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Aldermore increases SME lending to £360m

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  • 17/08/2011
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Aldermore increases SME lending to £360m
Aldermore has revealed it lent £360m to small and medium sized businesses (SMEs) over the last 12 months.

The bank began offering specialist funding to SMEs two years ago and the increase has taken the total value of its book to more than £800m and total assets to more than £1bn.

Aldermore said it supports more than 9,500 business customers.

Ian Wilkins, group managing director of commercial finance at Aldermore, said: “At a time when the big banks are falling short of their business lending targets, Aldermore is exceeding all expectations.”

He said that Aldermore’s Invoice Finance business made more than £130m of funding available to SMEs in July, up 42% on the same period of 2010.

In addition, its Asset Finance business, which began lending last year, increased the group’s balance sheet by £100m, with £32m of new loans written in July.

Wilkins said: “We have clearly demonstrated our ambitions and willingness to lend to deserving small and medium sized businesses throughout the country.

“In a short space of time we have developed a specialist SME lending proposition which is in tune with the needs of our customers and is capable of providing a fast, reliable and high quality service.”

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