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Lending to UK small and medium-sized businesses reached its highest level since 2021 in the first quarter of 2026, underlining renewed demand for external finance as companies manage growth, cashflow and cost pressures. New data from UK Finance showed SME...
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More than 90,000 merchants across Italy will gain access to embedded working capital finance following a new partnership between embedded…
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The UK receivables finance market is undergoing one of its most significant structural shifts in decades as major high street…
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UK SMEs trading internationally are warning of severe financial pressure as disruption linked to the Iran war drives up logistics,…
#FX risk#Iran war#sme finance
A new accounts receivable report has highlighted the continuing pressure late payments place on business cash flow, with companies still…
#accounts receivable#collections#late payments
ART Business Loans has reported further growth in lending to small and medium-sized businesses across the West Midlands and adjoining…
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Afreximbank has extended a US$15mn SME finance facility to Ecobank Zimbabwe to support small businesses operating in export value chains.…
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Africa’s trade finance gap has widened to more than US$74bn, underlining the pressure facing exporters, importers and banks across the…
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UK bank lending to businesses has fallen to its lowest level in nearly three decades, intensifying concerns over whether traditional…
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US specialty finance company ByzFunder has launched its first small business asset-backed securitisation, creating a $165mn structure backed by business…
#asset-backed securitisation#ByzFunder#private credit
BCRS Business Loans has passed £5mn in lending through the British Business Bank’s Midlands Engine Investment Fund II, supporting SMEs…
#BCRS Business Loans#British Business Bank#Midlands Engine Investment Fund
A.B.S. Global Factoring has signed a software licence agreement with efcom as the German receivables finance provider looks to scale…
#A.B.S. Global Factoring#Efcom#Europe
Capital4Trade and Tech Cargo have completed what the companies describe as a market-first non-bank trade finance transaction using a WaveBL…
#Capital4Trade#DeFi#electronic bill of lading