Linked Finance, now Ireland’s fastest growing alternative lending platforms, has reached a significant milestone of providing more than €250m in lending to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) across the country. This achievement underscores the strong and increased demand that there is in the Irish SME sector for alternative forms of finance and marks a decade […]
SME Bank, the neobank startup that offers banking and financial services specifically for small- and medium-sized enterprises, has signed a new partnership contract with the European Investment Fund (EIF) unlocking €157m in loans (€65m of which has already been financed) to foster growth and development among SMEs across the Baltics, Finland, and the Netherlands. With […]
Chile is positioned as the leading innovation ecosystem in Latin America and the Caribbean and as a result, has an increasing number of scale ups which are looking to expand internationally into new markets, such as the UK. In recognition of this, ProChile Global X, a soft-landing program for Chilean companies willing to expand towards Europe […]
SME Finance, the fintech reinventing growth financing for small- and medium-sized enterprises, announces today its expansion into the Netherlands. By catering directly to the Dutch market, this expansion not only marks a major step forward in SME Finance’s broader availability throughout Europe but will drive growth and improve financing access in the country. This Dutch […]
GTP, a specialised provider of prepaid and virtual card processing solutions, and InTouch, a leading pan-African fintech, have joined forces in a strategic partnership to democratise access to card credentials for millions of consumers across Africa. This collaboration aims to bridge the gap between digital payment platforms and card-based transactions, giving InTouch customers access to […]
Trade between the UK and Brazil has seen rapid growth in the last five years following significant UK government efforts to push for improved bilateral trade relations and a reduction in red tape, analysis from global financial services firm Ebury reveals. The latest trade data showed that Brazilian imports to the UK have more than […]
Ebury, a leading global fintech specialising in international payments, FX solutions and business lending, announces plans to strengthen its proposition in Brazil and Latin America. Expansion in Latin America is a key area of Ebury’s global growth strategy and builds on its acquisitionof Bexs, which was announced last year. Bexs is a Brazilian bank with […]
Ping An OneConnect Bank (Hong Kong) Limited (“Ping An OneConnect Bank” or “PAOB”), the first virtual bank in Hong Kong dedicated to SMEs, announced an expanded collaboration with eftPay (Asia) Limited (“eftPay”), Hong Kong’s leading electronic payment service provider. Leverage their competitive advantages, PAOB is launching a new SME loan service – “Business Revolving Loan” […]
New data from the 2023 Asia Investment Survey from leading global intelligence consultancy S-RM has found that 84% of UK firms surveyed plan to increase their investment in the APAC region over the next five years. The UK figure was broadly in line with figures for other markets, with 89% of global respondents agreeing that […]
Following the release of the 2022 FCI market survey in January and the robust response that followed from FCI members and strategic stakeholders globally, we are pleased to release the final world factoring statistics. This 2022 report indicates that the factoring and receivables finance industry volume witnessed a significant increase of +18.3% in 2022 succeeding […]
