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How can Parity help grow your business?
Posted on May 7, 2019
How can Parity help grow your business? An innovative platform to connect you to a new local market Parity offers small businesses a platform to access a new local market. It replicates highly successful networks in Italy and Switzerland, where 10,000s of businesses conduct €100millions of new trade each year. Parity connects you with new customers, opens up new trading opportunities and reduces your supply chain costs. It offers its members a zero interest credit facility, boosting liquidity and smoothing cash flow.
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An innovative financial model that supports sustainable development
Posted on Apr 16, 2019
An innovative financial model that supports sustainable development Sardex offers an interesting way to support sustainability Parity has been developed through studying different models around Europe, including Sardex in Sardinia. I originally went down this path looking for alternative financial mechanisms to support sustainable development. I initially was looking at the Bristol Pound, a local currency that gets a lot of positive media attention in the UK. Local currencies are often described as a model for supporting sustainable development.
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Parity explained through our first Birmingham transaction
Posted on Apr 15, 2019
Parity explained through our first Birmingham transaction Parity is first business credit network within the UK and uses a model that has proven highly successful in Switzerland and Italy. Last Tuesday we had our launch in Brindley Place, Birmingham that was well attended by individuals and organisations from across the region. The event hosted a demonstration of our technology, but also provided guests an outline of how Parity works. We actually had our first transactions between two companies on our platform.
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Launch of Parity in Birmingham
Posted on Apr 11, 2019
Launch of Parity in Birmingham UK’s first business credit network launched in the West Midlands Parity hosted its launch event on Tuesday 9th of April at the NatWest Accelerator in Brindley Place, Birmingham. It was well attended by stakeholders from across the West Midlands who were interested in how Parity could help small businesses. We are the first business credit network in the UK and aim to support the regional economy.
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Parity visits the annual Mitzas event in Sardinia and appears on Italian television
Posted on Nov 10, 2018
Parity visits the annual Mitzas event in Sardinia and appears on Italian television Parity is a business credit network that provides its users more trade and access to zero interest credit. The company is inspired by Sardex, which was originally set up in Sardinia, Italy in after 2008. In the ten years since Sardex’s initial creation, it has developed into a business credit network that has over 4500 users and had €40million worth of transactions in 2017.
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ART Business Loans - Annual General Meeting
Posted on Oct 2, 2018
ART Business Loans - Annual General Meeting Parity Network was honoured to be invited along to the ART Business Loans AGM on Friday 28th September. The event was hosted at the newish iCentrum building on Innovation Birmingham Campus. The event is held every year and brings together members and wider stakeholders of ART Business Loans. The organisation, originally called Aston Reinvestment Trust, is a cooperative that was formed in 1997 with the explicit aim to address the funding gap experienced by small companies in the West Midlands.
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Our talk at the Big Data Corridor Event at Innovation Birmingham Campus
Posted on Sep 13, 2018
Our talk at the Big Data Corridor Event at Innovation Birmingham Campus Parity is a business credit network that will provide businesses within the West Midlands with more clients and access to a zero interest credit facility. We have been supported by the Innovation Engine project at Innovation Birmingham, the region’s leading digital and technology community. Yesterday I was given the opportunity to present Parity to a small group of that community to gage the initial reactions.
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West Midlands Combined Authority Social Economy Taskforce
Posted on Sep 9, 2018
West Midlands Combined Authority Social Economy Taskforce Parity is developing a business to business mutual credit system that will launch in the West Midlands in 2019. Over the past six months we have been engaging with a wide range of stakeholders within the West Midlands. We have hoped to learn what the environment is like for small businesses, so we can ensure the service we are developing can best meet their needs.
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What is Parity?
Posted on May 9, 2018
What is Parity? What is it? Small businesses are the lifeblood of our modern economy. They make up 99% of all businesses in the UK and employ 60% of all workers. Small businesses are usually interested in taking on more clients and delivering more work. Unfortunately many of them find themselves overly reliant on big corporations for the chunk of their work. As seen in the West Midlands with the recent collapse of Carillion; when these fail, small companies and their employees are unduly affected.
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HomeTown Plus and Countercoin - Community Development Programme
Posted on May 8, 2018
HomeTown Plus and Countercoin - Community Development Programme Parity is developing a network that will allow small businesses to access zero interest finance and conduct more trade. The approach we are taking applies innovative financial technology within the West Midlands. We have been getting a huge amount of interest from national and international groups that recognise the potential for transacting in this way. This we had a call with Mike Riddell from Hometown Plus in Manchester, UK to discuss the project they are developing within their local business networks.
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2020
- A Local Business Community in Parity
- Shining a light on the ‘superstar’ businesses in the Jewellery Quarter
- Inclusive Economy
- The development of a local marketplace for business-owners in Birmingham to trade without cash
- August Business Networking Events
- Use a local currency to meet new customers for your professional services business
- A local currency to support digital and creative agencies to find new clients
- A local currency to increase footfall for Birmingham restaurants and bars
- Parity's response to coronavirus
- 1000 trades networking club
- March Business Networking Events
- Why Parity? Benfits of using this local currency
- Parity supports four local firms to transact without cash
- Is Parity like Bitcoin?
- February Business Networking Events
- How does Parity compare with Bristol Pound?
- Why is Parity a tool for Local Economic Resilience?
2019
- Parity app available in the app stores
- Why we use FreeAgent for our accounts software plus a referral code (49mrifmj)
- Visiting the Jewellery Quarter
- Jewellery Quarter Pubs
- Ten things you must know about Parity
- Business Networking Events in Birmingham, w/c 12 of August.
- Type of Business Network & Parity
- Business Networking Event. w/c 29 of July 2019
- Business Support for West Midlands Businesses
- Business Networking Events w/c 22nd July 2019.
- Best Coworking Spaces Birmingham
- Business Networking Events in West Midlands w/c 15th July 2019.
- Business Networking Events in Birmingham, West Midlands.
- How can Parity help grow your business?
- An innovative financial model that supports sustainable development
- Parity explained through our first Birmingham transaction
- Launch of Parity in Birmingham
2018
- Parity visits the annual Mitzas event in Sardinia and appears on Italian television
- ART Business Loans - Annual General Meeting
- Our talk at the Big Data Corridor Event at Innovation Birmingham Campus
- West Midlands Combined Authority Social Economy Taskforce
- What is Parity?
- HomeTown Plus and Countercoin - Community Development Programme
- BDCR Group SME Lending Report Q4 2017
- Chancellor announces measures to address late payments for UK SMEs
- MEBC Access to Finance Event
- The Development of Parity - Business Credit Network for the West Midlands
- Launch of the Midlands Engine Investment Fund
