| Date | Title | Description |
| 14.05.2025 | Linked Finance launches new fund after passing €350m in SME lending | Linked Finance is making €50m in new wholesale funding available to SMEs after announcing it has lent €350m to Irish businesses since launch in 2013.
More than 4,500 SMEs have borrowed through the Linked Finance peer-to-peer lending platfor... |
| 05.03.2025 | SME optimism at its highest for four years | SME optimism in Ireland is at its highest level for four years, according to a survey by SME lender Linked Finance and Ipsos B&A.
Confidence among Irish small and medium-sized businesses is now at the same level as in the second half of... |
| 05.12.2024 | Optimism within Irish SME sector at highest level in over a year | Optimism within the Irish SME sector is at its highest level for over a year - according to the Linked Finance SME Confidence Index.
Large SMEs, which employ between 10 and 250 employees, are the most upbeat, reporting a positivity rate of ... |
| 21.08.2024 | Optimism is high among Irish SMEs heading into the second half of 2024 | The majority of Irish SME businesses are heading into the second half of 2024 with optimism, despite unstable geo-political headwinds and instability in global stock markets the latest Linked Finance SME Confidence Index.
The information co... |
| 25.06.2024 | Businesses optimistic about future, but micro-SMEs being outpaced | Optimism among businesses in Ireland’s SME sector remains steady, according to the latest SME Confidence Index from Linked Finance.
The index scored SME optimism at 62.95 scored out of 100 in Q1, up slightly from 62.43 at the end of 2023 an... |
| 28.05.2024 | Linked Finance reaches €300m in SME lending milestone | Alternative SME Lender Linked Finance recently passed a milestone of lending over €300m since its launch in 2013.
The company has provided funding to 4,200 small- and medium-sized business over the past decade, and achieved a record year in... |
| 17.04.2024 | 58% of SMEs confident they can meet new wage requirements | Six in (58%) 10 Irish small businesses are confident they can meet all mandatory wage increases and supplementary business expenses linked to staff expenditures this year, according to the latest Linked Finance SME confidence index.
The min... |
| 20.02.2024 | Linked Finance partners with SCBI to offer €50m in low-cost loans to SMEs | Linked Finance will lend €50m at discounted rates to SMEs experiencing inflated input costs and supply chain disruption.
Under the Ukraine Credit Guarantee Scheme, SMEs that have seen costs rise by over 10% because of the war in Ukraine wil... |
| 03.11.2023 | Linked Finance: Fuelling the Growth of Irish SMEs | As traditional banks tighten their purse strings, Linked Finance has emerged as an effective and efficient source of business finance, offering accessible financing solutions to growing SMEs. Over the last decade, Linked Finance has firmly ... |
| 03.07.2023 | Linked Finance hits milestone of €250m in SME lending | Linked Finance has now lent more than €250m to Irish SMEs after lending a total of €31.7m during the first half of 2023, an increase of 90% year-on-year.
The alternative lender said it is experiencing compound annual growth of 50% year-on-y... |
| 29.03.2023 | Large firms pushing up prices more than SMEs | A Linked Finance survey has found that SMEs are less likely than larger peers to jack up prices.
Overall, the research shows businesses on a positive trajectory, with 73% of SMEs citing higher or level profits in 2022 compared with the prev... |
| 12.12.2022 | Confidence dips among Irish SMEs in Q3 | Confidence among Irish SMEs dipped in the third quarter but small business owners remain positive in outlook, according to the latest Linked Finance SME confidence index, based on research from Behaviours & Attitudes.
The business optim... |
| 22.09.2022 | Linked Finance hits €200m lending milestone | Peer-to-peer lending platform Linked Finance says it has loaned over €200m to SMEs since its inception nine years ago after doubling its annual lending over the past two years.
More than 3,330 SMEs have now borrowed from the company, which ... |
| 01.09.2022 | SMEs performing in line or ahead of expectations as 42% raise prices | Irish SMEs remain "resilient" in the face of rising inflation and the wider effects of the war in Ukraine, according to Linked Finance's SME Confidence Index.
The research, conducted for the P2P lending platform by Behaviours &... |
| 20.05.2022 | Business optimism down as SMEs feel pinch | Business optimism among Irish SMEs fell in the first quarter due to rising inflation compounded by the effects of the war in Ukraine, with companies more wary of current business conditions and their future prospects as a result.
Linked Fin... |
| 04.03.2022 | Linked Finance links Merchant Cash Advance loans with retailer card receipts | Linked Finance has launched a new lending product that enables businesses to unlock their daily cashflow from card payments as a source of financing.
Merchant Cash Advance allows businesses to borrow a lump sum and then repay it gradually t... |
| 10.06.2021 | Linked Finance Launches ‘Recharge’ Loans | Linked Finance has introduced a new ‘Recharge SMEs’ loan to provide hospitality businesses with up to €50,000 to help reopen, restock and rehire as pandemic restrictions are eased.
