Small businesses are a huge potential market place for providers of finance, and with almost half of all small businesses utilising bank lending of one kind or another, are a major source of revenue to the banking community. Small Business Finance examines the size of the small business market, in terms of the number of small businesses and takes a detailed look at the number of self-employed and the incomes they generate. This report also reveals the type of finance available to small businesses both in the form of loan finance and equity finance. Small Business Finance considers the immediate and long-term future for such financial packages and examines how this will impact on the existing finance providers.