August 28, 2024
Sezzle Teams With Liberis on Small Business Funding Program
Buy now, pay later (BNPL) firm Sezzle and embedded finance platform Liberis teamed to help American small businesses get funded. The partnership is centered around Sezzle Capital, designed to help...
August 26, 2024
CFPB’s Small Business Lending Data Collection Rule Leaps Legal Hurdle
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) rule requiring lenders to gather demographic information about small business borrowers has leapt another legal hurdle. A federal judge rejected a banking industry-backed challenge that...
August 26, 2024
Can Stablecoins Spark Crypto Adoption Across Retail and B2B Markets?
The cryptocurrency sector has long been in search of gateway use cases to accelerate adoption. News broke Friday (Aug. 23) that Wyoming is reportedly developing its own U.S. dollar-backed stablecoin...
August 22, 2024
US Bank Purchases Healthcare Payments Firm Salucro
U.S. Bank has acquired healthcare financial technology firm Salucro Healthcare Solutions. The 20-year-old Arizona company, which focuses on patient payments and billing, had been a partner of Elavon, U.S. Bank’s...
August 21, 2024
US Bank Forms Credit Card Partnership With Edward Jones
U.S. Bank expanded its partnership with broker-dealer and financial advisor Edward Jones. The collaboration will allow the firm’s advisors to offer clients deposit and credit card products from the bank...
August 20, 2024
Shadow Banking’s Surge Leads to ‘Know Your Business’ Priority
There used to be an old radio show that asked about the evil that lurked in peoples’ hearts. “The Shadow knows,” intoned the narrator. We’ll bend that verbiage a bit...
August 20, 2024
AI Startup Anthropic Faces Copyright Infringement Lawsuit From 3 Authors
Artificial intelligence (AI) startup Anthropic is reportedly the target of a copyright infringement lawsuit filed Tuesday (Aug. 20) in California. Three authors allege in the lawsuit that the company built...
August 15, 2024
White House Working Capital Program Targets Small Business Stability Through...
Access to working capital is critical for the survival and growth of small businesses. And with the news from the National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB) Small Business Optimism Index released Tuesday...
August 14, 2024
This Week in Web3: Blockchain Looks to Create, Not Just...
Blockchain, at this point a significant industry, perpetually appears to be on the verge of mainstream acceptance. Its promise of delivering benefits such as easier access to financial products and...