The term of the Recharge loan is 13 months, with no repayme... |
| 19.03.2020 | Coronacrisis: Linked Finance Shows Up Pillar Banks | Linked Finance has thrown down a challenge to the banks by implementing a blanket two-month payment break to all its loans to the restaurant, bar, pub and hotel trades.
“The break will be applied automatically, hassle free and with no forms... |
| 07.08.2018 | Linked Finance Grows Loan Book By 65% | Irish peer-to-peer (P2P) lender Linked Finance recorded its strongest quarter to date in Q2 2018, facilitating more than €10m in lending. Founded in 2013, Linked Finance connects individuals willing to lend to Irish SMEs.
The strong Q2 lend... |
| 06.08.2018 | Irish P2P Lender Linked Finance Hit €10 Million Loans Record During Second Quarter 2018 | Linked Finance, an Ireland-based peer-to-peer lending platform, recently announced it facilitated more than €10.1 million to Irish SMEs during the second quarter of 2018, which ended in June. The lender reported the second quarter success f... |
| 21.06.2018 | Linked Finance Secures €50m Funding | Irish peer-to-peer lender Linked Finance has secured €50m in funding from Banco BNI Europa, a Portuguese digital bank. The funds will be deployed over a two-year period to lend to Irish SMEs.
Banco BNI Europa was founded in 2014 and is a su... |
| 24.04.2018 | Linked Finance Hits €50m Lending Milestone | Peer-to-peer lender Linked Finance is celebrating five years in business, as the Irish firm hit the milestone of having lent more than €50m to Irish SMEs since it launched in 2013.
The €50m milestone was reached recently via a loan raised t... |
| 05.03.2018 | Crowdfunding Helped Create 2,400 Irish Jobs | Peer-to-peer lending site Linked Finance has helped create 2,400 new jobs since 2013 in the businesses that have raised money through its platform.
The figure comes from a recent survey carried out by Linked Finance among the businesses in ... |
| 12.12.2017 | Linked Finance Launches Pension Fund Lending | Peer-to-peer lender Linked Finance has launched a new type of account that allows holders of self-administered pensions to make P2P lending to Irish SMEs part of their pension investment portfolio.
According to the company, the accounts wer... |
| 12.10.2017 | Linked Finance Raises €2m In New Funding | Irish peer-to-peer lender Linked Finance has raised €2m in a funding round led by the company’s original VC backers, Frontline Ventures. The other investors are 28 individuals who are active lenders on the platform.
Linked Finance said the ... |
| 07.09.2017 | Big Red Cloud Borrows €100,000 On Linked Finance | Big Red Cloud has raised €100,000 in new loan finance using the Linked Finance lending platform. The lender says that loan volume in H1 2017 increased by 240% to €11.4m and that 1,000 loans have been effected since launch in 2013.
Linked Fi... |
| 15.04.2017 | Linked Finance Books €1.2m Loss | Peer to peer lending intermediary Linked Finance booked a loss of €1.2m in the year to end April 2016, according to filed accounts. The deficit in shareholders’ funds at year-end was €1.8m.
Long-term liabilities of €2.55m are thought to lar... |
| 15.12.2016 | Linked Finance Raises €150k For Iconic Offices | Peer-to-peer lenders Linked Finance has completed its biggest P2P loan yet, raising €150,000 for Iconic Offices, a serviced office and flexible workspace provider.
The loan is double the size of the previous biggest amount raised on Linked ... |
| 02.08.2016 | Linked Finance Appoints New Chief Executive | Linked Finance, Ireland’s leading peer-to-peer lending platform, has appointed Niall Dorrian as chief executive. He was previously Director of Mobile with eircom, and chief executive of several Digicel markets across the Caribbean and Centr... |
| 10.05.2016 | Pest Control Firm Raises €30k In 12 Hours | Peer to peer lending has worked out well for hygiene specialists Omega Pest Control after the company raised €30,000 in just over 12 hours via Linked Finance’s platform.
To date, all loans on the Linked Finance platform have followed the sa... |
| 21.09.2015 | Linked Finance Has €10m To Lend | A growing business can't justify waiting eight weeks for a loan decision from traditional banks. Linked Finance, the market leader in Peer to Peer (P2P) lending, offers SMEs a viable lending solution and currently has €10 million on the tab... |
| 30.07.2015 | Stretched With Loans? Try Crowd Funding | Linked Finance, the market leader in peer-to-peer lending in Ireland, recently passed the milestone of €10m loan bids on its platform. Not all those offers were drawn down but the total amount lent to 300 SME borrowers since the March 2013 ... |
| 14.04.2015 | Frontline's Cash Injection For Linked Finance | Timing is everything in comedy and business – just ask Peter O’Mahony. For the Linked Finance founder, strokes of luck have chimed with timeous planning with his various ventures over the years. With Linked Finance, O’Mahony introduced peer... |
| 16.03.2015 | Frontline VC Invests €2.5m In Linked Finance | Crowdfunding site Linked Finance has secured €2.5m in funding from Frontline Ventures Loans. The cash injection will be used to double Linked Finance’s headcount, as well as expand the business and improve its IT.
Linked Finance already has... |
