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Conrad Ford
Eugenie Casier


Articles Featuring Funding Options

All change: Funding Options diversifies into energy switching

20th July 2021 | Oliver Smith

Business lenders are increasingly looking at directors’ personal financial records for lending decisions

16th July 2021 | Oliver Smith

Open banking’s penny-drop moment

7th July 2021 | AltFi

First green finance marketplace for SMEs launched by Funding Options

6th July 2021 | Oliver Smith

Where is small business lending heading next?

29th June 2021 | Aisling Finn

Lessons launching an Australian fintech in a pandemic

7th May 2021 | Ryan Edwards-Pritchard

Embedded Finance: Funding Options launches ‘real-time’ lending platform

27th April 2021 | Daniel Lanyon

Cape bags Australian government grant to accelerate growth

8th April 2021 | Aisling Finn

Starling Bank joins Funding Options’ list of lenders

8th April 2021 | Oliver Smith

Australian credit card challenger hires industry veteran Tanya Ward as first CFO

16th March 2021 | Aisling Finn

Recovery Loan Scheme: The good, the bad and the ugly

15th March 2021 | Oliver Smith

Cape hires ex-MarketFinance risk chief for its Australian launch

18th February 2021 | Oliver Smith

Fintech’s biggest hires and departures of 2020

5th January 2021 | Aisling Finn

Funding Options and accountancy firm Cooper Parry join forces

29th October 2020 | Aisling Finn

Conrad Ford among latest fintech vets to join Allica Bank

5th October 2020 | Daniel Lanyon

Ex-Funding Options, 11:FS and Funding Circle trio to launch SME credit card in Australia

18th September 2020 | Aisling Finn

CBILS loans hit £5.5bn of lending to SMEs

7th May 2020 | Daniel Lanyon

ING leads SME fintech Countingup’s £4m fundraise

7th May 2020 | Aisling Finn

Innovate Finance urges government to keep non-bank lending lines open

15th April 2020 | Oliver Smith

Starling Bank and OakNorth among new lenders added to coronavirus loans panel

14th April 2020 | Daniel Lanyon

Funding Options agrees Open Banking data partnership with 20 lenders

7th April 2020 | Oliver Smith

Funding Options sees £1bn loan applications in March

6th April 2020 | Daniel Lanyon

Iwoca officially debuts its SME lending-as-a-service platform

18th March 2020 | Oliver Smith

Metro Bank strikes deal with banking software provider Ezbob

10th March 2020 | John Reynolds

Exclusive: ex-Funding Options CEO joins Starling Bank

3rd March 2020 | Daniel Lanyon

Five fintechs that had a tough 2019

8th January 2020 | John Reynolds

2019 In Fintech And Alternative Finance: Part 1

23rd December 2019 | Oliver Smith

Funding Options strikes deal with Validis to streamline SME borrowing

11th December 2019 | Oliver Smith

Funding Options confirms Simon Cureton’s appointment as interim CEO

4th October 2019 | Oliver Smith

Breaking: Funding Options CEO Conrad Ford and MD Ryan Edwards-Pritchard step down

19th September 2019 | Oliver Smith

Treasury’s bank referral scheme provides alternative loans for just 6pc of small firms

30th August 2019 | Roger Baird

ClearBank founder Nick Ogden joins Shieldpay board

28th August 2019 | Oliver Smith

Fintechs and banks: dancing to the same beat

21st August 2019 | Eugenie Casier

Alternative finance pioneer denies attempting to offload peer-to-peer holdings

5th August 2019 | Roger Baird

WorldPay and ClearBank founder joins Funding Options’ board

11th July 2019 | Daniel Lanyon

AltFi unveils dates and venues for its Winter Summits in Toronto and Berlin

18th June 2019 | AltFi

Funding Options and others share £25m from RBS competition fund

14th June 2019 | Roger Baird

Funding Options poaches Google strategy boss to head marketing arm

11th June 2019 | Roger Baird

Yolt strikes deal with Raisin, notches up 900,000 customers

6th June 2019 | Roger Baird

Three million small firms want help managing finances, says report

3rd June 2019 | Roger Baird

Funding Options and Experian bid for slice of RBS £775m bank competition fund

10th May 2019 | Roger Baird

Touch Financial hires former Funding Options digital boss

9th May 2019 | Roger Baird

Discouraged demand and SME advice gap take the limelight at alternative finance industry roundtable

25th April 2019 | Oliver Smith

HMRC business closures ‘too aggressive’, warns Funding Options

15th April 2019 | Roger Baird

Funding Options hires former banker as commercial director

10th April 2019 | Roger Baird

Small retailers chase new financing to survive high street cull

11th February 2019 | Roger Baird

Digital business banking arms race heats up

14th November 2018 | Ryan Weeks

Fintech referral platform bags series A fundraise

19th March 2018 | Ryan Weeks

German fintech Compeon scoops €12m fundraise

13th October 2017 | Ryan Weeks

Mandatory bank referral scheme has delivered £4m to small businesses so far

11th August 2017 | Ryan Weeks

Are the UK’s alternative lenders ready to publish APRs?

28th June 2017 | Ryan Weeks

A quiet crash in big bank lending?

3rd March 2017 | Ryan Weeks

What to watch out for in alternative finance in 2017

3rd January 2017 | Ryan Weeks

Bank referral scheme goes live

1st November 2016 | Ryan Weeks

All change at Proplend

6th October 2016 | Ryan Weeks

In an increasingly intermediated industry, what’s the real value-add of a marketplace lending platform?

28th September 2016 | Ryan Weeks

GLI Finance reports £10.3m loss in H1

26th September 2016 | Ryan Weeks

Bank referral scheme to go live early next quarter

23rd September 2016 | Ryan Weeks

Interest rates fall, P2P platforms overwhelmingly positive

4th August 2016 | Ryan Weeks

UK votes Leave – AltFi leaders react

24th June 2016 | Ryan Weeks

Fund Watch: What next for pioneer GLI?

27th May 2016 | David Stevenson

Budget Update 2016: Chancellor sweetens the pill for investors and savers

17th March 2016 | David Stevenson

SME Lender GLIF Updates On Strategic Review

16th February 2016 | Rupert Taylor

What to watch out for in 2016

4th January 2016 | Ryan Weeks

How go the referrals?

10th December 2015 | Ryan Weeks

Report Calls for Government to Boost SME Awareness

24th November 2015 | Sam Hodges

When and why is reintermediation useful?

7th August 2015 | Ryan Weeks

Next Step in Referrals Process

29th July 2015 | Ryan Weeks

GLIF Buys A Slice of the Mandatory Referral Scheme

6th May 2015 | Ryan Weeks

What lies ahead for ‘peer-to-business’ lending in the UK?

25th June 2014 | Conrad Ford