For asset-based lenders & invoice finance providers

The evidence behind every funding decision.

ABL Intel reads the filings, the accounts and the ledger itself — then shows you the working. Forensic review, borrower intelligence and debtor-book screening in one platform, built for the way secured lending is actually underwritten.

Every filingCompanies House, Gazette, Insolvency Service
Every lineDebtor books screened name by name
Every claimCited to its source, or it doesn't ship
The problem

Secured lending is underwritten on the collateral. Most credit tools only look at the company.

A generic credit report tells you a rating and a limit. It won't tell you whether the debtor book is real, whether the ledger reconciles, or who the directors have traded with before.

I.

The book is the security

An invoice finance facility lives or dies on the quality of the receivables — concentration, credit notes, contra accounts, related-party debtors. That analysis has to happen line by line, not at company level.

II.

Accounts are stale by the time you read them

Filed accounts are routinely more than a year old at the point of decision. Underwriting on them alone means underwriting on history — the ledger and the bank account are where the current picture lives.

III.

A score without evidence isn't a decision

A number you can't interrogate can't be defended to a credit committee, an auditor or a regulator. Every conclusion needs the filing, the note or the ledger line that produced it.

Who it's for

One platform, two jobs to do

The same underlying intelligence serves the risk function and the front end — read differently, at different moments in the deal.

Risk & Credit

Defensible decisions

"Show me the evidence, not the score."
  • Forensic ledger review — reconciliation, cross-period and cross-platform checks that surface what a summary aged-debtor report hides.
  • Six-dimension risk assessment — financial, payment, director, structural, adverse and sector, each traceable to its inputs.
  • Adverse and sanctions screening — sanctions, PEP, insolvency, disqualification and judgment checks across the borrower and its debtor book.
  • Portfolio-wide view — concentration and director-network exposure across the whole book, not one deal at a time.
  • An audit trail by default — every finding carries the source, the quote and the filing date behind it.
Commercial & Origination

Faster, better-qualified yeses

"Tell me early whether this is a deal."
  • Qualify before the survey — a full borrower picture from public sources before anyone gets in a car.
  • Fewer surprises at credit — the issues that kill deals at committee are visible at first enquiry instead.
  • Client-ready output — reports written to be shared with the introducer and the prospect, not just filed internally.
  • Monitoring after drawdown — filings, notices and adverse events tracked on the live book so renewals aren't a cold start.
  • White-label ready — the platform can carry your own brand for client-facing material.
The platform

The product suite

Seven capabilities, one evidence layer. We label what is available today and what is in build — so you know exactly what you'd be buying.

Available in production today | In build committed roadmap, not yet released

Forensic ledger review

Available

A structured audit of the sales and purchase ledgers behind a facility. We reconcile the detail to the control accounts and to the accounts as filed, then flag what doesn't tie.

  • Ledger-to-control-account reconciliation
  • Cross-period and cross-source variance testing
  • Duplicate and persistent-balance detection
  • Sister-entity and related-party debtor identification
  • Outlier and concentration analysis

Company & director intelligence

Available

A full borrower report built from primary registers — filing history, accounts, charges, officers, PSCs and adverse events — with a transparent six-dimension risk assessment on top.

  • Forensic reading of the accounts notes
  • Director history, networks and appointment lineage
  • Charges, PSC structure and group mapping
  • Sector probability-of-default context
  • Every finding carries its source and quote

Debtor-book screening

Available

Upload a sales ledger and we resolve every debtor to a real registered entity, then screen each one — so concentration, adverse events and collusion risk are assessed on the actual book.

  • Name-by-name entity resolution to Companies House
  • Sanctions, PEP, insolvency and disqualification checks
  • Insolvency-notice and judgment checks on every debtor
  • Common-director / collusion detection across the book
  • Rated output per debtor with the evidence attached

Accounting data extraction

Available

Structured extraction from the records a borrower actually hands over — ledger exports, aged reports, management accounts and bank statements — normalised into one comparable dataset.

  • Xero, Sage and SAP ledger exports
  • Aged debtor and aged creditor reports
  • PDF and spreadsheet ledgers, plus bank statements
  • VAT and P&L detail extraction
  • Normalised so periods and platforms compare like for like
Direct read-only API connections to Xero, QuickBooks and Sage — removing the manual export step — are in build.

