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Paragon announces new SME lending sales structure

Paragon Bank’s SME lending division has unveiled a new structure for its sales function, bolstering both the broker and vendor teams, while retaining a clear focus on its specialist markets. The function will consist of three distinct teams – broker,...

#John Phillipou#Paragon Bank#Stewart Good

WFY’23: Record increase in Austrian factoring volumes in 2022

The global economic downturn in 2022 affected Austria in the third quarter of the year, but for the year as…

#Raiffeisen Factor Bank#Simon Peterman#World Factoring Yearbook


WFY’23: ‘Factoring industry in Greece has been able to...

The energy crisis, which was exacerbated after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in early 2022, has resulted in a sharp rise…

#World Factoring Yearbook


EBRD, EU and UniCredit support green SMEs in Bosnia...

The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is providing a €7m loan to UniCredit Bank d.d. Mostar in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Funds will…

#green finance


WFY’23: ‘The Slovak factoring market reflected the development of...

The Slovak economy, like the economies of many other European countries, is being strongly affected by the conflict in Ukraine…

#World Factoring Yearbook


IFC and EU partner with Credit Agricole to empower...

IFC, European Union (EU) and Credit Agricole Ukraine has announce a new €40m equivalent risk-sharing facility to boost access to finance for Ukraine's…

#Credit Agricole


EBRD and EU support Go Green programme in Serbia

The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is providing €60m in financing to OTP Banka in Serbia. As part…

#ESG#sustainability#sustainable finance


UK Finance reports further drop in SME lending in...

Lending to small and medium-sized businesses (SMEs) has fallen 20 per cent in its fifth consecutive quarterly drop, according to…

#SME lending


EBRD launches risk-sharing framework in Kosovo

The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) has launched a risk-sharing framework for Kosovan banks, with ProCredit Bank Kosovo…

#risk-sharing#Sergiy Maslichenko


Taurus and Teylor launch SME loans tokenisation for private...

The Swiss credit fintech Teylor and Deutsche Bank-backed digital asset custody tokenisation provider Taurus launch the Teylor ledger-based security, aiming to…

#Patrick Stäuble#securitisation#Teylor


EU Council and Parliament excludes financial providers from CSDDD

Following an all-night discussion, negotiators from the EU Council and Parliament reached a compromise on the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence…

#ESG#supply chain finance#sustainable finance


Blackstar Capital secures US$1bn to support Government contractors and...

Blackstar Capital, a leading provider of invoice financing to businesses, today announced that it has secured US$1bn in funding to…

#Blackstar Capital#Michael Ellis

British Business Bank launches asset-based lending variant of the...

The British Business Bank has launched an asset-based lending variant of the... (more…)

#Recovery Loan Scheme#UK Finance

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