Yet the solid respectability of Greensill Capital’s office overlooking the Savoy hotel in London conceals the workaday reality of the company, which has more than 1m small business clients in 50 countries. Greensill connects the businesses to investment banks and London’s capital markets. The co-founder and chief executive understands the problems of running a small business when cashflow is tight. Lex Greensill was raised on a sugar cane farm in Queensland, Australia. “My parents couldn’t afford to send me to university because we had to wait a long time for big retailers…

Source: The Times March 11, 2018 00:04 UTC