Strengthening Your Capital Market Connectivity
SportsFi
isn’t here to replace your lenders. We offer you access to more credit
providers and custom products that fit your capital needs. Your current
relationships remain intact; we enhance the options available to you.
Our
role is to improve the information flow. That’s why every major asset class
uses structured digital systems:
· Aviation relies
on AMOS and AerData for aircraft financing.
· Real estate uses
VDRs, Argus, and automated underwriting.
· Shipping employs
Veson/NAVTOR-style platforms.
· Corporate credit
uses DealCloud, LoanIQ, and integrated data rooms.
Why?
Because lenders lend based on standardised, trusted information, not
relationships.
Sports
are the only global industry that sends multi-million-pound funding requests
via email chains, PDFs, and messy spreadsheets. This leads to high costs, fewer
financial products, and slow underwriting, taking 4 to 12 weeks. Plus, only 2
to 4 lenders usually get involved.
What
SportsFi does is straightforward:
· Provide the verified,
structured, compliant data that lenders need.
· Automate the
credit packs that usually take lenders weeks to assemble.
· Offer access to
sector-specific financial products that meet liquidity needs.
· Help your
existing lenders price tighter and move faster.
· Attract more
lenders who have avoided football due to data risks.
Your
lender relationships stay the same. They work with the same efficiency as other
major industries. When the whole financial system moves to platform-based
underwriting, it’s clear that others must be correct.
Quick-fire answers to
“We
already know lenders directly.”
1. “Keep them. We’re
not replacing them — we’re giving them better data to lend faster and cheaper.”
2. “Lenders price
risk, not relationships. Your costs are higher because the data isn’t
standardised. That changes with SportsFi.”
3. “All major
industries use platforms like this — aviation, shipping, real estate, corporate
credit. Football is the outlier.”
4. "Your
lenders will still compete, but now with clear and verified information. That’s
how costs can drop by 50 to 200 basis points."
5. “This is about
operational discipline and data trust. It doesn’t matter how well you know them
— they still need credit packages.”
6. “Right now,
you’re paying a premium for manual processes. SportsFi removes that structural
penalty.”
7. “Your lenders
actually prefer this — it cuts their underwriting time and costs."
8. “Football has
fewer lenders and higher rates because it sticks to manual processes."