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UPDATE 3: Which fintechs are offering government-backed Recovery Loans?
The UK’s new government-backed lending package launched at the start of April, so which fintechs are helping to dish out the funds?
UPDATE 02-06-2021 – Article amended to include newly-accredited Recovery Loan Scheme lenders Starling Bank and Funding Circle, and to update lenders awaiting accreditation.
Nearly 12 months to the day after Chancellor Rishi Sunak unveiled the original CBILS lending scheme to help SMEs, the British Business Bank this month replaced all three of its lending packages.
In their place now stands the Recovery Loan Scheme, a new programme of 80 per cent government-backed loans of between £25,000 and £10m, with interest rates capped at 15 per cent.
Through CBILS, CLBILS and Bounce Back Loans, the British Business Bank has facilitated some £75bn worth of financing for 1.6m businesses, and Recovery Loans will undoubtedly prove similarly popular.
But with yet another new acronym (RLS?), loans with different pros and cons, and a newly accredited list of lenders, there’s a lot to keep track of.
Read more:Recovery Loan Scheme — The good, the bad and the ugly
So here is our run-down list of the fintech and non-bank lenders taking part in the Recovery Loan Scheme, and the government-backed loans they are offering:
Recovery Loan Scheme
Ebury
After being part of the earlier CBILS scheme and later teaming up with MarketFinance to accelerate its lending, trade finance group Ebury was among the first lenders to be added to the Recovery Loan Scheme on 6 April.
Similar to CBILS, it is currently offering a revolving credit of up to £3m covered by government guarantee through its customer overdraft facility, also with a minimum of £50,000.
Ebury has just updated its website with news of the scheme.
OakNorth Bank
With a minimum loan amount of £500,000, OakNorth Bank is looking to serve the largest business customers with its term loans of up to six years.
The bank adds that the maximum loan amount on offer is £10m per business, although at a group level this can be extended to £30m.
Paragon Bank
Publicly-listed fintech, Paragon Bank is also offering loans under the Recovery Loan Scheme.
Paragon has a smaller £2m per business maximum loan size, with term loans and asset finance available from 36 to 72 months and with a minimum loan size of £25,001.
Aldermore
Aldermore is focused on asset finance and term loans from £25,000 up to £10m per business, with terms of between three months and six years.
Triodos Bank
Triodos Bank is offering variable-rate and fixed-rate loans of between £100,000 and £10m under the Recovery Loan Scheme.
Atom Bank
Atom Bank has finally been approved to offer Recovery Scheme Loans, and has just started accepting applications...
Atom is offering secured business loans of between £250,000 up to a maximum of £5m, over a six-year term, for new and existing customers.
Starling Bank
Starling has opened applications for Recovery Loans, with term loans of between £25,000 and £250,000 now available and a one-off four per cent loan arrangement fee. The lender says interest will be priced according to each applicant's circumstances, with loan terms of between one and six years.
Funding Circle
Peer-to-peer lender Funding Circle is offering small business loans of between £25,000 and £350,000 with terms from two to six years. Interest rates range between 4.3 per cent and 12.1 per cent depending on an applicant's circumstances, and there is no early repayment fee.
Not Yet Accredited
Iwoca
Iwoca says “we've applied for accreditation” to join the Recovery Loan Scheme, here’s the best place on its website to keep an eye for updates.
We’ll periodically update this article with newly accredited fintech lenders.
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