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This year’s event focused on receivables finance, bringing together leaders from across Europe in London for a day of peer conversation, workshops and live demos. Here are some of the highlights.
The theme of the day was ‘The intelligent receivables finance operation’, with agentic AI at the centre of the conversation.
Agentic AI in receivables finance: where the day began
The day opened with a keynote from Ben Legg, founder of Digital People and former COO of Google Europe. He introduced agents and agentic processing in business, and as our Chief Product Officer, Steve Taplin, put it, “it really set the tone for the day.”
For finance providers, the practical question is how to prepare, and much of the day went on exactly that.
What we explored
Across keynotes, panels, workshops and demo stations, the conversation kept returning to four areas:
- What it takes to prepare for an agentic future, and where people stay in control
- How real-time, connected data helps lenders and their customers
- What must be true, architecturally and organisationally, before agentic receivables operations are viable
- How to improve the lending experience and earn the right to grow
After lunch, attendees split into two workshops: an agentic risk management clinic, and a session on what it would take to fund in five minutes and what stands in the way.
What it means for factoring and receivables finance providers across the UK and EMEA
Steve Taplin’s keynote, “Receivables, reimagined: the agentic operating system”, started with a question about determining the right, valuable problems: which ones in receivables finance are worth handing to AI or an agent to solve. For factoring, invoice discounting and asset-based lending providers across the UK and EMEA, an intelligent operation begins with getting that choice right.
We build software for receivables finance and factoring providers, and what we hear at events like this feeds into our roadmap.
More to come
We’ll share more from the day in the coming weeks. Follow Lendscape on LinkedIn or subscribe to our newsletter to catch it.
