Swiftfund
Cheshire-based MCA specialist, the trading name of Bizlend Limited. Requires £20k monthly card-machine turnover. Strong Trustpilot footprint for category, with funds typically released inside 48 hours.
Quick routing verdict
- Product: Merchant cash advance.
- Ticket band: £10k to £500k.
- Decision time: Same day to 48 hours.
- Pricing: Factor rate, quoted at offer.
- Soft search at quote stage: no credit-file footprint.
At a glance
- Legal entity
- Bizlend Limited
- Companies House
- 11608105
- Founded
- 2018
- Product
- Merchant cash advance
- Ticket range
- £10k to £500k
- Decision time
- Same day to 48 hours
- Ltd-only
- Lender accepts other structures, FundBiz routing is Ltd-only
- Last reviewed
- 2026-05-08
Why we route here
- Direct MCA underwriter, no broker layer.
- Funds typically inside 24 to 48 hours.
- Repayments scale with daily card sales.
- Accepts borrowers with light credit history.
When we route elsewhere
- Factor-rate quoting hides effective APR.
- Card-machine flow required; poor fit for B2B service businesses.
- Ticket floor of £10k.
- Trading name and underwriter name differ; expect paperwork in Bizlend Limited.
Best fit applicants
- Hospitality, retail, salons
- Businesses with £20k+ monthly card flow
- Borrowers needing 24-hour funding
Where Swiftfund is the wrong fit
- B2B service businesses
- Sub-£20k monthly turnover
- Long-term project finance
If declined by Swiftfund
If your application to Swiftfund is declined, the FundBiz post-decline matcher routes by decline reason. Common alternatives in our panel are listed in the "When we route elsewhere" section above. See also our Swiftfund decline runbook for sector-specific routing detail.
Other panel lenders
- 365 Business Finance, Merchant cash advance
- Aldermore, Asset finance, invoice finance, commercial mortgages
- Allica Bank, SME term loan + commercial mortgage
- Bizcap, Specialist post-decline / fast cash
How we rate Swiftfund
This review is FundBiz's own editorial assessment, scored against a published framework. See our methodology for how we rate each lender.
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Open matcher →Last reviewed: 2026-05-08. By Oliver Mackman.