Funding Announcements

"Millions of creditworthy SME firms in developing countries are underserved by the formal financial sector. This represents a USD4.5 trillion global SME credit gap in developing economies (with India representing USD221 billion)"

"Fluidly works to help SMEs sleep better at night, by providing control, certainty and confidence around cashflow. We’re thrilled to have been awarded this £5m grant by BCR to scale our impact and support for businesses."

"Small businesses are at the heart of the UK economy and it’s vital they are able to access a range of funding choices when they need it. Winning this grant from the Capability and Innovation Fund helps us accelerate our plans to help SMEs across the country achieve their goals. It will help us develop much needed technology solutions to support small businesses in local communities to access funding, and it will also enable us to continue to grow the alternative lending market. We have already delivered £0.25 billion in funding for more than 5,000 hard-pressed UK small businesses, from Cornwall to Skye, and from Northern Ireland to Norfolk."

"Form3’s FI API payment technology and Ebury’s global SME transaction services are already disrupting payments and forex. Our plan is to combine these unique capabilities to significantly disrupt the market and give UK SMEs access to these services at scale through our FI clients, enabling UK SMEs to grow their businesses internationally and focus on their core businesses."

"The work of data scientists is especially important in the area of finance, where a single slip in rationality can lead to a devastating effect on the value of an investment portfolio. Algorithms don’t feel the emotional strain of a declining portfolio value, or make flawed decisions tainted by innate human biases. As a result, algorithmic decision making in financial markets has grown explosively in recent times."