Tagged: funding circle

October 2, 2025 @ 2:02 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Funding Circle (LSE: FCH), an SME finance platform, has removed foreign transaction fees across its business card portfolio, including the FlexiPay card and its Cashback Business Credit Card. This is expected to challenge the current UK market status quo, where SMEs have been forced to… Read More

September 18, 2025 @ 1:51 am By Omar Faridi  |  

In a boost for the UK’s small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) financing sector, Funding Circle Holdings plc  (LSE: FCH) has announced a partnership renewal that will propel it past the £3 billion total financing milestone. The development, revealed on September 17, 2025, underscores the fintech’s… Read More

July 17, 2025 @ 8:41 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Funding Circle (LSE: FCH), a UK-based SME finance platform, has received a £200 million forward flow agreement with Deutsche Bank. Deutsche Bank, a funder on the Funding Circle platform for more than 10 years now, is said to strengthen its commitment to enabling UK-based SMEs… Read More

June 23, 2025 @ 1:00 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Funding Circle (LSE: FCH), the UK’s SME finance platform, secured a £230 million credit facility from Citi, that the firm will deploy to support its continued strong growth in flexible SME finance solutions. Funding Circle will use the credit facility to “support the continued strong… Read More

May 2, 2025 @ 3:48 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The United Kingdom, once a global leader in fintech and cryptocurrency innovation, is at risk of falling behind other major global hubs due to stringent regulations and limited access to funding, according to industry professionals. As other regions like the United States, Singapore, and the… Read More

October 7, 2024 @ 6:26 pm By JD Alois  |  

Funding Circle US, previously part of Funding Circle UK, was acquired by iBusiness Funding LLC, part of Ready Capital (NYSE:RC), earlier this year. When the sale was announced, Funding Circle CEO Lisa Jacobs said,: “We are pleased to have reached an agreement with iBusiness Funding, one… Read More

September 5, 2024 @ 8:23 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Funding Circle UK (LSE: FCH) has released their Half Year 2024 results. Funding Circle says that they delivered “a solid financial performance, stronger than expectations, and made good progress to simplify the business and deliver profitability as set out in their Full Year Results in… Read More

November 25, 2023 @ 2:15 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Funding Circle (LSE: FCH), the UK’s SME lending platform, and Atom bank, the UK’s first app-based bank, announce a new lending partnership that “will provide up to c.£150m of funding to small businesses.” Atom bank is a “long-standing” and returning investor in the Funding Circle… Read More

November 20, 2023 @ 8:32 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Enfuce, a provider of embedded finance solutions, has revealed a new partnership with UK-based small business lending platform Funding Circle (LSE: FCH) to launch its new small business credit card as part of its FlexiPay product. FlexiPay is a revolving line of credit that “helps small… Read More

November 1, 2023 @ 12:15 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Funding Circle (LSE: FCH), the online platform for small business loans, announced that we have received a formal notice from the US Small Business Administration (SBA) that their application has “resulted in a tentative award for an SBA Small Business Lending Company (SBLC) license to… Read More

September 7, 2023 @ 7:50 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Funding Circle (LSE: FCH) has recently published its HY 2023 results, “covering the six months ended 30 June 2023.” The business delivered a solid financial performance in line “with expectations and the guidance it set in March for FY2023 and FY2025 remains unchanged.” Here are… Read More

July 30, 2023 @ 11:28 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Funding Circle (LSE: FCH), which claims to be a leading online lending platform for small business borrowers, recently announced that Kanthi Muthiah has joined the company as U.S. Chief Product Officer. Kanthi, a former FICO, PayPal, and JP Morgan executive, will “support overall product strategy and… Read More

July 26, 2023 @ 3:34 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Rainbow Energy says they have some updates for their business customers. They are now working with Funding Circle (LSE: FCH), which claims to be the leading platform for small business loans, as a trusted partner in order “to help small businesses get the infrastructure in… Read More

June 23, 2023 @ 7:16 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Funding Circle (LSE: FCH),which claims to be the UK’s largest small business lending platform, and Waterfall Asset Management (WAM), a multi-national institutional asset manager, announce “the closing of a £240m securitization backed by SME loans.” The loans, “financed by funds managed by WAM, and originated… Read More

June 17, 2023 @ 10:02 am By Omar Faridi  |  

One of the UK’s largest small business lending platform, Funding Circle (LSE: FCH), has made its new product, FlexiPay, available for brokers to offer their clients who currently have a Funding Circle business loan. The launch of FlexiPay “means small business borrowers can now also borrow,… Read More

April 17, 2023 @ 8:34 am By Omar Faridi  |  

A report published by the UK’s small business lending platform, Funding Circle (LSE: FCH), in partnership with insights consultancy Savanta, looks at “how resilience for small businesses and the impact of staff wellbeing is more important now than ever before.” Small businesses have “been hard… Read More

March 28, 2023 @ 8:41 am By Omar Faridi  |  

New research— recently published by Oxford Economics and in partnership with Funding Circle (LSE:FCH), including a detailed survey of Funding Circle customers—reveals UK SMEs’ durability, with 58% of respondents “saying their experience of dealing with the pandemic’s challenges has made their business more resilient.” Over… Read More

March 2, 2023 @ 8:03 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Funding Circle (LSE:FCH) has published its Preliminary Results for the year ended 31 December 2022. Funding Circle reports Group total income (guidance) of £140m – £155m; £148.7m for FY 2022; and £206.9m for FY 2021. And Adjusted EBITDA (guidance) of Positive Adjusted EBITDA; £6.8m for… Read More

February 24, 2023 @ 9:02 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Funding Circle (LSE:FCH) has announced a partnership with Sage, a firm focused on accounting, financial, HR, and payroll technology for small and mid-sized businesses (SMBs). The collaboration “makes it simpler for small businesses to secure funding.” With the incorporation of Sage Accounting and Funding Circle’s… Read More

January 5, 2023 @ 11:29 am By JD Alois  |  

Funding Circle US, a subsidiary of the UK firm Funding Circle (LSE:FCH) has selected a new Managing Director to lead operations. According to a release, Steve Allocca will take over the US operations of the SME online lending platform, reporting directly to Funding Circle CEO… Read More