Business financing these days is really not easy or have it been really easy?

Small businesses are experiencing a considerable drop in access to finance, research conducted by the Forum of Private Business (FPB) suggests.

Since November the FPB has regularly asked 150 small businesses, among its 22,000 members, how they are faring. This month a third said they have found it much harder to get finance in recent weeks and dissatisfaction with banks has also significantly increased.

The figures were passed to Panorama for Monday's programme on small businesses. In the programme, Credit Where It's Due, business guru and Dragons Den star Theo Paphitis looked at how small businesses were faring during the recession.

The above is quoted from BBC News. Well, is there something new to this? Business financing these days is really not easy or have it been really easy?