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🚀 Challenger and specialist banks lead smaller business lending 📊 60% of gross bank lending in 2024 came from challenger banks. But use of external finance is down 9%. Download our 2025 Small Business Finance Markets report for more ⬇️ bit.ly/3F047Jv

New data from our #StartUpLoans programme shows a surge in aspiring entrepreneurs bringing their business ideas to life in the five years since the first lockdown 📈✨ Swipe for more findings ➡️

📢 42% of smaller businesses in Scotland struggle to access finance, but 70% are confident in meeting future finance needs. Our latest report with Business Gateway offers insights into Scottish smaller businesses’ access to finance landscape. Swipe for key findings ➡️

📢 Our Northern Ireland SME Access to finance report is out today. Swipe through to see the key challenges and opportunities for smaller businesses in the country.

📢 Our Wales SME Access to finance report is out today. Published with Development Bank of Wales, the report offers insights into Welsh smaller businesses’ access to finance landscape. Swipe through to see the key challenges and opportunities for smaller businesses in Wales ➡️

Just announced by the Chancellor: Our Growth Guarantee Scheme will provide approximately £500m of additional lending capacity to help smaller businesses that may need support due to changes in global tariff rates. Find out more below ⬇️

The expansion of the Growth Guarantee Scheme is an “important and necessary” step to help smaller businesses affected by changes in global tariff rates, says our Co-Chief Banking Officer Reinald de Monchy. Read more ➡️ bit.ly/3G8ADdi

📣 #ICYMI: Our Growth Guarantee Scheme will provide approximately £500m of additional lending capacity to help smaller businesses affected by changes in global tariff rates. Read more: bit.ly/3G8ADdi

More funding unlocked for UK creative businesses! 🎨🎮 Creative UK’s £35m specialist debt fund, Creative Growth Finance, has been accredited under the Growth Guarantee Scheme, helping more creative smaller businesses access the finance they need to grow and succeed.

📣 A key step towards launching the British Growth Partnership BBB Investment Services, the British Business Bank’s third-party arm, has received regulatory approval from the Financial Conduct Authority to provide investment services to clients. Read more 👇

📣 First exit for the Investment Fund for Northern Ireland Pilates reformer manufacturer Reform RX has become the first exit for the Investment Fund for Northern Ireland after the company was acquired by US-based connected fitness equipment leader iFIT.

🚨 Just announced: Our ENABLE programmes have delivered £5bn in lending to UK smaller businesses. 🏠 Supporting the building of 5,866 homes 📍 £3bn+ outside London and the South East 🏗️ £1.2bn to construction and housing Read more: bit.ly/3FCwVbR

We welcome today’s announcement by the Government, which is a strong endorsement of the Bank’s 10-year track record, market access and capabilities, says our CEO Louis Taylor.

🆕 The Government has confirmed £6.6bn of new capital for the British Business Bank to boost growth. A new £4bn initiative, British Business Bank Industrial Strategy Growth Capital, will be invested across eight growth-driving sectors. Read more: bit.ly/3G7jsZQ

📣 The Government is also providing an additional £2.6bn of capital to the British Business Bank to scale up its ambition by unlocking potential for entrepreneurs in driving the growth of smaller business across the UK’s Nations and regions. Read more: bit.ly/3G7jsZQ

📣 AI deals outpaced the wider UK equity market in 2024, shows our #EquityTracker25, published today. It was also a record-breaking year for university spinouts, cementing the UK’s status as a centre for world-leading research and development. Read more: bit.ly/4l1YevO

💬 2024 was a challenging year for equity finance, but the UK continues to perform well internationally, says our Chief Investment Officer Leandros Kalisperas. Read #EquityTracker25 here: bit.ly/4l1YevO