Tikehau Capital Acquires Credit.fr and Expands Its Financing Solutions for Smaller Businesses
29 Junho 2017 - 2:15PM
Business Wire
Regulatory News:
Tikehau Capital (Paris:TKO) today announced it has completed the
acquisition of Credit.fr, the French specialist in crowdlending1
for small businesses financing, for an amount of €12 million.
Incubated since March 2015 by Truffle Capital and under the
leadership of Geoffroy Roux de Bézieux, its chairman since November
2015, Credit.fr has rapidly established itself as an essential
player in the small and mid-sized companies (SMEs) alternative
financing market.
This acquisition enables Tikehau Capital, a leading company
active in the corporate lending and private debt market in France,
to consolidate and expand its lending platform by bringing its
corporate financing solutions to smaller businesses and SMEs.
Through Credit.fr, Tikehau Capital will enable its wide network of
investors and partners to broaden their investment policy,
currently focused on medium-sized and larger companies, to include
smaller businesses rigorously selected by Credit.fr teams.
Credit.fr is renowned for the quality of its solutions, its
scoring system and its user-friendly website. The company has
revolutionised corporate access to credit by offering an extremely
rapid response based on a simplified administrative process. Since
its creation, Credit.fr has financed 217 companies, raising a total
of over EUR 13 million, through 13,000 loans from retail clients
willing to support the real economy while securing an attractive
return. Credit.fr has also established numerous partnerships with
financial sector players, including HelloBank!, the first French
bank recommending its clients to invest in a crowdlending platform
nearly a year ago.
Guillaume Arnaud, Managing Director of Tikehau IM, said:
“We have been monitoring SME crowdlending platforms in Europe for
some time now, particularly in France, where the market has strong
growth potential. The acquisition of Credit.fr provides us a unique
smaller business lending knowhow and allows us to expand our range
of financing solutions and therefore address most of French
companies.”
Thomas de Bourayne, CEO of Credit.fr added: “With its renowned
asset management expertise and strong growth, Tikehau Capital
represents the ideal partner for Credit.fr to develop in France and
internationally. This deal will enable us to offer institutional
investors solutions for investing in a new asset class and support
the development of small French businesses.”
About Tikehau Capital
Tikehau Capital is an asset management and investment group
which manages approximately €10bn of assets, with shareholders’
equity of €1.5bn. The group invests in various asset classes
(private debt, real-estate, private equity and liquid strategies),
including through its asset management subsidiary Tikehau IM, on
behalf of institutional and private investors. Controlled by its
managers, alongside leading institutional partners, Tikehau Capital
employs 170 staff in its Paris, Milan, Brussels, London and
Singapore offices.
Tikehau Capital is listed on Euronext Paris, compartment A (ISIN
code: FR0013230612; Ticker: TKO.FP)
www.tikehaucapital.com
About Credit.fr
Credit.fr, which was launched in March 2015, enables retail
clients to lend directly to rigorously-selected smaller businesses
and SMEs under advantageous conditions for the borrowing companies
and paying an attractive yield to lenders.
Credit.fr has been awarded the BPI Innovative Company label as
well as the Pôle Finance Innovation Fintech Excellence label.
For further information, please visit www.credit.fr
Follow us on:
Twitter: @creditFR
Facebook: Credit.fr
1 Crowdlending enables companies to take out loans from private
investors.
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Press contacts:Tikehau CapitalJulien Sanson, +33 1 40 06
18 40jsanson@tikehaucapital.frorGrégoire Lucas, +33 1 53 70 74
70glucas@image7.frorCredit.frLouis de Champs, +33 1 82 28 84
43ldechamps@credit.fr
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