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Insights for running
an incorporated business.
Product-neutral briefings from the Creditcorp group on the wider craft of running and financing a UK company — governance, cash flow, funding choices and group structure. No sales pitch: just the thinking a director actually needs.
Creditcorp is the growing name for the Credicorp group. Alongside the lending we do, we work with company owners every day — so we see the questions that come up long before, and long after, a finance decision.
These Insights collect that thinking in one place. They are deliberately product-neutral: unlike the Learn guides, which explain how our own finance works, each briefing here takes a topic every UK director meets — a legal duty, a planning tool, a funding decision, a structural choice — and sets it out plainly, so you can act on it whether or not you ever borrow a penny.
They are general information, not legal, tax or financial advice: for a decision specific to your company, take advice from a qualified professional. When you are ready to look at short-term company finance, the products live on the lender's own site, credicorp.co.uk.
Read a briefing
Each briefing stands on its own. Start with the question in front of you.
A director's seven duties under the Companies Act 2006
The statutory duties every UK company director owes — and the practical decisions where they actually bite.
Read the briefingThe 13-week cash-flow forecast, explained
Why the rolling 13-week model is the tool lenders, investors and turnaround advisers reach for first — and how to build one.
Read the briefingDebt or equity? Choosing how to fund growth
A clear framework for deciding whether to borrow, raise equity, or blend the two as your company scales.
Read the briefingHolding companies and subsidiaries: how group structures work
What a group structure is, why owners use one, and the governance that keeps a holding company and its subsidiaries clean.
Read the briefingLooking for the finance itself?
Insights is the product-neutral half of our writing. For plain-English explainers of the Credicorp products — bridging loans, the Flex revolving facility and invoice-linked Slice — head to the Learn hub, or see them on the lender at credicorp.co.uk.
One group, built for company owners.
Read the briefings here, the product guides on Learn, or head to the lender when you are ready.