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  • Flexibility

    With greater flexibility of primary asset type, you can leverage plant and machinery, property and receivables to unlock capital to keep cash flowing.

  • Funding

    We can help your business to grow by unlocking an even higher level of funding that can be scaled as your business does. With bespoke repayment structures, we create a facility unique to you.

  • Service

    With a dedicated relationship manager a phone call away and an ABL structuring manager to tailor solutions to suit event-driven change, we’ve got a team of experts to give you the support you need to grow.

What is Asset Based Lending?

Many businesses navigating business finance often wonder what is Asset Based Lending. It’s when a business uses its existing assets as collateral to secure funding unlocking cash otherwise tied up, and providing a higher availability of working capital when compared with traditional lending facilities.

It’s a fast and effective way to fund growth and it’s scalable, ideal for event driven change such as MBOs, MBIs, restructuring, mergers or acquisitions. It’s a mix of revolving and term facilities, with available working capital growing in line with your business.

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Benefits of Asset Based Lending

An Asset Based Lending facility unlocks working capital tied up in business assets. Whatever your individual requirements are, we’ll work with you to understand your business needs and design a tailor-made funding facility to meet them.

At a glance, benefits of our Asset Based Lending services include:

  • Flexible and Transparent with an upfront made-to-measure proposal for your business, that includes a clear structure of your funding and pricing, so you know exactly what you’re getting
  • Day-to-Day Support from dedicated locally based relationship managers who are on hand to help you as little or as much as you need, and an ABL structuring manager to tailor solutions to suit event-driven change
  • As Part of Your Team we understand business isn’t always straightforward. We really get to understand your plans and ambitions, which means we can support both steady growth and big plans.
  • Optional Peace of Mind with Bad Debt Protection, secure your cash flow if your customer can’t pay. You’ll still receive payment for all your hard earned sales, safeguarding your business against any potential losses.
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Asset Based Lending FAQs

Asset Based Lending finance may be suitable for your business if:

  • You are a larger company with a combination of assets, ABL could provide your business with the cash and headroom you need to grow.
  • You need funding for transactions such as expansion plans, management buy outs (MBOs), management buy-ins (MBIs) and mergers and acquisitions.

We can help turn your ambitions into reality. From expansion plans to new acquisitions, relieving cash flow pressures to reducing finance costs, we'll tailor our service around your particular requirements, so you get the funding that's right for you.

We can help a range of businesses in different sectors such as manufacturing, services, haulage and transport, printers, distributors, importers, wholesalers and more. 

Asset Based Lending provides funding against the value of the multiple assets within your business, including debtors, plant & machinery and property. With an Asset Based Lending loan, the cash held within these assets is then released to provide additional working capital.

It works in conjunction with an invoice finance facility which will be required to utilise the benefits of Asset Based Lending and provide an on-going line of credit that grows with your business.

The Asset Based Lending process:

  1. Get in touch with us by phone, email, or our call back request form.
  2. We will come to visit your business and value your assets.
  3. We will then provide you with clear and transparent structure of your funding and pricing, so you know what you’re getting.
  4. Once everything is agreed, we will then forward you the Asset Based Lending funds.

Bad debt protection

At Aldermore, we understand that it's sometimes difficult to assess the risk of customers not being able to pay. The decision you make could lead you to turn away sales or even end up with a bad debt. Our Bad Debt Protection (BDP) service gives you the confidence of knowing you will receive payment for all your hard earned sales.

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Subject to status. Security may be required. Any property or asset used as security may be at risk if you do not repay any debt secured on it.