Marshmallow offers motor finance for migrants
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This move turns Marshmallow from a single product insurer into a distribution layer for a much bigger share of the car buying journey. Insurance already sits close to the moment a migrant needs a vehicle. By adding motor finance through Evolution Funding, Marshmallow can reach customers when they are choosing a car at the dealership, use its thin file risk models to approve borrowers traditional lenders may miss, and earn more from the same customer without building a dealer network from scratch.
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Evolution gives Marshmallow immediate access to dealer distribution. Evolution says it is the UK’s largest used auto finance platform, works with 4,000 plus dealers, finances 87,000 plus vehicles a year, and routes applications across a lender panel of 30 plus providers. That means Marshmallow plugs into existing showroom workflows instead of recruiting dealers one by one.
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The product logic is concrete. A migrant often needs finance to buy a car, and the lender wants the car insured because it is the collateral. Internal data shows fewer than 1 in 10 New to the UK Marshmallow customers used secured car finance for their last vehicle, so the gap is not awareness, it is access at the point of sale.
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This follows the same playbook Marshmallow used in insurance. It built underwriting around foreign driving history, identity documents, and other thin file signals for more than 1 million insured drivers. Extending those data advantages into lending lets Marshmallow compete less like a narrow insurtech and more like a migrant focused financial services company, alongside players like Monzo and Revolut.
The next step is a broader newcomer wallet. Motor finance places Marshmallow earlier in the vehicle purchase funnel, home insurance and lending widen the product set, and European expansion gives it more migrant cohorts to underwrite. If execution holds, the company compounds by reusing one customer graph across insurance, credit, and dealer embedded distribution.