Liverpool City Region: NW Fund chief floats city investment bank idea

THE chief executive of the North West Fund, set up to boost SME growth in the region, is calling for the city of Liverpool to set up its own investment bank.

Cliff Maylor argues such a move would empower the city council by allowing it to to underwrite major investment and infrastructure projects to further improve the local economy.

He believes a “City of Liverpool investment Bank”, using its own assets to
attract private money, will set a marker in the sand: "When capital is in short supply you n... You can carry on reading TheBusinessDesk.com for free, but you have reached the maximum number of pages an unregistered user can view. To register for an account, click here or login below...