We’re currently in the process of applying for our banking licence, aiming to disrupt the UK business lending market. The majority of lending to small and medium businesses (or SMEs) is through the big High Street banks – but they have outdated ‘legacy’ systems, rigid computer algorithms, and faceless, centralised processing centres. SMEs have to jump through hoops and face an impersonal ‘computer says no’ approach, with it taking an average of more than four months before they get their cash, meaning their development plans have to be put on hold.
B-North is going to change all that.
Founded by a team of experts with decades of experience in financial services, including launching and scaling challenger banks such as First Direct, Atom Bank, Metro Bank and Santander UK, B-North is using the latest in cloud-based technology, married with face to face relationship building. This means we will really get to know our borrowers and their business so we can provide lending solutions fit their needs. We’ve also started with a blank sheet of paper and worked with business owners to build our customer journey from the ground up, and this – together with our technology – means we can reduce that time to cash for borrowers to as little as two weeks.
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In December 2018 B-North was formally established as we closed the first tranche of our £4m seed funding round. We pre-empted this with our first Regulatory Business Plan submission to the PRA and FCA in November 2018.
Since then we have:
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