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Aldermore is pleased to announce a significant enhancement to its SME lending service, by increasing the scope of its automatic credit decisions to include non-limited businesses, additional asset valuations, and by increasing soft asset automation up to £100k.

For this business, decisions are now provided back to brokers within just 10 seconds. This means Aldermore’s brokers can give their customers rapid, streamlined funding decisions for asset finance arrangements. 

Effective immediately, the changes apply to hire purchase and finance lease applications, enabling a broader range of lending requests to flow through Aldermore’s automated decisioning engine. This upgrade is part of the Bank’s wider digital innovation programme, which seeks to deliver faster outcomes and a smoother journey for their brokers’ business customers. 

 

Driving faster, more consistent decisions 

Aldermore has rolled out several key enhancements to its automated decisioning system: 

  • Expanded automated tolerances across a wider range of underwriting metrics, enabling quicker decisions on thousands more applications.
  • Inclusion of sole traders and partnerships in auto-decisioning, unlocking faster, consistent decisions for an entirely new segment of broker clients. 
  • These enhancements mean that brokers who submit a digital proposal can get a decision in under 10 seconds.

 

Lee Rhodes, Commercial Director for Asset Finance at Aldermore comments:

“By expanding our auto-decisioning capability, we’re reinforcing Aldermore’s pledge to back UK SMEs with cutting-edge technology and expert support. This change allows us to deliver more instant approvals, where they’re required, giving entrepreneurs the clarity they need to grow, without compromising on the careful credit assessment our clients rely on. Equally, these enhancements allow our people to focus their time and attention on the larger or more complex cases that require their expertise.” 

 


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