The Group entered the alternative finance sector providing much needed finance and banking services to UK SMEs building a robust, scalable, AML compliant process for UK Corporate Borrowers and eventually Europe.

The Group entered the alternative finance sector with the aim of providing a real alternative to Business Banking and has built a robust, scalable, Anti Money Laundering (AML) compliant process for on boarding Corporate Borrowers in the UK and eventually Europe. This was achieved through increasingly using FinTech to streamline the application process and deliver exceptional customer experience.

Having fully proven the model across the JLG portfolio, the Group is now positioned to provide these services additionally to Financial Institutions with a need to balance the management of costs with their regulatory obligations under the Anti Money Laundering legislation.

By doing so, both new entrant and established, Financial Institutions are able to serve the business and small corporate market cost effectively and with an improved quality of service.

PropensityPlus

The Group has invested heavily in developing its proprietary PropensityPlus scoring model. This is proving to be a major competitive advantage as it drives a comprehensive underwriting process, enabled by the latest technology, leveraging a wide variety of current and historical data points, many of which are not used by traditional banks or other lenders. This provides extensive insight into the propensity for both the Directors and businesses to be successful going forward.

PropensityPlus achieves significant efficiencies leading to a faster finance application process and a much improved impairment experience across the loan book.

These benefits are seen as attractive both to borrowers and stakeholders as a whole.