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When your business is growing and you’re ready to take it to the next stage, you may need to raise funds to realise your ambitions. Two of the most common sources of external finance are debt funding and equity financing. Read …Read More
LendingCrowd, the only fintech lending platform headquartered in Scotland, has been named among the 50 fastest-growing technology companies in the UK. We are one of only three Scottish companies included in the latest Deloitte UK Technology Fast 50 awards, which are …Read More
LendingCrowd was proud to support the recent Scottish Business Insider SME Awards, which celebrate the success of Scotland’s best-performing small and medium-sized companies. We sponsored the title for Fastest Growing SME300 Company, which was awarded to Glasgow-based Castle Precision Engineering, an …Read More
Accessing a business loan, whether it’s for growth, stock, office renovations, equipment or even hiring more staff, can often be a daunting prospect. As the House of Commons Treasury Committee said in its SME Finance report last year: “It is naive …Read More
Uncertainty could result in the largest cut to SME lending, by banks, since the financial crisis of 2008, according to the latest Bank of England Credit Conditions Survey. Availability of business loans has remained steady for the past four years but …Read More
LendingCrowd, the only fintech lending platform headquartered in Scotland, and the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland (ICAS), have signed a strategic partnership that will see LendingCrowd become ICAS’s preferred partner in its Business Loans category. The agreement means that ICAS …Read More
We’re delighted to have been crowned a winner in the Scottish round of the British Chambers of Commerce’s annual business awards, taking the title of High Growth Business of the Year. As Scotland’s High Growth Business of the Year, LendingCrowd now …Read More
LendingCrowd, the only fintech lending platform headquartered in Scotland, has been named Best P2P Business Lender at the inaugural Growth Finance Awards, which recognise the role of the finance community in supporting the growth ambitions of SMEs across the UK. The …Read More
Since the financial crisis a decade ago, banks have been reducing their lending to small businesses. Despite attempts by successive governments to increase the flow of funding to the SME community, many businesses continue to struggle to secure the finance they …Read More
Business loan statistics continue to demonstrate the growing maturity of the UK marketplace business lending sector as a funding option for SMEs. In its infancy, back in 2011, only £21 million of business loans were provided by marketplace lenders, the Cambridge …Read More
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