Asset Finance Connect’s conference will focus on supply and demand challenges for the UK asset finance market

UK under pressure: how specialist lenders are navigating policy, regulatory and technology disruption

Dedicated streams of content for asset finance and term loans; receivables finance, vendor finance, auto finance and technology.

Three forces are reshaping specialist lending simultaneously. Government is intervening at scale — through the BBB's £25.6bn lending programmes and the Modern Industrial Strategy's eight priority sectors — to drive investment into SMEs and the assets that will define the next decade of the UK economy. Regulation is targeting conduct in intermediary-introduced lending, with the FCA's motor finance redress scheme raising questions that extend well beyond auto finance into any specialist lending vertical where dealers, brokers, or introducers sit between lender and borrower. And AI is moving from experiment to production — bringing genuine efficiency gains, a transformed fraud threat, and accountability questions that senior managers cannot delegate.

UK under pressure brings together senior practitioners across asset finance, equipment finance, auto finance, and receivables finance for a day of structured, lender-centred discussion across three parallel streams.