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Pedro Tavares, Founder & CEO of Altimapa Capital (left) with Steven D'Ambrosio, CEO of Sandfield Capital (right)
Pedro Tavares, Founder & CEO of Altimapa Capital (left) with Steven D'Ambrosio, CEO of Sandfield Capital (right)

Sandfield Capital, a lendtech company that provides loans to individuals pursuing legal claims, has secured a £20m credit facility via Ampla Finance to enable it to significantly expand its operations. The funding is the first tranche of a £100m fundraise being led by private debt finance specialist Altimapa Capital, which is transforming the way SMEs secure funding by engaging directly with a network of over 600 institutional investors.

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Picture by Stein Egil Liland (https://www.pexels.com/@therato/)

Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) play a vital role in the economy of Scandinavia, accounting for a significant portion of the region's GDP and employment. However, despite their importance, SMEs in Scandinavia challenges when it comes to funding their operations and growth.

In January 2020, Altimapa successfully secured a $5 million international receivables funding facility for Networked Energy Services Corporation (NES) based in California, USA. This facility upon drawdown was used to settle an existing Bank loan and provide working capital for growth.

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In the past few weeks, the Private Debt market and its participants were a frequent subject to headlines in the business and financial news. Does that mean that this market, now about a decade old in Europe and two decades old in the US, is becoming mainstream?

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As we have read in the media, there have been a number of very high profile banks announcing that they retreating from the Commodity Trade Finance (CTF) Space, with BNP Paribas, ABN Amro announcing a 6-12 month wind down, SocGen closing the Singapore hub, ING and Rabobank both reviewing. These announcements are merely the acceleration ...