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B2B PaymentsFinTechs Tout Corporate Cards’ Working Capital Opportunity
With corporate card products offering an opportunity for businesses to manage their working capital, service providers have explored new opportunities to promote...
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B2B PaymentsFinserv Finds Multiple Avenues To Connect AR And AP
B2B FinTechs and financial service providers are taking a variety of routes to optimizing both accounts payable (AP) and accounts receivable (AR)...
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B2B PaymentsAmid Pandemic, SMBs Eye Receivables Financing
The cash crunch facing small to mid-sized businesses has sent some firms scrambling for loans, and for alternate forms of financing to...
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B2B PaymentsDrip Solution Will Help SMB Importers Unlock Working Capital
Trade finance firm Drip Capital has introduced a new solution called GoTrade to help companies receiving shipments of meat, seafood and other...
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B2B PaymentsFunding Societies Adds Financing To SGeBIZ Procurement Platform
Singaporean peer-to-peer (P2P) platform Funding Societies will partner with Singapore eBusiness (SGeBIZ) for a new way to provide financing solutions to customers,...
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Gig EconomyAP Automation’s Role In Paying The Gig Economy
The rise of the gig economy is inexorable. By some estimates, within this decade, about half of the U.S. workforce will be...
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Accounts PayableThe Benefits Of Virtual Cards For B2B Payments
Virtual credit cards are one of the more flexible electronic payment methods available, and the world continues its steady march toward greater...
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B2B PaymentsChanges To Business Lending Underway At India’s PSU Banks
India’s state-owned banks are going through changes that could mean an overhaul in business lending, The Economic Times (ET) reported on Friday...
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LoansGoldman Lends MercadoLibre $125M
Goldman Sachs is loaning $125 million to Mercado Crédito, a unit of MercadoLibre. This is the bank’s third loan to a Latin...
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B2B PaymentsADB Warns Of ‘Digital Poverty’ Hampering Trade Finance
The Asian Development Bank, which ramped up the trade finance industry’s focus on broadening access to small businesses after releasing a report...
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B2B PaymentsIn Banking, The Line Between SMB And Consumer Can Blur
In the world of small business financial services, entrepreneurs’ frustrations with banking have been loudly vocalized: firms are often considered too small...
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Faster PaymentsDeep Dive: Real-time Payments’ Impact On Liquidity Management
The proliferation of real-time payments around the globe has had serious implications on liquidity management. Maintaining a safe level of working capital...
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LoansPayPal Hits $10B SMB Lending Milestone
Businesses of a certain size — and in industries as varied as construction and restaurants — know the pain of wondering if...
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B2B PaymentsHow FinTech Helps SMBs Get A Grip On The Numbers
Financial management is mission-critical to the health and vitality of small business (SMB), but it’s also one of the most difficult tasks...
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B2B PaymentsPayoneer Adds Financing Tool For Amazon, Walmart eSellers
Payment platform Payoneer is launching its Capital Advance service, the company announced on Monday (Feb. 25). Designed as a solution to support cash...
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B2B 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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B2B 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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Consumer 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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B2B 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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B2B 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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B2B 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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B2B 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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B2B 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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Alternative 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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Sizzle/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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Cross 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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B2B 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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B2B 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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Today 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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B2B 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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B2B 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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Partnerships / 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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B2B 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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SMBsJPMorgan 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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B2B 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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InvestmentsKabbage 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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B2B 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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LoansLendio 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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B2B 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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B2B 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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B2B 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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B2B 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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B2B 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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B2B 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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LoansMercado 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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B2B 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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B2B 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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Marketplace 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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B2B 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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Data 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...
