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Structured Guarantees

Descriptions

The British Business Bank (BBB) is the UK economic development bank with an objective of making finance markets work better for small businesses. The BBB typically operates on a wholesale basis through the existing financial ecosystem with lenders partnering with the BBB in areas that increase the supply, diversity and regionality of finance for UK SMEs.

 

Structured Guarantees (SGs) is one of the wholesale product offerings provided by the BBB. It primarily supports the BBB's objectives by aiming to increase the availability of finance to UK SMEs and promoting competition within the SME debt finance market. It does this by encouraging lenders to increase their lending by, for example, addressing the high capital consumption associated with such lending.

 

SGs is branded as two separate programmes, but the underlying aims and structures are broadly the same for both:

1.ENABLE Guarantees: This programme is operated on behalf of the Department of Business and Trade (DBT). It was announced at the Government's 2013 Autumn Statement, with the first Request for Proposals (RFP) published in 2014. The programme was initially only open to banks but expanded to include non-banks in 2019. This programme is not limited in the types of lending it can support, as long as the underlying lending is targeted at UK SMEs. Examples of the types of lending supported include secured lending against commercial property to support a business's working capital or growth needs, dealer floorplan finance, and asset / invoice finance.

 

2.ENABLE Build: The programme was launched in 2019 with the BBB operating the scheme on behalf of Ministry for Housing Community and Local Government (MHCLG), the government department responsible for housebuilding. Unlike ENABLE Guarantees, the programme only supports finance going to smaller housebuilders.

 

Under both programmes, the BBB (acting on behalf of the government) take on a portion of the risk of a portfolio of debt finance to SMEs, in return for a fee. The guarantee is priced and structured such that a positive return is expected for government under all but the most adverse economic scenarios.

 

Lenders under the programmes are required to report monthly or quarterly on the performance of the transactions. They are required to submit loan level information across a number of fields, some of which are consistent across transactions and some of which are transaction specific. Currently, banks submit this data in three separate files, while non-bank financial institutions (NBFIs) submit all data in one file across separate tabs. NBFI submissions have consistently been poor in quality and format causing significant operational inefficiencies and risk exposure.

 

The three separate files submitted by banks contain loan-level regulatory data and BBB-specific fields, but data validation rules cannot be applied unless the data is merged, which is a manual and time-consuming process.

 

Currently all reporting by the BBB is being done manually via excel but given the complex nature of each portfolio, the Structured Financial Institutions Solutions (SFIS) team spend a significant amount of time managing each transaction to ensure adherence to the terms of the structure.

 

Each transaction is structured specifically for each lender which means the chosen supplier will need to independently acquire a detailed understanding of the legal documents and the terms contained within them, as well as of the underlying portfolio and data.

 

What are our goals

As the programmes scale, the BBB is looking for a partner to provide expert knowledge in structured finance transactions including independent interpretation of legal documents, translating them into automated rules which would feed into a technology solution accessible to both BBB, lenders, and a calculation agent. The objective is to streamline and de-risk the manual processes from both the perspective of the lender and the Banking Operations team.

 

Tenderers are also directed to the Specification for the Project Requirements, as set out in Appendix 6 (Specification) of the Invitation To Participate (ITP).

 

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Timeline

Published Date :

17th Nov 2025 Yesterday

Deadline :

22nd Dec 2025 in a 1 month

Contract Start :

31st Mar 2026

Contract End :

31st Mar 2031

Keywords

asset management

investment portfolio

fund management

discretionary management

wealth management

portfolio advisory

financial asset allocation

investment planning

fund oversight

client portfolio services

trading operations

market operations support

transaction monitoring

trading execution support

platform operation

market data services

operational trading services

exchange operations management

market logistics

trading system support

data processing services

batch computing

automated data handling

IT operations processing

transaction processing

digital transformation workflows

data computation

real-time data execution

backend data processing

mass data management

IT support consulting

tech advisory services

systems assistance

computing guidance

technology troubleshooting consultancy

operational support advisory

technical IT consultancy

hybrid support services

professional tech consultation

systems aid

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Status :

Open

Procedure :

N/A

Suitable for SME :

Yes

Nationwide :

No

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Tender Progress :

0%

Details

Notice Type :

Tender

Tender Identifier :

IT-378-246-T: 2024 - 001

Tenderbase ID :

310724019

Low Value :

£100K

High Value :

£1000K

Buyer Information

Address :

Liverpool Merseyside , Merseyside , L13 0BQ

Website :

N/A

Procurement contact

Name :

Tina Smith

Phone :

0151 252 3243

Email :

tina.smith@shared-ed.ac.uk

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