Credit, Collections & Insolvency News
The Bank of England’s Financial Policy Committee (FPC) has warned that the growth of new lending to already indebted firms, through leveraged-loans, has parallels to the subprime mortgage boom which ended with the global financial crisis in 2008. Minutes from the FPC’s latest meeting also reveal warnings over the rise in loans with weaker covenants…
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The Director of a financing company has received a ten-year ban after heading a false invoice scheme to secure £4 million of illegitimate funds. David Marsden, from Exeter, was the Director of finance company First Capital Factors (FCF). Incorporated in 2009, FCF offered recourse factoring facilities for small and medium businesses where they would buy a company’s…
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The Government has announced new measures to boost funding for small businesses. The new laws aim to help small businesses against unfair contracts that stop them raising money from unpaid invoices were put to parliament yesterday. Small Business Minister Kelly Tolhurst put forward new laws to arm small businesses against unfair contracts that stop them raising…
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Barclays has announced that it is partnering with fintech business MarketInvoice, a specialist online invoice financing platform. The bank says it has committed to a significant minority stake in the firm to give Barclays’ SME clients seamless access to innovative forms of finance. Founded in 2011, MarketInvoice has funded invoices worth more than £2.7 billion, boosting…
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UK Finance has published its latest business lending figures for June. Key data highlights include: Lending to manufacturers grew by 9.2 per cent in the last 12 months, in contrast to a wider 1.8 per cent contraction overall in UK business borrowing. UK business deposits for non-financial companies grew by 2.3 per cent in the…
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New figures released by the Finance & Leasing Association (FLA) show that asset finance new business (primarily leasing and hire purchase) for deals of up to £20 million fell in February by 1%, compared with the same month last year. The plant and machinery finance and IT equipment finance sectors reported new business growth in…
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New annual figures, published by UK Finance – for the first time since it took over most of the activities of the Asset Based Finance Association – show a steady increase in invoice finance and asset-based lending in 2017. UK Finance members provided IFABL to 42,000 businesses at the end of 2017, worth a total…
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Ryan Maginess, director of Camereye Contracts, has been disqualified from acting as a director of a limited company for ten years. Maginess was the sole director of the company. The disqualification followed an investigation by the Insolvency Service and was ordered at Edinburgh Sheriff’s Court. The disqualification began on 11 January 2018. The investigation found that the company…
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In 2017, almost half of all small to medium UK enterprises turned down a contract or order because they couldn’t deliver the work due to a lack of available finance; a trend that is expected to continue in 2018. According to funding line data from Hitachi Capital Invoice Finance, the demand for invoice finance is…
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Figures released from UK Finance have revealed that the balance of pure Invoice Finance has grown from £18.6 billion at the end of Q2 2017 to £18.9 billion at the end of Q3 2017. This marks record lending levels from UK businesses amid sustained annual growth with the total balance of Invoice Finance rising from…
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Latest data released by UK Finance has shown that the invoice finance and asset-based lending sector is providing more finance to UK businesses than ever before. Advances (the amount of funding being provided to clients at the close of the most recent quarter) are up 13 per cent year on year and stand at just over…
Read moreAIM-listed specialist independent provider of finance facilities, 1PM has announced the proposed acquisition of MH Holdings (UK) Limited, the holding company for Academy Leasing Limited for up to £12m. Academy Leasing has grown organically since its launch in 1987 to become one of the UK’s leading providers of equipment and vehicle finance. The acquisition will allow Academy…
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MarketInvoice has expanded its mission in the business finance space by launching business loans today. This will complement their suite of invoice finance solutions, allowing them to better service the working capital needs of UK businesses. The launch announcement comes as MarketInvoice rebrands, representing its evolution into a business finance company. Businesses will now be…
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