Over one million small businesses do not use a business account

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Over one million small businesses are shunning specialist accounts in favour of retail accounts, which typically offer better rates on balances and overdrafts and don't have transaction fees.

Over a million prompted to consider their own entrepreneurial ideas

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The television show ‘The Apprentice' could inadvertently be responsible for a whole new generation of wannabe entrepreneurs, according to new research from Direct Line for Business.   Despite being a competition to earn an apprenticeship under Sir Alan, over a million viewers (16 per cent**) said the show made them consider their own entrepreneurial ideas.