Time Finance lending book grows 12% to record £236m

Time Finance plc

Time Finance plc (LON:TIME), the AIM listed independent specialist finance provider, has announced that it will be providing a scheduled trading update for the nine-month period ended 28 February 2026 on 24 March 2026, a period in which the Group has continued to see strong demand following its robust H1 25/26 performance.

Record high Lending Book

Continued demand from UK businesses for the Group’s multi-product funding offering has driven further growth in the gross lending book. This stood at a record high of more than £236m at the end of February 2026, 12% up on the prior year comparative (28 February 2025: £210m); representing the nineteenth consecutive quarter of loan book growth for the Company.

The Group’s two core areas of strategic focus, Invoice Finance and the ‘Hard’ element of Asset finance, have driven the growth in the lending book. At 28 February the Invoice Finance and ‘Hard’ Asset Finance lending books stood at £78m and £129m respectively, reflecting growth of 20% in respect of the Invoice Finance division and 22% in respect of the ‘Hard’ element of the Asset Finance division when compared to the prior year comparatives at 28 February 2025.

Notice of Trading Update

The Group is planning to publish a trading update on Tuesday 24 March in relation to 9M 25/26. In addition, the Group is planning to publish a full year 2025/26 trading update on Thursday 25 June 2026.

For more information and the chance to have your questions directly answered by the management team, please head to Time Finance’s interactive investor hub via: https://investors.timefinance.com/s/71ba43. Here you will find company news and additional content to further explain Time Finance’s strategy and developments; including the most recent webinar which is available for on-demand viewing where Ed Rimmer, CEO, and James Roberts, CFO, discuss the Company’s H1 25/26 results.

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