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B2B PaymentsB2B eCommerce Tips The VC Scales
More than $874 million in fresh funding landed at B2B startups this week across a range of market segments and geographies. An...
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SMBsWhy Better Data Is The First Step In Curing The ‘Startup Slump’
When the economy crashed in 2008, and fully bottomed out in June 2009 credit across the board froze. Consumer, enterprise and SMB...
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BankingIndia’s Shadow Banks See Foreign Loans Tumble
India’s shadow banks are struggling as defaults in the country’s credit market have risen. These lenders have signed $1.5 billion of foreign-currency...
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InternationalChina Bank Loans Decline In July Amid Trade Tensions
Decreasing demands for loans has caused a July lending slowdown for Chinese financial institutions, The Wall Street Journal reported on Monday (Aug....
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LoansChase Terminates OnDeck SMB Loan Collaboration
Following its disclosure that JPMorgan Chase would no longer originate new small business loans through OnDeck’s platform hosting Chase Business Quick Capital,...
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LoansCA Proposes Lending Regs To Protect SMB Borrowers
Proposed regulations would give small businesses in California the nation’s most extensive set of truth-in-lending protections for small business borrowers. The new...
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B2B PaymentsU.S. Farming Has A Banking Problem
The latest jobs figures propel the lengthy period of corporate optimism in the U.S. today, with hiring stronger than expected in June....
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RegulationFSB Says Higher Bank Capital Requirements Will Remain
Europe’s Financial Stability Board (FSB) said on Friday (June 7) that higher bank capital requirements, which were put on the books during...
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B2B PaymentsSMB Payments, Lending Startup KiWi Grabs Funding
Investors have backed Switzerland-based FinTech startup KiWi to help the firm expand its small business payments and lending operations in Mexico, reports...
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B2B PaymentsReliant Funding Launches SBA Loan Service Amid Government Shutdown
Small business finance company Reliant Funding is launching a new program that can link borrowers to faster, short-term capital while they wait...
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RegulationSmall Biz Complaints Get UK Bank Support
Financial Times reports that a number of banks in the U.K. have agreed to give smaller firms more power when it comes...
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NewsFive At Five: Do Banks Really Appreciate SMBs?
Welcome to Five at Five, your daily look at the payments and commerce news of the day. Today’s coverage includes new data...
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BankingBanks’ Low Interest Rates Costing Them Deposits
The country’s four largest banks reported a combined 5 percent drop in U.S. deposits that earned no interest in the third quarter,...
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B2B PaymentsRBS Chief: Lack Of Regulation Allowed Bank’s SMB Mistreatment
The Royal Bank of Scotland‘s (RBS’) chief executive is calling on U.K. regulators to introduce stricter small business (SMB) lending regulations, claiming...
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SMBsAustralia Unlikely To Expand Borrower Protections To SMBs
Business lending in Australia probably won’t face tougher loan regulation when it comes to small business loans. “The evidence and submissions provided...
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B2B PaymentsUS Bank Designs Online SMB Lending Platform
U.S. Bank has debuted its online lending portal for small business borrowers, the financial institution announced on Tuesday (Sept. 25). Following in...
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LoansStripe Mulls Cash Advance Service For SMBs
Stripe, the digital payments startup, is reportedly testing a new cash advance service for its business customers. According to reports, the new...
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B2B PaymentsUK Bank Referral Scheme Yields $20M For SMBs
Since the U.K. implemented its bank referral scheme, aimed at linking small businesses to alternative finance when they’re rejected for a bank...
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B2B PaymentsSBA Enhances CalPrivate Bank’s Small Business Lending
Private Bancorp of America has announced that its subsidiary CalPrivate Bank now has two separate Small Business Lending channels so that it...
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B2B PaymentsFed Finds Biz Lending Swell Continues, But There’s A Downside
Traditional institutions are picking up steam in their efforts to collaborate with alternative financiers and FinTech firms, largely viewed as a way...
