Orchard Funding Group PLC Trading Update

RNS Number : 0657F

Orchard Funding Group PLC

01 March 2024

 

1^st March 2024

 

Orchard Funding Group PLC

 

Trading Update

 

Orchard Funding Group PLC ("Orchard", the "Group" or "Company"), the finance group which specialises in insurance premium finance and the professions funding market, provides notification that it has suffered an instance of fraud, arising from dealings with a fraudulent introducer and fraudulent credit agreements funded by the Company as a result.

The Board has made a provision of approximately £500k in respect of these fraudulent credit agreements (the "Provision"), which will have a knock-on impact on the Group's year-end financials. The Provision represents the Group's total exposure to these fraudulent credit agreements, and there are no other agreements in place involving the Group which have been introduced via this introducer

 

The Board is conducting a thorough review of its wider lending book and introducer network to satisfy itself that no fraud risk exists elsewhere in its current loan book, alongside a review of its systems and controls and to ensure that the risk that the Company suffers a similar fraud in the future is minimised.

 

 

For further information, please contact:

 

Orchard Funding Group PLC                                                   [phone]

 

Ravi Takhar, Chief Executive Officer

 

Liberum (Nomad and Broker)                                                   [phone]

 

Lauren Kettle

 

For Investor Relations please go to: www.orchardfundinggroupplc.com 

 

The information contained within this announcement is deemed by the Company to constitute inside information as stipulated under the Market Abuse Regulation (EU) No. 596/2014 as amended by The Market Abuse (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019. Upon the publication of this announcement via the Regulatory Information Service, this inside information is now considered to be in the public domain.

 

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