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Supporting UK growth through SME funding. Helping UK businesses grow and enable them to deliver essential services to their customers.

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Navigator Trading Ltd

Quick Facts

Navigator Trading Ltd provides an alternative source of finance to UK SMEs. As a diversified leasing and lending business, we provide funding that helps businesses grow or enables them to deliver essential services to their customers.

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We focus on each individual business’s requirements, developing funding solutions that are tailored to best fit their strategic ambitions.

 

We are part of a new generation of lenders, adaptable and focused on the realities of today’s marketplace. We understand the needs of our customers and bring together a distinctive combination of skills and experience to deliver private capital solutions which offer creativity, flexibility, and value.

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Whilst we are future focused, we are also proud of our track record and believe in providing the accessibility and service associated with a traditional bank manager.

 
We offer support in five business areas:
Leasing​

Leasing enables UK SMEs to finance the purchase of business and service critical assets. 

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Receivables Finance

A longstanding and well established market, NTL provides funding against amounts that are due to be received for goods and services already supplied.

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Secured Lending

Secured Lending is the provision of capital for SMEs who need finance for growth, acquisition or existing shareholder buyout. It also includes provision of debt to private sector counterparties to develop and/or operate infrastructure assets, generally in the energy and social infrastructure sub-sectors which will benefit from long-term regular income streams and / or robust underlying asset values.

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Secured Property Finance

In this business segment short and long term finance is provided for residential, commercial and development property. All of the loans funded have strong security over the underlying property and prudent loan-to-value ratios.

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Working Capital Loans
Working Capital Loans is the provision of essential short term finance to small businesses which could be in lieu of traditional bank overdrafts.

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Meet the Team 

Individuals with significant experience
in the alternative finance sector.

Toby Furnival
Managing Director 

Toby was appointed a director of the Company in March 2021. He has 18 years’ experience in lending, having worked in Banking for the majority of his career before joining a Peer to Peer lending platform. He has a degree in Financial Services & Business Management and is a qualified member of the Association of Certified Chartered Accountants.

Michael Bayer
Director

Michael was appointed a Director in March 2021. Michael has held a number of finance and investment positions including leading the investment and subsequent realisation for the pioneering Triple Point VCTs. He has 26 years’ experience in the financial and investment sectors and has held roles at 3i plc, Dresdner Kleinwort and Ernst & Young in their private equity, leveraged finance and corporate finance teams. Michael qualified as a Chartered Accountant with Ernst & Young and holds the Advanced Diploma in Corporate Finance from the Corporate Finance Faculty of the ICAEW/CISI. Michael has a degree in Physics and Business Studies from the University of Warwick.

Chris Fleming Brown
Independent Director

Chris was appointed a director of the Company in January 2014. He has wide experience in corporate and private client financial services having previously held the position of director at Schroders merchant bank, Credit Suisse Private Banking, Barclays Wealth, Egerton Partners private client advisers and EFG Private Bank. He is also currently a director of a West London property investment company specialising in retail property. He has an Economics degree from London School of Economics.

Mike Francis 
Independent Director

Mike was appointed a director of the Company in October 2022. He has over 30 years of experience in financial services having built a market leading asset finance practice at Investec before becoming co-head of the investment banking division. He has a biochemistry degree from University College of Wales and is a fellow of the Association of Certified Chartered Accountants.

Sean Brophy
Director

Sean was appointed a director of the Company in November 2023. Sean has 18 years’ experience in Banking across real estate, leveraged finance and debt restructuring specialisms, working across both mainstream banking and alternative finance. Sean has degrees in Finance and Economics and completed an MBA in Imperial College Business School where his thesis focused on lending to high-growth businesses in the UK.

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OUR ADDRESS

Navigator Trading Limited

1 King William Street â€‹

London 

EC4N 7AF 

United Kingdom 

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