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🚀 Propel Finance, the UK’s fastest-growing asset finance lender, will work with Apple’s channel partners to offer finance solutions to small and medium businesses investing in Apple devices. The programme launched on Thursday 11th September with Select, an Apple Premium Partner.   Propel’s embedded finance platform will offer market-leading finance through Select to small businesses at the point of sale, both online and in-store.   Small businesses purchasing Mac, iPad, iPhone, Apple Watch and accessories will be able to access finance digitally through the purchase journey, with line-level finance options across multiple products in a single basket, and a highly responsive, intuitive and secure user experience.   The proposition is designed to make it highly attractive for the UK SMB business segment to invest in devices they love, with trade-in and lifecycle management supporting broader sustainability goals.   📖 Read the full story: https://lnkd.in/eX3uF66p Find out more about this new landmark finance offering by visiting https://lnkd.in/eJGrqEtp

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Customers are switching banks. But with the right digital experience, yours won't need to. We surveyed 4,000 customers and 400 senior banking execs across the UK and US to uncover what really drives customer loyalty and whether banks are ready to meet those expectations. Download a copy of the report. The results might surprise you: https://ow.ly/qBcn50WXj4Z

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💳 What do early-stage companies often underestimate when launching a card programme? Louisa Murray, CSO at Railsr, shares her insights on what fintechs need to get right from day one. Access our Money20/20 panel to hear Louisa’s perspective alongside other industry leaders on the future of card issuing: https://bit.ly/44MSFeK

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🎺 We've agreed an ENABLE Guarantee with finance provider 4Syte, supporting a facility of up to £100m. The transaction will unlock additional capacity, increasing 4Syte’s invoice finance and asset-based lending to smaller UK businesses. The funding is being provided by NatWest while the Bank is guaranteeing a portion of the funding and will help to support a doubling of the existing funding facility. “Working with a new delivery partner in 4Syte and alongside an established funder like NatWest, demonstrates our commitment to increasing the diversity of providers in the wider lender market, supporting them at whatever stage of their journey they are on," says Michael Strevens, Our MD, Structured Financial Institution Solutions.

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Pleased to see the Government’s new Financial Services Growth and Competitiveness Strategy, recently announced by Rt Hon Rachel Reeves, set out an opportunity for UK fintechs. According to the Checkout.com Global Trust Index (https://lnkd.in/e7FaJse2) the UK scores 8.6 for trust in the future growth of digital payments – a strong indicator of confidence in the market. By building a more collaborative, trusted, and high-performing ecosystem, the UK can strike the right balance between innovation and regulation, protecting consumers, building trust in the system that allows innovative to flourish and simplify experiences. Credit to Katie Ramsey and the teams at the Department for Business and Trade. It’s a step forward in championing fintech innovation here in the UK.

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Trustly x Virgin Media O2 🚀 A game-changing partnership in UK payments! We’re proud to announce a groundbreaking collaboration with Virgin Media O2 — marking an industry first in the UK as we bring the power of Open Banking and Pay by Bank to millions of their customers. Together, we’re setting a new standard for eCommerce and digital payments — making checkout experiences faster, more secure, and frictionless. 🎥 Don’t miss our exclusive video with Johan Tjärnberg, CEO of Trustly Group, and Abraham Georgakarakos, VP of Digital & eCommerce at Virgin Media O2 – sharing why this partnership is a milestone for both innovation and customer experience. This launch builds on strong momentum: ✅ Digital wallet payments rolled out for Virgin Media O2 contract customers ✅ A successful Open Banking pilot in 2024 ✅ And now — full-scale Pay-by-Bank payments, powered by Trustly We’re just getting started. Stay tuned — the future of payments is here.

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Assetz Capital, one of the UK’s leading non-bank SME development finance lenders, has announced a further reduction in its headline ground-up development finance rate, now starting from just 8.60%. This marks the third reduction in six months, following earlier cuts from 9.10% in February to 8.85% in April, and now to a new market-leading low this July. This progressive rate trajectory underlines Assetz Capital’s continued commitment to enabling SME housebuilders across the UK to deliver more homes, more profitably at a time when affordability, margin protection and delivery speed are more important than ever. “We’ve acted quickly again to support our borrowers,” said Andrew Fraser, Chief Commercial Officer at Assetz Capital. https://lnkd.in/eB7Hx9FU

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