Waterfall Asset Management to fund £1 billion of SME loans through Funding Circle platform
Funding Circle Holdings plc (“Funding Circle”), the leading small business loans platform in the UK, US, Germany and the Netherlands(1), announces that Funding Circle UK and Waterfall Asset Management, LLC (“Waterfall”), a leading institutional asset manager focused on structured credit, have entered into a strategic partnership to support the growth of UK small businesses. Under the terms of the agreement, Waterfall will invest in £1 billion of loans originated through Funding Circle’s UK platform over a two-year period. Waterfall’s investment will be partially financed by Deutsche Bank.