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Catch up on our latest news and press releases.

Q2 2020 Update

31 JUL 2020

Despite a very challenging market backdrop, substantial progress has been made in the second quarter of the year. The bank licence process has been completed, subject only to the completion…

Q2 2020 Update Q2 press coverage

Powering the North

16 DEC 2019

Jonathan Thompson & Dave Broadbent of B-North

SME’s are the bread and butter of the UK economy. The North is slightly more reliant on SMEs than the rest of the country. According to an IPPR report in February 2019, 99.8% of North England businesses have fewer than 250 employees. Read the full article in Business Chief here...

How the UK can get better at growing SMEs

8 NOV 2019

The Manchester Evening News interviewed our Chair - Ron Emerson CBE - on his views on the UK SMEs and local banking. Banking veteran Ron Emerson has been changing the way money is lent to the SME sector. As the former chair of the British Business Bank, the UK government’s economic development bank aimed at improving access to finance, he helped…

Q3 update

31 OCT 2019

B-North will disrupt the £150bn UK business lending market by: Using its FinTech enabled lending platform to deliver up to 10x faster than the large incumbents Combining this with a unique, regional distribution model; and Delivering a unique economic proposition which supports the large, fast-growing and fragmented broker channel. Find out more…

B-North submits banking licence application

2 OCT 2019

We’re very pleased to announce that we have submitted our application for a banking licence to the regulator.