Time Finance plc (LSE: TIME) is a United Kingdom-based independent specialist finance provider offering a multi-product range of funding solutions to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). The company provides asset finance for equipment investment and refinancing including hire purchase, lease purchase, and finance leases for sectors such as construction, manufacturing, engineering, agriculture, transportation, and hospitality; invoice finance and confidential invoice discounting to release cash from unpaid invoices; vehicle finance for commercial vehicles; secured and unsecured business loans; asset-based lending (ABL) encompassing plant, machinery, stock, and property; and multi-product facilities combining these offerings. Incorporated on 14 June 2006 and headquartered at St James House, The Square, Lower Bristol Road, Bath, BA2 3BH, England, Time Finance operates primarily in the United Kingdom through direct channels and finance brokers, with offices in Warrington, Manchester, and Reading.
The company pursues growth through its own-book lending strategy, achieving a record lending portfolio of £230m as of 31 October 2025, up 6% from May 2025 and 12% year-on-year, with invoice finance exceeding £75m and hard asset finance over £123m. Recent developments include renewing and expanding its back-to-back invoice finance facility with NatWest to £65m; increasing British Business Bank ENABLE funding to £29.4m; launching a virtual asset inspection platform with verifi; raising invoice finance and ABL facility limits to £5m; opening a new Reading office; introducing ABL solutions; and appointing key personnel such as Bethan Holliday as Head of Operations in Asset Finance and multiple business development managers to expand regional presence.