The British Business Bank has reached the landmark milestone of £5bn of lending across its structured guarantee programmes, ENABLE Guarantees and ENABLE Build, with more than £3bn delivered to businesses outside London and the South East. A total of £500m of funding has been provided in each of the North West, East Midlands and East of England regions.

Upstart Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: UPST), the leading artificial intelligence (AI) lending marketplace, today hosted its first-ever AI Day investor event in New York City, where executives highlighted the company’s proprietary AI, differentiated business model, and unique financial profile.

Tuum, the next-generation core banking platform, has been selected by Bondora, a leading European consumer finance provider, to support its ambition to become a fully licensed digital bank and modernize its lending operations across multiple EU markets.

Froda has joined forces with UK fintech wamo to launch card-based lending in Finland to close the SME financing gap,

The FCA want to make it easier, faster and cheaper for borrowers to make changes to their mortgage

Oracle CloudWorld Tour -- Empowering retail financial institutions to modernize their lending operations, Oracle today announced new cloud services – Oracle Banking Retail Lending Servicing Cloud Service and Oracle Banking Collections Cloud Service.

OakNorth has surpassed $1bn of lending in the US since it began lending there in July 2023

PowerPay is pleased to announce the successful closing of a $400 million committed warehouse facility

Kommuninvest has selected the state-of-the-art Finuevo Core banking solution to enhance and modernise its operations.

Credibly, the GenAI-powered lending platform dedicated to championing small businesses, announced today the launch of Credibly.ai, an innovation and technology showcase

Zions Bancorporation has selected nCino as its technology platform as they digitally transform their loan origination process

Announced by the Chancellor today, the Growth Guarantee Scheme will provide approximately £500m of additional lending capacity to help more smaller businesses across the UK. The extra funding is aimed at smaller businesses that may need support with cashflow issues due to changes in global tariff rates.

Experian® today announced the launch of Cashflow Score, the latest in a short list of products that may be used to make lending decisions

Unity Trust Bank, which supports organisations that create positive social impact across the UK, has reported that more than half of its lending went to customers delivering services in areas of high deprivation in 2024.

Trade Ledger and Bank of Queensland Group have entered a groundbreaking long-term partnership to revolutionise asset finance lending for SMEs