Good Business Pays TV – Détails, épisodes et analyse

In Episode 11 of The Wait Watchers Show, we learn why large institutional investors are now taking payment practices and payment culture seriously in their investment decisions.

In a wide-ranging discussion, Good Business Pays Founder - Terry Corby, talks to two leading members of the investment community:

Caroline Escott, the award-winning Head of Investment Stewardship and Co-Head of Sustainable Ownership at Railpen - who are responsible for over £34bn in assets on behalf of more than 350,000 members of the railways pension scheme, which is one of the UK’s largest, longest established, and intricate funds.

Daniel Jarman, Stewardship Manager at the Pension Protection Fund (PPF), who protect millions of people throughout the UK who belong to defined benefit pension schemes.  As a public corporation PPF manage £32 billion assets on behalf of 249,000 members.

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In Episode 10 of The Wait Watchers Show (the first of 2026), we host a very special edition on March 24th 2026, the day the UK government announces its plans for the toughest crackdown on late payments in over 25 years.

In this exclusive 30-minute interview with Good Business Pays Founder - Terry Corby, the Minister for Small Business & Economic Transformation, Blair McDougall answers questions about their ambitious plans to toughen the laws around late payment culture. 

Key points covered include:

• UK is backing small businesses with the toughest laws on late payments in the G7 
• Sweeping new powers for the Small Business Commissioner, including multi-million-pound fines to hold big businesses and persistent offenders to account 
• Measures will help tackle cost of living for entrepreneurs and SME owners by ensuring they are paid on time and prevent the abuse of retention payments in construction

Small businesses will be paid on time – that’s the clear message from government today  as it cracks down on late payments, with the largest set of reforms in over a generation. 
 
The Small Business Commissioner will be given sweeping new powers to investigate poor payment practices, adjudicate payment disputes, and fine the worst offenders – with fines worth tens of millions for firms that persistently pay late or fail to comply with the new laws. 
 
The measures will tackle a problem costing the UK economy £11 billion every year and ease the cost of living for entrepreneurs and SME owners who are often forced to wait months – or even years – to receive money they have already earned and having to chase endlessly to receive it. 

Some 38 businesses shut their doors every single day because they are not paid on time – the equivalent of 266 a week, and well over a thousand in any given month.  
 
Every small business owner, including tradespeople, freelancers, family firms and the self-employed, have to waste time and money chasing unpaid invoices when they could be growing their business. 
 
These measures, which will be the toughest in the G7, build upon and strengthen legislation on late payments, first laid out in the 1998 Late Payment of Commercial Debt Act, over 25 years ago. They go further than any previous government and will boost our economy and give small businesses better cashflow. 
 
The changes will include a new 60-day cap on payment terms on all large firms when paying smaller suppliers. New mandatory interest on late payments will also be introduced, with a requirement for all commercial contracts to include statutory interest set at 8% above the Bank of England base rate.   
 
For example, if a small business is owed £10,000 by one of its customers and is paid 60 days later than the agreed payment date, they will be owed £10,293.15 including mandatory interest (£10,000 plus £193.15 interest plus £100 compensation).
 
The Government also propose to ban the withholding of retention payments under the terms of construction contracts, consulting on its implementation. This will prevent small firms losing retentions to insolvency or non-payment.

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This podcast is one of a series of Good Business Pays interviews with Intuit QuickBooks customers. All are small business owners who describe their business, challenges and their experience of late payment.

This episode features Rose Sellman-Leava, Co-Founder and Director of Inclusive Futures CIC. Although based in Bristol, Inclusive Futures partners with universities, local authorities and others to deliver inspiring programs across the UK to help young people realise their best possible potential.

In this wide-ranging discussion, Rose tells us about the work of Inclusive Futures and why it's so important. We also hear about the problems caused for the CIC by late paying customers, the difference it makes when payment is fast and reliable, and some great tips for other small businesses going through the contract negotiation process.

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This podcast is one of a series of Good Business Pays interviews with Intuit QuickBooks customers. All are small business owners who describe their business, challenges and their experience of late payment.

This episode features Andrew Price, Chief Executive of Synapx, a London-based technology and consulting firm providing a range of services with a focus on Microsoft Power Platform consulting. 

In this wide-ranging discussion, Andrew talks about how he set up and grew his business, now more than 40 people operating in the heart of the financial district of the City of London. Andrew talks about the issues caused for his business by late paying clients, but also how fast and fair payment has helped as well as offering great examples of how to negotiate fair contract terms.

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This is Episode 4 of the monthly live podcast from Good Business Pays on The Alchemie Network. It's called The Wait Watchers Show and is meant to be a lively debate and discussion show for and with procurement leaders across the globe.

This show is presented by Terry Corby, Founder & CEO of Good Business Pays. It  introduced a panel of speakers including Rachel Stirrat from HMRC; Ellen Leith from the Purchase2Pay Network; and Joel Gladwin from Intuit Quickbooks.

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This is Episode 3 of the new monthly podcast from Good Business Pays. It's called The Wait Watchers Show and is meant to be a lively debate and discussion show for and with procurement leaders across the globe.

This show is presented by Terry Corby, Founder & CEO of Good Business Pays. It  introduced a panel of speakers including Wayne Foster from Open Banking, Fliss Berridge the Founder of Ordo, and Giulio Rossi a Co-Founder of Previse.

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This is Episode 2 of the new monthly live webinar from Good Business Pays on The Alchemie Network. It's called The Wait Watchers Show and is meant to be a lively debate and discussion show for and with procurement leaders across the globe.

This show is presented by Terry Corby, Founder & CEO of Good Business Pays. It  introduced a panel of speakers including Liz Barclay, the UK Small Business Commissioner; Paul Arpino, Head of BPO Operations & Strategic Regional Procurement at HSBC; and Harold Hendrickx, Co-Founder of The Alchemie Network

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This is Episode 1 of the new monthly live webinar from Good Business Pays on The Alchemie Network. It's called The Wait Watchers Show and is meant to be a lively debate and discussion show for and with procurement leaders across the globe.

This show is presented by Terry Corby, Founder & CEO of Good Business Pays. It  introduced a panel of speakers including George Booth, Chief Procurement Officer at Lloyds Banking Group, Alex Jennings (FCIPS), Co-Founder of The Alchemie Network, Philip King FCICM, former Small Business Commissioner and Jamie Radford, Founder and CEO of the Accounts Payable Association.

In a lively discussion, we debate why late payment is sunch a long-standing problem, the role of procurement and others and discuss the government's new Fair Payment Code.

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ITC Infotech is an international IT organisation supplying specialised technology services to some of the biggest corporations in the world. They are also a winner of the 2024 Good Business Pays Fast Payer Awards.  They have a long-standing culture of fast and on time payment with a broad range of suppliers and contractors. As Financial Controller, Karan Shukla is responsible for all aspects of their finance and supply chain strategy. Karan describes the payment culture at ITC Infotech, how important it is to their supplier relationships and the complications of delivering services to client who may take 150 days to pay whilst at the same time paying their own suppliers in less than 30 days.. For more winners, visit: https://goodbusinesspays.com/fast-pay...

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This podcast is one of a series of Good Business Pays interviews with Intuit QuickBooks customers. All are small business owners who describe their business, challenges and their experience of late payment.

In this episode we interview James Vincent who set up Hot Source Creative to provide marketing services and training to clients of all sizes. James talks about the challenges of running a small, but busy creative business, the problems caused by late payments.

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