Open banking reconciliation

In build

With the borrower's consent, read-only access to the business bank account so ledger and cash can be reconciled against each other — turning a point-in-time review into continuous assurance.

  • Cash receipts matched against the sales ledger
  • Collection performance measured, not asserted
  • Payment behaviour visible between reviews
  • Business accounts only — no personal accounts
Delivered through an FCA-authorised open banking provider. Account information only — read-only access, with no ability to initiate payments. Not yet available.

Portfolio monitoring

Available

Once a facility is live, the book is watched. New filings, insolvency notices, director changes and adverse events are picked up against every company you're exposed to.

  • Daily monitoring of primary registers
  • Watchlist digests to the risk team
  • Concentration and network exposure across the book
  • Renewal-ready position rather than a cold re-underwrite

Credit-insurance cover compliance

In build

Where a borrower holds trade credit insurance, the screened ledger is mapped against the limits the insurer has actually granted and the policy's own terms — so you can see how much of the funded book is insured today, not just that a policy exists.

  • Insured and uninsured balance, debtor by debtor
  • Overtrading above insurer-approved limits
  • Unmatched debtors trading over the discretionary limit
  • Temporary and pending limits, with the dates they fall away
  • Overdue-account notification deadlines under the policy
Delivered with an FCA-authorised trade credit insurance broker, who gives any advice on the cover itself under its own permissions. ABL Intel presents the analysis only: we do not advise on, arrange or administer insurance, and we issue no credit limits. How it will work →
How it works

From enquiry to evidenced position

The same four steps whether it's a new enquiry, a pre-drawdown review or an annual renewal. See how our reports work in full →

Name the company

Start from a company number or name. The public picture — filings, accounts, officers, charges, adverse events — assembles without anyone chasing the borrower for paperwork.

Bring in the records

Ledger exports, aged reports, management accounts and bank statements are uploaded and extracted into one normalised dataset ready for testing.

Test and screen

Reconciliation and variance checks run against the ledger; every debtor is resolved and screened; the borrower is scored across six dimensions.

Decide, then monitor

You get a report you can take to committee — each finding traceable to its source — and the company stays under monitoring for as long as you're exposed.

Evidence, not assertion

Every finding shows its working

We built the platform on one rule: nothing is stated that can't be traced to a named source. Click any risk, strength or watchpoint and the underlying evidence opens beneath it.

How a finding appears
"The financial statements have been prepared on a going concern basis, which assumes the continued support of the company's principal lender."
Source: Notes to the financial statements  ·  Filed: annual accounts  ·  Linked: original filing

Illustrative example of the evidence drawer. The quote, the source label and the filing reference travel with every finding into the report and the PDF — so a credit paper can be checked back to the register it came from.

SourceWhat it provides
Companies HouseRegistrations, filing history, accounts, officers and persons with significant control
The GazetteOfficial insolvency and regulatory notices
The Insolvency ServiceInsolvency events and director disqualifications
HM Land RegistryProperty ownership and registered charges
OFSI / HM TreasurySanctions screening, with international lists
PEP dataPolitically-exposed-person screening
Court & judgment dataCounty Court Judgments and other judgments
Payment-practices reportingPayment-behaviour information
Regulator registersSector authorisations and enforcement
Client-supplied recordsLedgers, accounts and statements provided for a review

Primary and official public sources wherever possible, supplemented by licensed data. We do not collect consumer credit-file data.

UK-built, UK-hosted

The platform and its data are hosted in the United Kingdom. Access is role-scoped and default-deny, and client data is segregated by tenant.

Registered with the ICO

ABL Risk Intelligence Limited, registration ZC223245. Our privacy, transparency and retention policies are published in full.

No credit ratings issued

We provide analysis and evidence. We do not issue credit ratings or credit limits, and we are not a credit reference agency.

Your data stays yours

Records uploaded for a review are used for that engagement. Cross-client information is never surfaced in another client's output.

Next step

See it against a company you already know

The fastest way to judge the platform is to point it at a borrower whose file you've read — then check what it found against what you know.

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