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Ares closes US$8.2bn of direct lending commitments in second...

Ares Management’s credit funds closed approximately US$8.2bn of US direct lending commitments across 69 transactions during the second quarter of 2026, highlighting the continued scale of private credit deployment into sponsor-backed companies. The alternative asset manager said its US direct...

#acquisition finance#Ares Credit#Ares Management

TA backs Oxane as private credit technology race accelerates

TA Associates has agreed a strategic growth investment in Oxane Partners, backing the private-credit technology company as banks and alternative…

#alternative finance#asset based lending#credit technology


PEX secures US$160m to combine business credit with finance...

Corporate card and spend-management provider PEX has secured US$160m in debt and equity financing to expand its business-credit programme and…

#Bluff Point Associates#business credit#Clear Haven Capital Management


iwoca lands £250m funding line as demand for larger...

UK small-business lender iwoca has secured a new £250m debt facility from an unnamed leading UK bank and Waterfall Asset…

#alternative finance#Business lending#iwoca


YouLend puts working capital inside REA Card terminals across...

YouLend has partnered with German payments provider REA Card to offer revenue-based working capital directly to merchants using its point-of-sale…

#embedded finance#payments#REA Card


Eurozone banks tighten corporate credit as working-capital demand rises

Eurozone banks tightened lending standards for businesses during the second quarter even as demand for working-capital and inventory finance increased,…

#alternative finance#bank credit#corporate lending


eCapital and AtoB connect freight factoring with fuel payments

eCapital has partnered with transportation payments provider AtoB to combine working-capital finance, fuel purchasing and digital payment tools within a…

#AtoB#digital payments#eCapital


UK advances £100m aerospace supply-chain finance fund

The British Business Bank is progressing plans for a £100m aerospace supply-chain fund intended to provide structured debt capital to…

#aerospace finance#Airbus#British Business Bank


Fina secures US$75m Fasanara facility for Saudi SME working...

Fina, the embedded finance platform within Saudi business-to-business ecosystem SILQ, has secured a US$75m Shariah-compliant facility from Fasanara Capital to…

#embedded finance#Fasanara Capital#Fina


YouLend brings embedded finance to 15,000 German merchants through...

YouLend has partnered with German e-commerce software provider JTL to give more than 15,000 merchants direct access to working-capital finance…

#e-commerce finance#embedded finance#fintech


UK sets aside £500m guarantee capacity for IP-rich SME...

The British Business Bank is making up to £500m of existing guarantee capacity available to support lending to intellectual property-rich…

#alternative finance#British Business Bank#CDFIs


Pollen Street to buy Finastra core banking unit as...

Pollen Street Capital has agreed to acquire Universal Banking, Finastra’s global core banking software business, in a deal that will…

#banking software#core banking#Finastra

Finmid and myPOS bring embedded working capital finance to...

More than 90,000 merchants across Italy will gain access to embedded working capital finance following a new partnership between embedded…

#alternative finance#embedded finance#finmid

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