About Us
Nick Blaxhall
Nick’s career in financial services spans twenty plus years, the last eleven years have been spent in the alternative finance space during which time Nick founded Select Invoice Finance in 2016. Prior to that Nick worked for Barclays, working with clients in both the business bank and corporate markets, Nick has extensive experience of the challenges, trials and tribulations of owner managed businesses, particularly when sourcing finance.
Nick made the decision to leave the bank in early 2011, sighting the Alternative Finance Space as being an exciting and innovative market in which to hone his skills. Being one of the earlier entrants, he witnessed first hand the UK market’s rapid growth in this sector, more than doubling in size year by year as clients sought more prompt, flexible, can-do and less bureaucratic ways to raise finance.
Nick is passionate about building long lasting relationships with our clients and introducer network, actively involving himself in delivering the Select message to the intermediary market and strives to ensure that the company is run to the founding principles of Partnerships, Responsiveness, Transparency and Trust.
When not at work, Nick likes to keep active: all sports, live music, travel, cookery and he enjoys spending time with his family.
How we can help…
- Facilities from £25,000 to £250,000
- Dedicated account manager
- Quick and simple account opening process
- Funds in your account immediately
- Use the facility only when you need
- Draw up to 80% of the invoice value
- Only pay for the funds you are using
- No set-up costs or arrangement fees
- No early repayment penalties
- No termination fees
- Same-day payments at no additional cost
James King
James has worked in financial services for over 25 years – for a large part in Investment Banking and latterly in the Alternative Finance sector, where he enjoys the much more innovative and dynamic approach to business. This means being open-minded and willing to find ways to support the growing number of small and medium sized businesses, which form the backbone of the UK economy.
As a business owner himself, James, like Nick, fully appreciates the challenges which entrepreneurs frequently face and this sentiment is reflected in the way Select’s service has been designed. Amongst all of the recent financial innovation however, their friendly, can-do and transparent offering still remains unique.
Having played many sports over the years, when James isn’t working he enjoys coaching his children and supporting them in their various sporting and extracurricular activities.
Feedback from our clients…
“Having previously utilised traditional bank funding through overdrafts and (Enterprise Finance Guarantee) loans, the business got to a position of growth where the banks were unable / unwilling to continue to assist.
Having explored the Invoice Finance / Discount market, we were introduced to Nick Blaxhall from Select who began the process of providing a proposal for us.
Throughout the process, Nick and his team were approachable, flexible and informative, always on hand to answer queries or adjust the proposal in line with our requirements.
We decided that the flexible yet professional approach from SIF suited the needs of Focus Logistics perfectly and so decided to embark on a partnership with them in March 2017.
During the following 9 months by utilising the facility from SIF, Focus were able to grow sales by 83%, the service that they provided was excellent and we would recommend using them to anyone who needs a quick and flexible access to working capital in order to grow a business.
Well done and thank you to Nick, James and the team!”
“I strongly recommend Select Invoice Finance for any business looking for a high level of service from an invoice finance lender. From the first moment, Nick and James were efficient, straightforward and flexible. They took time to understand our business, and I felt at every stage that I was dealing with a human team providing a high level of service to us, which is in contrast to so many lenders who seem to think it’s the other way round.
When one customer faced some difficulties they investigated the situation and were able to react in a constructive and helpful way that always supported our business. They communicated well, made quick decisions and helped us through and out the other side of a short term situation in a helpful way.”
Our responsive and supportive approach enables us to support you and help your business reach its full potential. Get in touch with our team today to experience it for yourself!