Tagged: sme’s

July 15, 2024 @ 7:55 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Assetz Capital, a funder in the SME commercial property and residential development markets, is pleased to announce that Mark Roberts has joined the expanding business to lead the growth of their development finance arm. While Mark’s role is national, his remit will also “focus on… Read More

July 8, 2024 @ 9:20 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Assetz Capital, a funder in the SME development lending market, announce a significant enhancement to its development lending solutions, “offering stronger initial day one advances to developers on schemes up to 70% LTGDV.” This strategic offer is designed to equip housebuilders “with robust financial support… Read More

July 8, 2024 @ 8:58 am By Omar Faridi  |  

UK’s ThinCats has shared insights following the new Labour government announcement. Managing Director Ravi Anand gives his thoughts on what ThinCats would like “to see from the new government and challenges them to back growth and invest in mid-sized SMEs.” For any incoming Government, there… Read More

June 30, 2024 @ 9:26 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

multifi are a lending service for SMEs, empowering innovative businesses to reach the next level of growth and cover emergencies. However, to offer the solution that SMEs were crying out for, they “needed to offer loans that were fast and easily accessible.” For that, they… Read More

June 21, 2024 @ 6:08 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

For small businesses, navigating the set-up of payment acceptance can be confusing and expensive, often requiring significant upfront costs to set up a website, checkout, and POS terminal. This, according to an update from researchers at Juniper Research. However, merchants can now do all these… Read More

June 18, 2024 @ 3:21 am By Omar Faridi  |  

With a stabilizing tech sector, easing interest rates and an IPO on the horizon, accounting and banking software platform Ageras eyes both growing supply and demand for a pan-European consolidation in the fintech and business software market “servicing Europe’s almost 25 million SMEs.” And according… Read More

June 12, 2024 @ 10:48 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

BridgeFund, a challenger SME lender based in Amsterdam, chooses Mambu to fulfil its mission of bridging the financial needs of entrepreneurs. By utilising Mambu’s cloud banking platform, BridgeFund can “build its deposit, and soon, lending offerings with reliability and ease, while scaling in the Dutch… Read More

June 11, 2024 @ 10:20 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Viva.com, Europe’s acquirer powering payments across 24 countries and any device, and Beobank, a Belgian bank offering personalized products and services to 765 000 individuals clients, self-employed individuals, and SMEs in Belgium, announced a partnership aiming to advance local SMEs’ digital evolution and business growth…. Read More

June 4, 2024 @ 12:31 pm By JD Alois  |  

Abrigo has announced a commercial loan origination tool for SME lending. Abrigo Small Business Lending is said to leverage AI to help banks and credit unions boost their small business loan portfolios. The automated loan processing is said to provide a transparent, AI-powered loan scoring… Read More

June 3, 2024 @ 4:07 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Relay, the business banking platform that gives cash flow clarity to small businesses (SMBs), announced the close of a US$32.2 million Series B financing round, led by Bain Capital Ventures. This brings Relay’s total funding to US$51.6 million. The new financing accelerates Relay’s product development… Read More

May 30, 2024 @ 8:20 am By Omar Faridi  |  

‍Three in ten SME finance professionals (28%) report that the most requested loan amount at the start of 2024 was over £100,000, 56% higher than the same period last year, according to iwoca’s Q1 2024 SME Expert Index. The new research, conducted with SME finance… Read More

May 21, 2024 @ 7:09 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Businesses looking for short-term capital can access funding in rapid time thanks to a new partnership between Experian and alternative lender, TRIVER. TRIVER aims to enhance the SME lending process “by underwriting the risk of small business borrowing quickly and easily, providing advances on business… Read More

April 30, 2024 @ 11:50 pm By JD Alois  |  

Specialty lender Capify has received a $125 million credit facility from Pollen Street Capital. Capify is an online lender that offers financing solutions to SMEs seeking working capital. Originally started in the US, the company also serves the SME market in the UK and Australia…. Read More

April 28, 2024 @ 9:54 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Cowbell, a provider of cyber insurance for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), introduces Prime Tech with Cowbell Co-Pilot, Cowbell’s artificial intelligence (AI) solution for efficient underwriting. Prime Tech is Cowbell’s adaptive cyber insurance offering “that combines flagship Prime 250 cyber risk insurance with Technology Errors… Read More

April 22, 2024 @ 11:07 pm By Michael Wong  |  

Softloans, a Fintech startup headquartered in Vilnius, Lithuania, has successfully secured €1 million in pre-seed funding to bolster its growth and development initiatives. The investment round was spearheaded by venture capital firm Firstpick, alongside contributions from several business angels, signaling strong investor confidence in the… Read More

April 14, 2024 @ 11:37 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

New data from one of Europe’s largest small business lenders, iwoca, reveals how SMEs are exploring social media influencers as an avenue for marketing. More than two-thirds of SME owners (70%) are “active on social media platforms, and one in eight (13%) have used an… Read More

March 21, 2024 @ 7:37 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Small firms continue to face a challenging macroeconomic environment, as sales growth in the December festive period hit a three-year low, according to the Xero Small Business Insights (XSBI) data from global small business platform Xero – which covers the three months to December 2023…. Read More

March 14, 2024 @ 10:08 am By JD Alois  |  

UK Finance is reporting today that demand for SME financing improved in Q4 of 2023. Last year was difficult for all firms as markets, both public and private, sagged. This was due to rising interest rates paired with inflation as well as geopolitical challenges. However,… Read More

March 5, 2024 @ 3:06 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

TrueNorth, a professional services organization specializing in implementation, systems integration and engineering of digital solutions for the financial services industry, and Brim Financial, a provider of credit card platform as-a-service and one of the fastest growing Fintechs in North America, are excited to announce their… Read More

February 27, 2024 @ 8:05 am By Omar Faridi  |  

iwoca, which claims to be one of Europe’s largest SME lenders, announces a partnership with business account provider Countingup to make business finance available to almost 10,000 of Countingup’s users at the touch of a button. Building on Countingup’s suite of built-in finance, accounting and… Read More