    {"id":45631,"date":"2023-06-21T14:01:00","date_gmt":"2023-06-21T14:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.whatjobs.com\/news\/?p=45631"},"modified":"2023-06-21T14:01:00","modified_gmt":"2023-06-21T14:01:00","slug":"amazon-launches-flexible-financing-programme-for-uk-businesses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.whatjobs.com\/news\/amazon-launches-flexible-financing-programme-for-uk-businesses\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon launches flexible financing programme for UK businesses"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Amazon has established a flexible lending initiative for small and medium-sized enterprises in the UK.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Businesses who sell products on the marketplace can request for finance ranging from \u00a3500 to \u00a32 million, based on <a href=\"https:\/\/uk.whatjobs.com\/jobs\/affordability\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Find affordability jobs on WhatJobs.com\"><strong>affordability<\/strong><\/a>, through their current business accounts, allowing them to &#8220;repay as they earn.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Once accepted, sellers pay a single fixed charge with repayments based on a percentage of their future <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whatjobs.com\/news\/amazon-alters-business-practices-to-avoid-possible-47-billion-european-fine\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Find Amazon jobs on WhatJobs.com\"><strong>Amazon <\/strong><\/a>sales, giving them greater cash-flow flexibility.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><strong>Need Career Advice?&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.whatjobs.com\/career-advice\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.whatjobs.com\/info\/category\/career-advice\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Get employment skills advice at all levels of your career<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Repayments are then only required when sellers sell, protecting them during slower times.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The online <a href=\"https:\/\/uk.whatjobs.com\/jobs\/retail\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Find retail jobs on WhatJobs.com\"><strong>retail<\/strong><\/a> giant is working in collaboration with the London-based finance firm YouLend, <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>YouLend chief commercial officer Jakob Pethick said: \u201cSupporting businesses is core to our mission,\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThat is why we are pleased to partner with Amazon to support the growth of their sellers by providing fast, flexible, and affordable financing. Amazon sellers will now be able to access revenue-based financing from YouLend to thrive and grow.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><strong>Follow us on&nbsp;<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCq7Ngf1IK1GJMZUmg6WXVfg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>YouTube<\/strong><\/a><strong>,&nbsp;<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WhatJobsNews\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Twitter<\/strong><\/a><strong>,&nbsp;<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/whatjobsnews\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>LinkedIn<\/strong><\/a><strong>, and&nbsp;<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/whatjobsnews\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Facebook<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon, in collaboration with the London-based finance firm YouLend, has established a flexible lending initiative for small and medium-sized enterprises in the UK.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":45632,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[414,1065],"tags":[57],"class_list":["post-45631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uk-business-news","category-us-business-news","tag-amazon"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whatjobs.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whatjobs.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whatjobs.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whatjobs.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whatjobs.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.whatjobs.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45631\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whatjobs.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whatjobs.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whatjobs.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whatjobs.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}