The success of the inaugural International Festival for Business (IFB) in Liverpool has been rewarded after Chancellor George Osborne committed funding for a 2016 edition of the event. Osborne, speaking at one of the festival’s key events, the Santander SME summit at the Cunard Building on the waterfront, has granted a request for financial support for IFB 2016 from the Mayor of Liverpool. “When I travel around the world meeting forei...