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5.1KB2B PaymentsAlternative Finance No Longer SMBs’ Last Resort
Alternative finance (AltFin) has had a rocky lifespan, with controversies over high interest rates, contract agreements and the overall viability of the...
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2.8KB2B PaymentsIndia Eyes SMBs In Pursuit Of $5T Economy
A government working group in India has said a $5 trillion economy could be a reality for the country by 2025, with...
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5.6KConsumer FinanceFiserv On Solving Cash Flow’s Crunch Digitally
Cash flow can make or break daily life for consumers or businesses. Not enough in your account? Plan on asking your landlord...
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2.7KB2B PaymentsIndia Conglomerates Testing Crypto For B2B Payments
Top corporates and banks in India are reportedly testing out the use of cryptocurrency to pay vendors and move money between subsidiaries,...
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3.2KB2B PaymentsTreasurers Understand — But Aren’t Living Up To — Rising CFO Expectations
Treasurers and chief financial officers may both have their sights set on corporate coffers, but their roles are not one and the...
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3.3KB2B PaymentsNational Funding Explores AltFin’s Uncertain Growth Trajectory
The alternative finance boom post-2008 financial crisis undoubtedly provided more options for small business (SMB) borrowers, but that doesn’t mean the industry...
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4.0KB2B PaymentsAltFin’s Inconsistent Path To SMB Adoption
What does small business (SMB) lending look like? It depends on many factors, including one’s location. For example, alternative finance in the...
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4.3KB2B PaymentsStripe Finds C-Suite Anxieties Over Developer Talent
Business owners are frustrated with the processes through which they seek financing, a Federal Reserve survey has found. When it comes to...
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3.5KAlternative FinancesKabbage CEO: SMB Working Capital Needs Don’t Fit ‘Bankers’ Hours’
Bankers’ hours — that eight-hour block of time between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. — are a bit of an anachronism in 2018, Kabbage...
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2.7KSizzle/FizzleWorking Capital Sizzles, Wells Fargo Fizzles And MoviePass Faces An Uncertain Future
It’s never a good sign when the headlines begin widely speculating about a firm’s impending demise. That’s currently the media narrative for...
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3.5KCross Border CommerceBlueVine Teams With Veem For Cross-Border Payments
BlueVine, the provider of working capital to small business (SMB) owners, announced news on Thursday (March 8) that it has inked a...
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3.5KB2B PaymentsIndifi Targets B2B Payments Lag With New Financing Tool For Startups
India-based alternative lender Indifi Technologies is targeting B2B startups with its latest financing service. According to news from Business Standard on Tuesday (Dec....
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2.7KB2B PaymentsUK’s BBB Ramps Up Asset-Based SMB Financing In Brexit Prep
The British Business Bank (BBB) has announced a $40 million commitment to provide U.K. small- and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) working capital loans...
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3.4KToday In DataToday In Data: SMBs’ Capital Management, Cash Still Powerful And B2B Apps For Professionals
When it comes to payment methods and moving money between parties, knowing how to handle transfers in the most efficient way possible...
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7.2KB2B PaymentsQuick.me: The Fundamentals Of Ethical SMB Lending
While some of the entrepreneurs we talk to at PYMNTS seem to have been almost born to solve the problem they founded a...
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6.8KB2B PaymentsMarketInvoice Brings Invoice Financing To More Smaller Sized Businesses
MarketInvoice, the invoice financing company, announced Thursday (Aug. 17) that it is providing more than 400,000 smaller businesses (SMBs) with access to...
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6.3KPartnerships / AcquisitionsPayPal Acquires Swift Financial To Expand SMB Lending Options
The Great Recession had a crippling effect on credit markets across the board. Consumers, enterprise-sized businesses and small businesses (SMBs) all found...
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3.8KB2B PaymentsNudging SMBs Into The Global Export Game
The SMB alternative lending space has evolved in the U.S. in large part to help accelerate small businesses’ access to cash. Whether...
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15.8KSMBsJPMorgan Chase And OnDeck Shake Hands On Another 4 Years
Small business owners shouldn’t have to waste their time chasing loans. They have enough to think about without spending hours applying for...
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20.8KB2B PaymentsSmall Biz Hiring Stalls
The tides are turning for small businesses in the U.S. After a spout of optimism, the latest data find a downturn in...
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4.2KInvestmentsKabbage Receives $250M Strategic Growth Investment From SoftBank
Kabbage Inc., a financial services, technology and data platform serving small businesses globally, has announced the agreement on a $250-million equity investment...
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3.5KB2B PaymentsNational Australia Bank Builds SME Lending Features
With home loan growth expected to slow to 4 percent in 2018, National Australia Bank (NAB) wants to build its business elsewhere,...
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3.7KLoansLendio Has Facilitated More Than $500 Million In Small Business Loans
Lendio, a free online service that helps business owners find the right small business loans within minutes, announced it has helped facilitate...
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3.0KB2B PaymentsCircleUp Adds Lines Of Credit To Equity Finance Platform
CircleUp is adding a new way to invest in consumer packaged goods (CPG) brands. The crowdfunding platform — which originally launched to link...
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3.4KB2B PaymentsIndonesian FinTech Launches App For Individual SME Investors
An Indonesia-based alternative lender is turning to the mobile device to attract small business investors. Reports Friday (July 21) said Mitrausahua Indonesia...
