Anil Stocker: How I helped small firms cut out the banks

For Anil Stocker and Charlie Delingpole - co-founders of MarketInvoice - the financial crisis was a fantastic opportunity to get into the lending game.

For Anil Stocker, 28, and his former university friend Charlie Delingpole, 29, the financial crisis didn't spell disaster. In fact, it was a massive opportunity.

Stocker had worked in the private-equity departments of various investment banks investing in small and medium enterprises (SMEs). So he knew the problems these firms now faced. "During the good old days before the crisis it was easy for small businesses to get a £250,000 overdraft signed off. After the crisis things got much harder."

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James McKeigue

James graduated from Keele University with a BA (Hons) in English literature and history, and has a certificate in journalism from the NCTJ. James has worked as a freelance journalist in various Latin American countries.He also had a spell at ITV, as welll as wring for Television Business International and covering the European equity markets for the Forbes.com London bureau. James has travelled extensively in emerging markets, reporting for international energy magazines such as Oil and Gas Investor, and institutional publications such as the Commonwealth Business Environment Report. He is currently the managing editor of LatAm INVESTOR, the UK's only Latin American finance magazine.