Optimum Finance reaches new heights in campaign for SME growth

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Peter Davison

Ant Persse

Bristol-based invoice finance provider Optimum Finance has announced another record month as the company continues to consolidate its mission to support the growth ambitions of small and medium sized UK businesses.

With last month seeing record numbers regarding funding facilities supplied to SMEs, and client turnover 23 per cent higher than the equivalent period in 2022, Optimum Finance is reaching new heights. It achieved revenue growth of 35 per cent, and a 21 per cent increase in gross receivables, with plans to substantially increase funding capacity to support new and future clients.

A feature of the last 12 months has been the diversity of the portfolio it supports, whilst broadening the types of businesses it can support enabling them to access more businesses, however, this diversity also supports the business spread risk exposure to any one business type or industry.

Invoice Finance uses receivables (invoices) as the principal asset against which money can be raised. Optimum Finance pays its SME clients an agreed percentage of the invoice value as soon as it is submitted, driving access to liquidity at the point of invoice as opposed to needing to wait.

Ant Persse (pictured), CEO of Optimum Finance, said the evident successes of the last few months are testament to the work done by Optimum’s excellent team members and leaders:

“Optimum is deeply committed to supporting as many SMEs as possible, providing them with the critical liquidity they need, especially during these times of economic turbulence,” he explained.

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“Every single member of the Optimum team is dedicated to delivering exceptional service to our amazing clients and introducers. I couldn’t be more proud of our team and what we have achieved to date.

"In fact, we recently decided to reward every single one of our team by recognising them as a superstar that accompanied a reward for their incredible efforts.”

Optimum Finance’s impressive growth will also create more opportunities, with the company welcoming additional team members to the sales and operations functions in the upcoming weeks.

Peter Davison

Peter Davison is deputy editor of The Business Magazine. He has spent his life in journalism – doing work experience in newsrooms in and around Bristol while still at school, and landing his first job on a local newspaper aged 19. By 28 he was the youngest newspaper editor in the country. An early advocate of online news, he spent the first years of the 2000s telling his bosses that the internet posed both the biggest opportunity and greatest threat to the newspaper industry and the art of journalism. He was right on both counts. Since 2006 he has enjoyed a career as a freelance journalist. He lives in rural Wiltshire with one wife, two children, and three cats.