DND Finance

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DND Finance is an Anglo-Canadian business providing finance across the business loan, vehicle, equipment finance, and leasing markets. [1] Founded in 2000 by Bill Dost in Canada as D&D Leasing, the business expanded to the United Kingdom in 2009. [2] The business rebranded to DND Finance in 2019 as it expanded its operations beyond leasing. [3] [4] [5]

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In August 2018, the business obtained a £20m wholesale funding facility from Wesleyan Bank to enable lending to British SMEs. [2] [6] [7]

In 2019, DND Finance agreed a multi-year financing agreement with cosmetics platform Aqiok in order to help the firm develop a lending app. [8] [9] In the same year, DND Finance also provided $1 million to Canadian funding solution provider Benjamin Verde, an artist and entertainment funding solutions provider. [1] [10] [11]

In 2022, DND Finance launched the Score Mastercard, which was reported to be the UK's first Shariah-certified credit card. [12] [13] This followed the launch of DND's Secured Charge Card by Visa in 2019. [11] [10] [6]

In 2022, DND Finance Managing Director Bill Dost was appointed to the board of the Finance and Leasing Association of the United Kingdom. [14]

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  2. 1 2 "D&D leasing: A foot on both sides of the pond". October 12, 2018.
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  6. 1 2 "DND Finance, Wesleyan Bank Sign £15MM GBP Asset Finance Facility - News | Equipment Finance Advisor". www.equipmentfa.com.
  7. "Wesleyan Bank supports DND Finance with £15 million asset finance facility". www.assetfinanceinternational.com.
  8. "Beauty boost: Finance lending app for luxury Indie Brands underway". cosmeticsdesign-europe.com. 13 August 2019.
  9. "DND Finance partners with Aqiok Partners as new leasing product for cosmetics industry expands in Europe and North America". www.assetfinanceinternational.com.
  10. 1 2 "DND Finance, Benjamin Verde Announce $1MM Artist Funding Facility - News | Equipment Finance Advisor". www.equipmentfa.com.
  11. 1 2 "DND in $1m artist funding- LeasingWorld - News". www.leasingworld.co.uk.
  12. July 2022, 6th (July 6, 2022). "DND Finance launches UK's first Shariah-certified credit card". FinTech Futures.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  13. "DND Finance unveils Shariah-compliant credit-building product". July 6, 2022.
  14. "FLA welcomes in 2022 with appointment of Simply CEO to board". January 4, 2022.