Save the Date: AFC UK Autumn Conference 2025

Celebrating the 20th Asset Finance Connect UK Conference

Mark your calendars for Tuesday 25th November 2025, when the UK Asset Finance Connect Autumn Conference returns to London for its 20th anniversary edition. Taking place just one day before the Chancellor delivers the Autumn Statement, this year’s event offers a timely and essential briefing for leaders across asset, equipment, auto, and receivables finance.

With a packed agenda of insights, debates and practical sessions, the Autumn Conference will explore how technology, public policy, and the economy are reshaping UK finance — and how the industry should respond. You’ll leave with clear actions for 2025–26, new connections, and practical ideas to cut cost-to-serve and grow originations.

The headline theme for 2025 focuses on the Autumn Statement — what to expect and what it means for lenders. A pre-budget outlook will look at likely fiscal measures and their impact on UK lending and investment. A community impact panel will follow, examining the Statement’s implications for asset, equipment, auto, and receivables finance, while a follow-on session will discuss how trade bodies can influence policy, engage regulators and communicate effectively in a social-media-first era.

Regulation will take centre stage as Shoosmiths leads a comprehensive roadmap through the FCA’s redress scheme, covering what we know now, how firms can prepare for go-live in early 2026, and what lies ahead for auto and asset finance beyond redress.

The conference will also address the rapidly evolving landscape of SME lending. Attendees will gain fresh insight into the balance between private and bank credit, the growing role of the British Business Bank, and how challenger and independent lenders can seize opportunities as large banks rethink their appetite. The future of broker-introduced business will also come under the spotlight, exploring how the commission wars may reshape risk, reward, and long-term models of intermediation.

Technology remains a core pillar of the Autumn Conference. Lenders will share real-world case studies on how they are transforming originations, automating processes, and combining digital innovation with human expertise to improve accuracy, speed, and broker engagement.

The much-anticipated AI Dragons’ Den session, sponsored by Lendscape, will return, showcasing ready-to-deploy innovations that deliver measurable cost-to-serve reductions and scalable efficiency gains.

Throughout the day, delegates will hear frank and forward-looking perspectives from across the industry — including the fast-paced Soapbox debate, the AFC Oxford debate on the future of SME lending.

Join more than 450 industry leaders and practitioners at one of London’s premier venues for an energising day of content, connection, and collaboration. With dedicated workshops, roundtables and specialist streams for lenders, brokers, technology experts and emerging professionals, the conference promises to deliver practical, actionable insight for every corner of the sector.

Date: Tuesday 25 November 2025
Location: County Hall etc.venues, Belvedere Rd, London SE1 7PB, UK
Find out more or register now: afcconferenceuk.com/Nov25

Save the date in your diary — and don’t miss this landmark event celebrating the 20th Asset Finance Connect UK Conference, where the industry comes together to shape the future.