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UK B2B credit and lending news digest, 7–13 June 2026 Summary New this week: UK monthly GDP turned negative for the first time since August 2025, contracting 0.1% in April as the Middle East conflict fed through to services output.(1)(2) What matters isn't the
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For most credit controllers, the aged debt report is still the starting point for the day. It shows what is overdue, how long it has been overdue, and where the biggest balances sit. But aged debt only tells you what has already happened. For experienced credit controllers, especially those managing
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UK B2B credit and lending news digest, 17–23 May 2026 Opening Summary The British Business Bank confirmed a £350m ENABLE Guarantee with Allica Bank, including Sona Asset Management as another investor, to unlock up to £700m of SME asset-finance lending.¹ This is the week’s clearest credit-supply
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UK B2B Credit and Lending News Digest 10–16 May 2026 – Covering 10–16 May 2026. Summary Funding Circle’s 2025 Economic Impact Report, produced with Oxford Economics, confirmed that alternative providers and challenger banks now account for 68% of UK SME lending, making the Big Four the structural minority.
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Checking credit risk is like checking the structural health of a bridge before sending heavy trucks across it. The bridge may still be open, but you need to know if cracks are forming, whether the load is getting heavier, and when it is time to slow down, reroute, or stop
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For decades, commercial credit assessment has suffered from the same fundamental problem. Most decisions are made using static snapshots of businesses that are constantly changing. Financial statements are outdated by the time they are filed. Credit reports often miss operational deterioration. Manual reviews depend heavily on fragmented data, analyst interpretation,
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UK B2B Credit Intelligence Digest — 3–9 May 2026 Summary The Construction Products Association cut its UK construction forecast to −2.5% for 2026, its biggest single downgrade on record, and the April construction PMI collapsed to 39.7 (from 45.6 in March). Two things to watch underneath the
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There's a question that shaped everything we built over the last year. What if AI's role in credit isn't to make the decision, but to help the person making it understand what's changing before it's too late? That question led
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There's an old saying in business. What gets measured gets managed. But today, UK CFOs are discovering a harder truth. What doesn't get automated gets left behind. Across British boardrooms, the pressure to adopt artificial intelligence has stopped being a strategic conversation and started being a
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Risk moves off bank balance sheets — toward directors, suppliers and specialist finance — Covering 19–25 April 2026 · Published Tuesday 28 April 2026 Summary This week’s credit signal is fragmentation, not uniform tightening. Banks are still competing on mortgage pricing, while SME risk is surfacing through director guarantees, supplier payment
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One thing we keep hearing from partners is just how fast we ship new stuff. We assumed, from years of building, that this was normal. It’s not. They’re used to incumbents moving in rigid cycles. A new product every few years. A feature release once a year. The
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Running a company credit check once is like checking the weather the morning before a week-long sailing trip. Useful but not the same as watching the forecast every day. But most businesses are running them at the wrong moment, reading them the wrong way, and treating a single report