British Business Bank among guests at Commercial Finance Expo 2015
With less than one month to go until the NACFB’s sixth Commercial Finance Expo on 17 June, the NACFB can announce the presence of some big and influential names.
We will be joined by a representative of the British Business Bank. The British Business Bank was set up in 2012 to access other forms of finance for SMEs outside of the obvious lenders. Its aim was to input £10bn extra into SME lending over a period of years. Three years on, the British Business Bank has introduced billions of pounds to a field of more than ten thousand UK businesses. The British Business Bank also has £1bn earmarked solely for matched funds – effectively doubling the benefit to the market.
We are also very pleased that the FCA will be undertaking a short presentation certain to be of interest to all brokers, lenders and funders, and that they have also agreed to be part of our compliance session which is one of the topics that we will run in the Conference Theatre.
They will be there to clarify points of debate and to answer questions from the floor – and we expect there will be lots of questions! It’s great that the FCA is biting the bullet and coming out in person so we can put a face (and a voice) to the organisation.
New this year is a marquee-style Business Lounge, which joins the Conference Theatre as a venue-within-a-venue. All of them are set to be full on the day, as we are expecting a crowd of 1300 delegates. With 120 exhibitors, including dozens of names here for the first time this year, we’ve increased the size and scope of an event that’s been growing since it first began in 2010.
Interested delegates can register to attend at: www.commercialfinanceexpo.co.uk