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RegulationBipartisan Policy Center Report Urges Small Business Financial Reforms
A new report by the Bipartisan Policy Center recommended several reforms that would help the U.S. financial system improve the ability of...
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B2B PaymentsCalifornia Closes In On Extending Borrower Protections To SMBs
California lawmakers are considering legislation that would extend disclosure requirements currently required by consumer lenders to lenders of small business loan products,...
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B2B PaymentsSantander Adopts nCino Platform For Faster SMB Lending
Santander Bank is adopting nCino technology to accelerate its business lending operations, the FI announced on Wednesday (July 18). Santander’s business banking...
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B2B PaymentsAmazon Reveals Interest In Bringing SMB Lending To China
As Amazon presses further into China to compete with rivals like Alibaba, a job posting on the Amazon website may have just...
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B2B PaymentsCredit Union SMB Loan Approvals Hit Record Lows
The latest data from the monthly Biz2Credit Small Business Lending Index suggests a slump in small business lending among U.S. credit unions....
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Bill To Increase SBA SMB Lending Authority Passes In Senate
The U.S. Senate has unanimously passed a bipartisan bill that will increase the Small Business Administration’s authority over the Small Business 7(a)...
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Bank RegulationBanks Stepping Up Loans To Corporate Customers Worries Regulators
Banks, faced with low business growth and fierce competition in the industry, are offering business loans with sweeter terms, which is worrying...
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B2B PaymentsHow Banks Can Turn SMB Loan Rejections Into Opportunities
Disruptions to the small business banking and lending landscape over the last decade have completely overhauled entrepreneurs’ relationships with FIs. Today, small...
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B2B PaymentsCorporate FinServ Shows Muted Performance In Latest Earnings
A look at some of the latest earnings data from B2B financial services firms doesn’t just provide a glimpse into the health...
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LoansCorporate America Picks Up Pace On Lending
U.S. banks are seeing a surge in the number of loans being taken out by corporate America, with new data showing the...
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B2B PaymentsFunding Circle Chooses Bank Partners For Record-Setting Float
Funding Circle has reportedly chosen the banks to help it go public, according to Bloomberg reports from Sunday (March 11). An unnamed...
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SMBsWhy SMB Lenders Need Straight Through Data
Securing bank financing for a small business (SMB) is neither fast nor easy, but the people running those SMBs need it to...
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LoansBusiness Lending Standards Loosen In Q4 2017
The Federal Reserve revealed in its quarterly survey on Monday (Feb. 5) that loan officers in banks around the U.S. eased lending...
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B2B PaymentsEconomy Boosts SMB Borrowing Activity
New data from small business credit analysis firm PayNet finds the small and medium-sized business (SMB) lending landscape expanded significantly toward the...
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B2B PaymentsAustralian Finance Group Teases SMB Loan Platform
As Australian regulators continue to press the nation’s largest banks for fairer small business lending practices, a new small- to medium-sized businesses...
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B2B PaymentsEU Investment Fund Continues Withdrawal From UK SMB Funding
Non-financial business lending in the U.K. has dipped significantly, according to new data outlined by Business Matters, with European funds also pulling back...
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B2B PaymentsCiti Sets Corporate Banking Eyes On APAC
Citi is expanding its corporate banking presence across the Asia-Pacific region, as concerns mount over the U.S.’s retraction from global trade. Reports...
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InternationalSoutheast Asia FinTech Startup Nabs $7.5 Million
The Singapore startup Funding Societies raised $7.5 million in Series A financing, TechCrunch reported on Monday (Aug 8). The round was led...
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TransUnion Speeds P2P Lending Decisions
India-based peer-to-peer lending marketplace platform Faircent announced a data and solutions initiatives-based partnership with global credit and information management solutions provider TransUnion.
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Credit Unions Try To Lure Business Borrowers
Businesses may soon be enticed to turn to a credit union the next time they are in need of working capital. According...
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The Crossroads Of US Commercial Lending
Financial analysts constantly keep tabs on the state of business lending in the U.S. But when the Federal Reserve announced last week...
