We’re taking another look back at the debut edition of FTT SME Banking, powered by FintechOS, where our highly-curated speaker lineup dished the deal on the state of SME finance, cross-sector collaboration and the innovations making waves across the economy. After joining a successful panel discussing the need for speed in SME lending, Kristjan Kaar, Chief

FTT Lending 3.0 is upon us! Ahead of the biggest lending show in the UK, we’re taking a closer look at a key theme for the sector: SME Finance. With a record number of small to medium businesses uncertain about getting a loan, how are today’s lenders and fintechs innovating to serve these underserved companies?

Raffaela Kestel, Senior Product Director at Validis, speaks the barriers that SMEs face in securing funding. It’s a big issue – 100,000 SMEs to the tune of £4 billion of funding are being rejected by lenders. Getting SMEs what they need when they need it is central to their mission. Validis extract data, normalize it

On 16th November, the open finance community took their seats to hear from some of the leaders in SME finance. The panel, titled , Open for business: innovation in SME finance, explored some of the key challenges that SMEs are facing at this stage in the pandemic, how open banking is accelerating the process of