As of 2020, the leading lender to businesses in the United Kingdom (UK) was the Bank Business Lending (BoE) with a total of almost 104 billion British pounds. Peer-to-peer business lending has the lowest volume among all entities, but has been growing steadily since 2012, amounting to 4.02 billion British pounds in 2020.
Annual volume of different business lending in the United Kingdom (UK) from 2012 to 2020, by lender
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Supplementary notes
(BoE) Bill of Exchange
(BBA) British Banking Association.
The source added the following information: "in 2020, the data sample includes 654 firm-level observations in Europe, 53 in China, 342 in APAC (excluding China), 205 in LAC, 76 in MENA, 191 in SSA, 72 in the US and Canada, and 67 firms in the UK."
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