Paul Bartley

Paul leads our specialist business finance division and is responsible for building the bank’s proposition across traditional broker asset finance, wholesale finance, structured asset finance and specialist car finance. Paul has a long and distinguished track record in commercial banking, most notably as a founder director and shareholder of Close Leasing between 2007 and 2017. More recently Paul founded and built an innovative and disruptive digital platform in the retail car sales and finance market, FairSquare.com.