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What we do

At Close Brothers we provide financial support and advice to small businesses and individuals in the UK.

Asset Finance

Close Brothers Asset Finance offers a range of flexible funding options enabling you to purchase new equipment or refinance existing assets. Asset finance is perfect for businesses looking for the flexibility to grow the way they want to, without compromising cash flow.
Asset Finance
  • Hire Purchase

  • Refinance / Capital Release

  • Finance Lease

  • Operating Lease

Aviation and Marine

Close Brothers Aviation and Marine offer tailored specialist finance for new and pre-owned aircraft, commercial vessels and leisure boats.
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  • Aviation Finance

  • Marine Finance

Braemar Finance ROI

Braemar Finance provide a range of Loan, Leasing and Hire Purchase finance options to the professional services sector in Ireland, including optical, veterinary, dental, accountancy, legal, pharmacy, medical and funeral.
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  • Equipment finance

  • Business Loans

Braemar Finance UK

Braemar Finance provide a range of Loan, Leasing and Hire Purchase finance options to the professional services sector in the UK, including optical, veterinary, dental, accountancy, legal, pharmacy, medical and funeral.
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  • Equipment Finance

  • Personal Loans

  • Business Loans

Brewery Rentals

Close Brothers Brewery Rentals works with businesses of all sizes to provide keg and cask rentals, container maintenance services and equipment finance across the brewing sector.
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  • Equipment finance

  • Keg and cask rentals and sales

  • Ekegs and ecasks

Business Finance

Close Brothers Business Finance is a market leading asset finance provider, working with business finance brokers to provide tailor-made solutions to UK SMEs across a variety of industry sectors.
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  • Hire Purchase

  • Refinance / Capital Release

  • Finance Lease

  • Operating Lease

Commercial Acceptances

Providing fast short term and bridging finance for residential and commercial property acquisitions.
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  • Bridging loans

  • Property Development finance loans

Corporate Asset Solutions (CAS)

CAS provides specialist lending solutions for brokers, vendors and intermediaries, employing an approach that focuses on long-term, agile partnerships. In addition to the below, our in-house expertise covers small-ticket lending, including Hire Purchase and Leasing.
Corporate Asset Solutions
  • Unit Stocking

  • Vendor Finance

  • Block Discounting

  • Joint Venture Programmes

Invoice Finance

Close Brothers Invoice Finance provides innovative, flexible funding solutions, including invoice finance and asset based lending, to SMEs and large businesses across the UK.
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  • Invoice discounting

  • Asset based lending

  • Invoice factoring

Leasing

Close Brothers Leasing provides specialist, structured finance to the UK middle ticket market, across a variety of assets ranging from construction, manufacturing, IT equipment, as well as specialist assets.
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  • Specialist Asset Finance

  • Wholesale Fleet

Novitas Loans

Novitas Loans has ceased lending to new customers.
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  • Novitas Loans has ceased lending to new customers.

Property Finance

Close Brothers provides bespoke finance solutions to experienced Property Developers and Commercial Landlords to assist with the acquisition/refinance and development of residential and commercial buildings throughout England, Scotland and Wales.
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  • Development Finance

  • Bridging Finance

  • Commercial Investment

Vehicle Hire

Close Brothers Vehicle Hire provides flexible, comprehensive vehicle solutions including; vehicle rental, contract hire, finance solutions and fleet management services.
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  • Vehicle hire

  • Fleet management

  • Finance products

  • Support services