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4.0KB2B PaymentsBofA Allows SMEs To Apply For A Loan Through Mobile App
Bank of America (BoA) is expanding its mobile service for small- and medium-sized (SME) customers. An announcement by the financial institution (FI)...
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4.9KB2B PaymentsThe Lines Are Blurring Between Alternative, Traditional SME Finance
Alternative lending has shifted from a competitor of traditional FIs to a collaborator, often lending a digital hand to banks in need...
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3.3KB2B PaymentsFifth Third Implements Faster Access To SMB Lines Of Credit
Fifth Third is making changes aimed at accelerating SMBs’ access to its lines of credit. The bank announced Friday (July 7) that...
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3.7KB2B PaymentsMost U.S. SMEs Struggle With Cash Flow, Survey Says
A new report from Dun & Bradstreet and the Pepperdine Graziadio School of Business and Management finds the majority of small- and...
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2.8KLoansMercado Libre To Offer Working Capital Loans
Mercado Libre Inc, the Argentina online marketplace, is gearing up to offer working-capital loans to entrepreneurs in Brazil and Mexico during 2017, reported...
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3.4KB2B PaymentsiPayment Links Merchants To SMB Lender RapidAdvance
Alternative SMB lender RapidAdvance is linking up with payments and processing company iPayment to expand its reach. The companies announced their partnership this...
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1.9KB2B PaymentsNorth Of The Border, Securing The Supply Chain
SMEs need access to capital, especially when it comes to securing goods and services needed for their own expansion. As eInvoice payment firm...
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5.9KMarketplace Lending PlatformLendio And Comcast Pair On SMB Lending
SMB online lending marketplace Lendio and Comcast announced a collaboration on a pilot program that will give Comcast Business customers easier access...
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5.7KB2B PaymentsDitching FICO, And Finding Another Path To SME Loans
The struggle of small business borrowing is well documented. Indeed, it’s the underlying reason why the alternative SME lending industry exists. But...
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10.8KData DriversHow Fraud Data Streamlines Digital Loan Decisioning
At least two-thirds of consumers who go online apply for a loan. In our latest Data Drivers, Joe DeCosmo, chief analytics officer...
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5.6KB2B PaymentsOff The Continent And Into Puerto Rico For Online SMB Lending
If expansion is key for SMBs, so too is it for lenders. Biz2Credit is linking up with Oriental Bank in Puerto Rico...
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8.4KB2B PaymentsPayPal Powers Payments Ecosystem For SMBs
May 1 – the start of Small Business Week – also marked the day that PayPal launched a solution intended to streamline...
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3.7KPayment MethodsPimkie Taps Kyriba For Early Payment Of Invoices
Kyriba Corp., the cloud-based treasury and working capital solutions company, announced Friday (March 18) that Pimkie chose its supply chain finance solution...
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4.0KB2B PaymentsSME Finance Means Missed Opportunities And Lost Sleep
Let’s take an updated look at SME finance. Across the world, small business finance is about more than how much money is...
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5.1KB2B PaymentsAnother Financing Boost Goes To BlueVine
SME alternative lender BlueVine announced its newest venture capital financing Tuesday (Feb. 28) thanks to Fortress Credit Corp. The company revealed a $75...
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5.8KB2B PaymentsSupply Chain Finance, With An Eye On Size
Invoice solutions firm Tungsten is linking up with supply chain finance outfit Orbian, with an eye on large corporates providing SCF to...
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5.4KInvestments
Two Years Post-IPO, Rocky Journey For OnDeck
Two years out, it’s been quite the journey for OnDeck. Back in December 2014, the online lender took to the public markets,...
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6.0KB2B PaymentsSage Links French SMEs To Fast Financing
Sage is gearing up for a busy year ahead after showing a favorable financial performance for FY 2016 and announcing plans to make...
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4.2KB2B PaymentsSmall Biz Cash Management Struggles Across The Globe
Between the rise of blockchain technology, the market debuts of faster payments initiatives and the advancements in virtual card capabilities, small businesses...
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2.6KB2B PaymentsAlternative Finance, Plausibly, Via Plousio
Despite the turmoil in the alternative finance market, Plousio sees opportunity in linking SMB borrowers to the working capital they need, according...
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3.5KPYMNTS Topic TBDBeating The SMB Cash Crunch
Many firms live the equivalent of paycheck to paycheck — with less than a month’s worth of cash in the bank. Financing receivables...
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10.0KAlternative FinancesAmex Sets Sights On Working Capital Loans
With an eye on Square and other FinTech upstarts, Amex is branching out into working capital loans -- and banking on its...
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4.0KInternationalGreenfield Opportunity Looms In India For Online Financing
Millions of businesses — many of them small — have limited access to capital by traditional means and a need for speed...
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4.6KAlternative FinancesTech — And A Human Touch — In SME Lending
Newly launched CapitalFront is bringing working capital financing and other lending products to SMEs. CEO Brian Simon discusses the ways a tech-oriented...
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3.3KB2B PaymentsLinking Capital And Equipment In 2016
As 2015 draws to a close, SMEs are in the midst of planning capex – and looking for working capital funding. Here’s...
