Shanika Amarasekara

“Isolation will get you nowhere” – how the British Business Bank encouraged staff to collaborate and innovate in its quest to boost lending to SMEs
24 Feb 2016 Civil Service Reform
“Isolation will get you nowhere” – how the British Business Bank encouraged staff to collaborate and innovate in its quest to boost lending to SMEs

The legal team at the government-owned British Business Bank has brought together public and private sector expertise to create a new organisation with a challenging mandate – to boost lending to thousands of small and medium-sized businesses. Shanika Amarasekara, general counsel for the bank, shares her team's experience