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Small Business Index reveals borrowing challenges threaten UK growth 

Small businesses across the UK are at a financial crossroads as high interest rates and restricted access to traditional financing become a growth inhibitor, according to the 2025 Intuit QuickBooks Small Business...

Reinventing financial due diligence for SMEs

Ian Fishwick, Client Services Director from Evolution Capital, outlines the challenges faced by SMEs when acquiring another SME and how Evolution Capital has reinvented financial due diligence.   There are about...

SME lender secures new £200 million funding led by Citi

iwoca, one of Europe’s largest SME lenders, has announced a new £200 million package of debt funding from Citi and Waterfall Asset Management and doubles its SME loan offer ceiling to £1 million. The funding follows a ser...

Fuel Ventures leads £1.5 million investment in Groov to bridge the SME ...

Fuel Ventures, a leading UK venture capital fund, has led a £1.5 million seed funding round in Groov, a leader in embedded lending.  Supported by Aperture and a select group of industry-focused angel investors, ...

EIB Global and KCB Bank sign deal to support SMEs, youth and women

The EIB Global and KCB Bank Kenya signed a €230 million deal to support SMEs, youth and women in Kenya, a partnership in which EIB Global provides a €115 million credit line, which KCB will match. This is EIB Global’s large...

Liberis to extend small business financing to 10 European countries through...

Liberis, a leading global embedded finance platform, announced a partnership with myPOS, an award-winning FinTech platform and payment service provider to European SMEs. This partnership will enable myPOS to...

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