Aro Finance Limited

Event season is in full swing! Yesterday, our CEO, Emma Steeley, took to the stage at Open Banking Expo to discuss the evolving intersection of embedded finance and open banking, and how we can start making the technology work for a stronger financial system. The panel tackled key questions around how market-driven innovation in embedded finance can work hand-in-hand with the regulatory frameworks shaping open banking. #OBExpo #EmbeddedFinance #OpenBanking

We have a new and exciting vacancy available for an experienced and motivated CRM Specialist to join our highly skilled Growth team. As a CRM Specialist, you will create first-class customer experiences that engage, drive revenue and build brand loyalty. The successful candidate will be someone who can enrich our customer and partner journeys to maximise engagement and customer lifetime value, and uphold our brand values to deliver our vision of having customers who love us, engage with us and, most importantly, stay with us. This role is a fantastic opportunity for a motivated individual who thrives in a fast-paced environment and has a passion for working with Aro customers as well as partner brands such as Argos, Asda, Very and Equifax. If you have a strong understanding of email marketing principles, triggered campaigns, email testing and optimising performance, we would love to hear from you.

We are hugely proud of our CEO, Emma Steeley, following her highly popular session at Women in Credit 2024 earlier this week. It was fantastic to see so many industry leaders listening in and hearing about how she’s driven our business through its successful transformation over the last couple of years. And not just that, she only went and won the Innovator – non creditor and Business Leader of the Year – non creditor categories at the Women in Credit Awards in the evening! 🥂 As you’ll see, the team had a great night celebrating! Credit Strategy #WiCConference #Transformation #FinancialInclusion #TeamSpirit 

Yesterday our CEO Emma Steeley hosted the latest of Aro’s Lender Forums, bringing together our wonderful unsecured lender partners to discuss the current industry, its challenges, and its opportunities.   We were especially pleased to have guest appearances from Nicola Matthias who asked us to rethink how we define ‘vulnerability’ in borrowers, as well as a presentation from our friends over at GBG Plc to explain more about how we’re working together to deliver our new offering, Aro Precision.   Special thanks to Chris Broomfield too for holding down the fort and talking all things growth.    So pleased to continue to get our amazing partners together for open and honest conversations that can really move the industry forward. Thanks all for joining us! Laura Barrowcliff Harry Blackburn Andrew Fisher

We have a new and exciting vacancy available for an experienced and motivated Customer Solutions Manager to join our highly skilled team. As a Customer Solutions Manager, you will be responsible for leading and managing our Customer Solutions Centre in South Manchester. The successful candidate will be responsible for driving performance, ensuring regulatory compliance, and delivering excellent customer outcomes. This role requires strong leadership, strategic thinking, and operational management experience within the financial services industry, preferably in unsecured loans. This role is a fantastic opportunity for a motivated individual who thrives in a fast-paced environment and has a passion for driving operational excellence in customer outcomes. If you have a strong background in contact centre management within the unsecured loans industry and are ready to lead a successful team, we would love to hear from you.

We're thrilled to today announce the launch of Aro Precision, a cutting-edge solution designed to empower lenders with advanced fraud prevention and affordability checks. With 23 million underserved adults in the UK facing increasing affordability challenges, the data-driven insights we provide will help lenders to give credit to the people who really need it. Excitingly, today also marks the beginning of our partnership with GBG Plc, who are helping us to offer enhanced onboarding intelligence, a Trust Score system, and optimised affordability assessments—ensuring faster and safer lending processes. Aro Precision will redefine how lenders navigate financial inclusion and customer onboarding, get in touch if you’d like to hear more! https://lnkd.in/ec4uAHmc Emma Steeley Andrew Fisher Nick Allen Laura Barrowcliff

We’re so excited to share that four incredible women working behind the scenes at Aro have been shortlisted in five different categories at next month’s Women in Credit Awards 2024! 🙌 Emma Steeley – Business Leader and Innovator of the Year Bernadette Ward – Team Player of the Year Leonie Mallabone – Team Leader of the Year Diane Peart – Woman of the Year We are beyond proud to see our team’s exceptional leadership, teamwork, and dedication being recognised by the industry. We can’t wait to celebrate next month.🥂 Keeping our fingers crossed for the win! Credit Strategy #WomenInCredit #Innovation #Aro #Leadership #BreakingBoundaries

“Digital lending platforms have a dual responsibility: fostering innovation and accessibility in the market while ensuring any new products maintain the rigorous creditworthiness checks used by their traditional counterparts.” Our CEO, Emma Steeley, shared her insights with The Fintech Times on the transformative potential of digital lending platforms, highlighting how advanced tech like open banking and machine learning can streamline the cumbersome mortgage process. Read her full thoughts here: https://bit.ly/4cQiStJ #PropertyFinance #DigitalLending #FinancialInclusion

This month the BBC’s Kevin Peachey reported on the highest level of product choice since 2012 when it comes to savings accounts. In fact, there are 2,014 saving deals available for UK savers. As many shop around for the best deal amid a cost-of-living crisis, it’s clear this money-savvy generation needs to make every pound count. In light of this, we’re proud to be a part of the #FintechPledge, reinforcing our dedication to fostering innovation, transparency, and collaboration in the financial technology sector. Together, we can empower more people to make informed financial decisions, increase the choice of financial solutions that suit individual consumer needs, and enable positive financial actions to improve the lives of consumers. https://bbc.in/4bOasT6

Fantastic news coming out of our secured loans business this morning! So pleased to see our capabilities continuing to help our partners unlock financial health 👏