Tagged: small businesses

August 31, 2022 @ 8:19 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Assetz Capital, the billion pound+ business lender – funding 1 in 12 new homes by SME House Builders, has raised 119% (£297,697) of its £250,003 target from 240 investor via Seedrs with 21 days left in the firm’s crowdfunding campaign (at the time of writing)…. Read More

August 28, 2022 @ 8:50 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Ageras Group, based in Denmark, recently raised €35 million from CIBC Innovation Banking, according to a corporate statement. Ageras, launched in 2012, has broadened its services over time and now provides a “financial cockpit” for small businesses, including banking accounting, invoicing, payroll, and more. CIBC… Read More

August 26, 2022 @ 8:43 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Capital on Tap has secured a £200m funding facility with JP Morgan and Triple Point “to support UK small businesses.” The funding will help small businesses “access credit at a time when the UK is anticipating a recession and facing historic inflation rates.” Launched in… Read More

August 25, 2022 @ 11:01 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Muse Finance, a finance provider for small, medium and growing businesses, announced that it has closed a $20 million debt facility “to support the growth of small businesses.” The additional funds mean that Muse now “has access to over $96,000,000 USD (or £73,890,000 GBP), having… Read More

August 22, 2022 @ 10:07 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Pie Insurance, an Insurtech company specializing in workers’ comp insurance for small businesses, recently appointed two executives to its leadership team. Ekta Aggarwal joins the company “as chief product officer” and Erin Mesick joins “as vice president of finance.” Both Aggarwal and Mesick will “leverage… Read More

August 16, 2022 @ 3:13 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic were a “hive of activity” for small businesses, with a striking 53% jump in applications to start new companies, according to an update from Fundbox. Now macro economic factors, from inflation to staffing shortages, “are posing significant challenges… Read More

August 16, 2022 @ 8:13 am By Omar Faridi  |  

BankiFi, a provider of embedded banking solutions for small and medium businesses (SMB), has secured $4.8 million “for global expansion into North America.” This strategic growth investment “gives BankiFi the capital to provide its industry-leading embedded banking platform to more than two million SMBs across… Read More

August 13, 2022 @ 3:06 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

BT has announced Barclaycard Payments as the latest business “to join its new partnership network, aimed at helping the UK’s smallest firms to grow.” Barclaycard has signed up to BT’s partnership network, “following The Federation of Small Businesses (FSB), with the aim of delivering a… Read More

August 12, 2022 @ 11:36 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Trovata, which automates cash reporting and forecasting via wholesale (and was set for the UK, and EU launch after a $27 million round in June 2022), recently announced the appointment of Lisa Gutu as VP of Business Development and Vladimir Pintea as VP of Open… Read More

August 10, 2022 @ 7:17 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Global B2B payments and invoicing network TreviPay announced the launch of its Small Business Supplier Network (SBSN) across the United States, which is reportedly “the industry’s first payments network built for banks and their small business customers.” Following TreviPay’s recent launches of specialized networks for… Read More

August 10, 2022 @ 8:27 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The team at UK’s Atom Bank reveals that they’ve become a Registered Firm with the Lending Standards Board, a body “dedicated to upholding fair practices in the lending industry.” Head of Business Lending at Atom Bank, Tom Renwick, has provided more details and “explains what… Read More

August 9, 2022 @ 9:27 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Capify, the specialist SME lender, recently introduced a £40 million fund for UK-based small businesses in order to help with maintaining operations through challenging conditions. The fund has been established in response to growing concerns regarding access to finance from traditional lending platforms and the… Read More

August 6, 2022 @ 4:17 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Ranqx, the digital lending platform built for lenders to small-to-medium sized businesses (SMBs), has expanded its working relationship with Visa (NYSE: V) into North America. Before collaborating with Visa in North America, Ranqx worked cooperatively with Visa in its Asia Pacific region. Under the latest… Read More

August 4, 2022 @ 9:53 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Caary Capital announced a joint effort with Ceridian, which claims to be global leader in human capital management (HCM) technology, “to extend its value to Ceridian’s Powerpay customers.” Powerpay, a Cloud-based payroll and HR solution, is “designed to meet the needs of Canada’s small business… Read More

August 3, 2022 @ 7:12 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

American Express (NYSE: AXP), the Small Business Card issuer in the U.S., has announced American Express Global Pay – a digital solution that enables U.S. businesses to securely “make domestic and international business-to-business (B2B) payments.” Through this new digital solution, business customers can “send payments… Read More

August 3, 2022 @ 12:39 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Novo, the financial platform for small businesses, recently announced that the company has launched Express ACH, a service that will “allow all of Novo’s small business customers to process same-day ACH payments.” Novo CEO Michael Rangel said: “At Novo, we’re focused on giving small businesses… Read More

August 1, 2022 @ 9:52 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Nexi announced a collaboration with Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) intended to innovate virtual payments services and assisting with the digitalization of SMEs, Corporates, Public Administrations and Financial Institutions across European markets via vertical value-added solutions in order to respond to specific requirements as easy to adopt… Read More

July 31, 2022 @ 9:17 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Ageras Group—whose suite of financial and accounting software powers more than one million small businesses across Europe and North America—announced that it has acquired Kontist, a Berlin-based neo-bank “focused on the complex accounting and banking needs of Germany’s growing populations of microbusinesses and self-employed workers.”… Read More

July 28, 2022 @ 10:47 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

TrueLayer, which claims to be Europe’s leading open banking platform, announced the availability of TrueLayer Payments for WooCommerce plugin, “enabling ecommerce SMBs to seamlessly add instant, secure account-to-account payments to their website.” Luxury watch retailer BQ Watches is one of “the first businesses to implement… Read More

July 27, 2022 @ 8:16 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Klarna Kosma, which is Klarna‘s financial technology platform for banking institutions, Fintech firms and retailers, announced its working relationship with Airbank, a digital financial management platform for companies. Klarna Kosma’s Open Banking platform offers Airbank with access to the largest international network of banks, considerably… Read More