S&U’s car finance business, Advantage, continues to make strong progress and has recorded compound annual growth in customer receivables of 34% in the last five years. The business is set to remain the principal growth driver for the group, but S&U has identified secured bridging finance as a potentially attractive area in which to deploy some of its lending capacity and plans to launch a pilot business by the end of 2016. If fruitful, this business would provide both diversification and an additional avenue for growth.
