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Funding Options Limited,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Funding Options Limited: CEO and Executives - Businessweek )〕 trading as Funding Options, is an online aggregator for SME finance based in the United Kingdom. It has been described by British national newspaper The Telegraph as “the matchmaking website for small businesses and lenders”,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=New app Tendr acts as matchmaker for startups and investors )〕 and claims to have helped small businesses to raise tens of millions of pounds of finance.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Finding Finance: Funding Options CEO Conrad Ford on Their Finance Journey )〕 Funding Options was founded by current Chief Executive Conrad Ford, who formerly worked at a major bank.〔 In 2012, Funding Options was one of the first recipients of a new type of grant from Innovate UK, the United Kingdom's innovation agency, and has latterly featured as a case study of state-supported innovation.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Tech City start-up wins £2 million investment )〕 Also in 2012, Funding Options was a global finalist in a competition run by SWIFT to identify promising new financial technology firms.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=SWIFT - Innotribe Announces Finalists for Startup Challenge at Sibos, Osaka )〕 Funding Options currently appears on the United Kingdom government’s open data app store.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Apps - data.gov.uk )〕 In July 2015, Funding Options was shortlisted by the British Business Bank for a program to require traditional banks to refer any SME whose loan has been rejected to an alternative lending platform, as part of 2015 legislation called the Small Business Enterprise and Employment Act.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Funding Options & Finpoint Shortlisted for British Business Bank Referral Program )〕 In April 2015 Funding Options raised £2 million in a mix of ordinary and preference shares from GLI Finance Limited (GLIF), an AIM-listed SME finance specialist.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Investment in SME credit broker Funding Options )〕 The trademark of Funding Options is registered with the United Kingdom Intellectual Property Office.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Intellectual Property Office - By number results )〕 ==References== * * * 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Funding Options」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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