erad has partnered with Jefferies (with co-investment from Channel Capital) to secure $125 million in a credit deal

LHV Bank has today launched its new Easy Access savings account paying a highly competitive 4.17% Gross/4.25% AER on balances up to £100,000.

Finom, the European financial services platform for entrepreneurs, announced expansion of their credit offering to Germany after a successful pilot in the Netherlands started earlier this year. The credit lines are currently available to existing Finom customers who have been with the platform for at least three months, allowing the company to scale the offering responsibly while supporting businesses they already know.

Economy Minister Dr Caoimhe Archibald has announced that seven SMEs in Belfast are investing more than £4.1m to grow exports, invest in research and development, and create 33 new jobs.

Public opinion on the future of pension tax relief is sharply divided, according to new research from PensionBee - with views split along age and income lines, and even unexpected support for reform among the highest earners.

Aviva, a startup using natural language processing to transform conversations into structured data to offer microloans, has secured a USD 50 million credit line from Community Investment Management (CIM), an institutional impact investment manager that provides strategic debt capital to demonstrate and scale responsible innovation in lending for underserved communities.

RateX, the leading yield trading protocol on Solana, today announced that it has raised a total of $10.4 million across three funding rounds over the past two years, including a recently completed $7 million strategic round. The latest raise includes participation from leading global investors such as Animoca Ventures, ECHO, GSR, Crypto.com Capital, Gate, Rzong Capital, BGX Capital, Summer Capital, and more.

Bibby Financial Services (BFS), the independent SME funder, has provided a £12 million confidential invoice discounting facility to Diverse Recruitment Group, supporting its growth ambitions.

Tidalwave, an agentic AI-powered mortgage point-of-sale (POS) platform, today announced a $22 million Series A funding round led by Permanent Capital, with participation from D.R. Horton, Inc., the nation’s largest homebuilder, and a follow-on from Engineering Capital. This brings Tidalwave’s total funding to $24 million.

Barker, a pioneering Fintech firm that transforms illiquid asset valuations into insurance-backed instruments, secured $3.5 million in funding led by Walkabout VC. The new capital will accelerate expansion of Barker’s agentic valuation system, delivering real-time, enforceable hard asset valuations across asset-backed finance.

Capital on Tap announced the successful closing of "London Cards 3," its third ABS, a £500 million funding package

New research from Creditspring reveals that the average Brit has spent hundreds of pounds in the past year on unplanned expenses - from car repairs and broken appliances to vet bills and home emergencies - with millions now worried that the upcoming Autumn Budget will make life even more expensive.

Maxima, the agentic AI platform for accounting automation, today announced $41 million in Seed and Series A funding from Redpoint Ventures, Kleiner Perkins, Audacious Ventures, joined by industry leaders and operators including former BlackLine CMO & Chief Strategy Officer Andres Botero, former BlackLine SVP of Operations Eric Borrmann, Rubrik CFO Kiran Choudary, Vanta CFO David Eckstein, and NFL Super Bowl Champion and Liquid 2 Managing Partner Joe Montana. Maxima is redefining the month-end accounting close process with AI agents that co-prepare financial reports alongside accounting teams, ensuring accuracy, consistency, and auditability.

Ramp, the leading financial operations platform, is now valued at $32B following a $300 million primary financing round