Case Study: Loans2Go achieves faster, compliant SQL performance with Node4 Ltd

Node4 Helped Loans2Go With a Modernised IT Infrastructure and Database to Help Its Move to a Fully Operational Online Lender, in Support of GDPR Regulations

Loans2Go, a UK financial services lender with 100+ employees, had grown from a high-street business into a fully online operation and needed to modernise its IT and database infrastructure. As GDPR requirements changed, the company also needed to move DBA support from the US to the UK, while improving the performance of its Microsoft SQL environment to keep up with around 40,000 daily applications. Node4 Ltd provided the managed database expertise and support model Loans2Go was looking for.

Node4 Ltd implemented full monitoring and 24x7 proactive management of Loans2Go’s critical Microsoft SQL environments, alongside infrastructure review, testing, optimisation, and migration support. Node4 identified bottlenecks, recommended query rewrites and indexing changes, and even caught a serious issue with new hardware before migration, helping Loans2Go avoid costly failure. As a result, response times improved dramatically from 10–40 seconds to under 5 seconds, supporting faster auction-panel decisions, uninterrupted service, and safer, GDPR-compliant operations in the UK.

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James Godbold

Chief Information Officer