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What Founders Should Expect from Lenders in 2025

Some lenders are quietly becoming obsolete. In 2025, founders no longer tolerate 6-week approval timelines, rigid credit models, or hidden fees buried in legalese. The pace of business has changed, and the lenders who don’t keep up risk being left behind. This shift isn’t just anecdotal, it’s playing out in the numbers. UK SME lending volumes have...

04 April 2025 Fintech innovation and startups

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From Survival to Scale – How Fintech is Transforming SME Growth Post-Crisis

For SMEs, access to capital has never been a simple issue, but given the current economic climate, the state is even worse. Lenders are still risk-averse, macro economics are uncertain and inflation is raising operating costs. While many companies struggled to survive the post-pandemic era, now the question comes: how do they scale? Having worked...

28 March 2025 Fintech innovation and startups

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The Real Cost of Financial Exclusion: Why It’s a Business Problem, Not Just a Social Issue

Financial exclusion is not just a social issue, it's an economic waste. SMEs are the backbone of the global economies, yet too many of them find it hard to access capital, not for lack of potential, but because mainstream financial systems are not structured to serve them. Adam Smith, in The Wealth of Nations, wrote: "It is not from the bene...

07 March 2025 Fintech

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