do this through our range of market-leading insight tools, a dedicated suite of advanced analytics and over two decades of experience working with leading service sector brands across the globe.

About our business expert, Shiona Davies

Shiona Davies is the author of the SME Finance Monitor, a quarterly report looking into SMEs and their access to finance. This independent report, published by BDRC Continental, is used by government, banks and business groups to inform the debate around lending to SMEs and has been quoted widely in the national and international press.

Shiona speaks regularly at events and conferences on SMEs and bank lending to small businesses, and has recently started working with the Enterprise Research Centre based at Warwick University, a new hub for research on the SME and policy landscape. Shiona’s background is in financial services.

Since joining BDRC Continental in January 2000, she has been involved in a number of major assignments for financial and public sector clients, including major tracking studies for HSBC and the Business Finance Taskforce.

She has also worked for all the major high street banks, and works regularly on consumer and B2B finance issues, developing a good understanding of key financial issues and the role of support and advice in improving consumer financial capability.

Prior to this, Shiona worked at NatWest, initially providing support to managers responsible for companies with turnover £1-100m and dealing with these companies on a day-to-day basis.

For her last five years at the bank she worked in the Market Research department where she was responsible for both undertaking and commissioning research among these corporate customers.

Shiona’s Business Advice Articles

• Coming Soon

Shiona Davies’ Blog Posts

• Demand v. Supply Side Issues in SME Finance – Some Evidence to Consider
• Do SMEs Have an Unfulfilled Wish to Borrow?
• Not All SMEs Want to Borrow Money
• Personal Funds Also Supporting SMEs
• The SME Market: One Size Does Not Fit All
• Top Tips on Steps SMEs can take before Applying for Finance

Shiona Davies’ Areas of Business Expertise

• Business Strategy

For more information

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