{"id":2027,"date":"2021-04-20T07:47:00","date_gmt":"2021-04-20T07:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/smeloans.com\/?p=2027"},"modified":"2024-02-20T07:52:05","modified_gmt":"2024-02-20T07:52:05","slug":"irish-p2p-lender-smashes-e150m-lending-milestone-as-appetite-for-sme-loans-continues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smeloans.com\/index.php\/2021\/04\/20\/irish-p2p-lender-smashes-e150m-lending-milestone-as-appetite-for-sme-loans-continues\/","title":{"rendered":"Irish P2P lender smashes \u20ac150m lending milestone as appetite for SME loans continues"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>As small and medium businesses continue to be hardest hit by the Covid-19 pandemic, alternative lenders remain an invaluable crutch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thanks to a bumper year,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.altfi.com\/companies\/linked-finance\">Linked Finance&nbsp;<\/a>has surpassed \u20ac150m dished out to more than 2,700 SMEs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Irish peer-to-peer lender flew past the milestone after issuing \u20ac9.6m in loans in the first quarter of 2021, a four per cent increase on the year before.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cReaching the milestone of \u20ac150m shows the continuing migration there is by SMEs to the fast and efficient approach that alternative fintech lenders like&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.altfi.com\/companies\/linked-finance\">Linked Finance&nbsp;<\/a>can offer,\u201d Niall O\u2019Grady, CEO of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.altfi.com\/companies\/linked-finance\">Linked Finance,<\/a>&nbsp;said.<\/p>\n<cite><a href=\"https:\/\/www.altfi.com\/article\/7794_irish-p2p-lender-smashes-eur150m-lending-milestone-as-appetite-for-sme-loans-continues\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.altfi.com\/article\/7794_irish-p2p-lender-smashes-eur150m-lending-milestone-as-appetite-for-sme-loans-continues<\/a><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As small and medium businesses continue to be hardest hit by the Covid-19 pandemic, alternative lenders remain an invaluable crutch. Thanks to a bumper year,&nbsp;Linked Finance&nbsp;has surpassed \u20ac150m dished out to more than 2,700 SMEs. 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