Tagged: smbs

May 3, 2023 @ 8:30 am By Omar Faridi  |  

LHV Bank, a provider of Banking Services and SME Lending solutions, announces it has been authorized “as a credit institution by the Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA), becoming the first institution to receive a banking licence without restrictions in 2023.” This milestone achievement “allows LHV Bank… Read More

May 1, 2023 @ 11:37 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The team at Lendscape are pleased to confirm a new strategic technology partnership in order to “deliver greater efficiencies for finance providers and accelerate access to working capital for SMEs.” As the world’s technology provider for all forms of secured finance, they’ve partnered with Validis,… Read More

April 25, 2023 @ 10:45 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

An American Express (NYSE: AXP) survey of 1,100 U.S. small businesses shows that smaller firms are seeking consolidated cash flow management tools “to foster greater efficiency, profitability, and business growth.” Brett Sussman, Vice President Head of Sales & Marketing, American Express Business Blueprint & Banking,… Read More

April 19, 2023 @ 6:54 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Cowbell, the provider of cyber insurance for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), launched MooGPT – a collection of new capabilities built using large language models and proprietary data. MooGPT uses reinforcement learning techniques “to deliver a real-time conversational experience to appointed agents and active policyholders… Read More

April 18, 2023 @ 11:17 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

In today’s volatile environment, and with 84% of businesses expecting running costs to spike further this year1, SMEs are “increasingly reliant on real-time actionable insights to guide critical decisions.” Latest figures from Pulse, the “one-of-a-kind,” data-driven tool and resource hub for SMEs, from Nucleus Commercial… Read More

April 18, 2023 @ 10:06 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Debitum reveals that their Estonia-based partner – non-bank financing company Evergreen Capital which issues business loans to Estonian SMEs from the manufacturing and services sectors has “released a new ABS program with 26 underlying assets.” According to a blog post published by Debitum, the ABS… Read More

April 17, 2023 @ 8:34 am By Omar Faridi  |  

A report published by the UK’s small business lending platform, Funding Circle (LSE: FCH), in partnership with insights consultancy Savanta, looks at “how resilience for small businesses and the impact of staff wellbeing is more important now than ever before.” Small businesses have “been hard… Read More

April 17, 2023 @ 8:30 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The European Investment Bank (EIB) is granting a €100 million loan to illimity which, in turn, “undertakes to invest an additional €100 million for small businesses through b-ilty, the illimity Group’s digital bank.” As noted in the update, 30% of the resources will be “channeled to… Read More

April 13, 2023 @ 10:20 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Building on four years of work together to enable digital transformation among small businesses, Accion and the Mastercard Center for Inclusive Growth announced a renewal of their partnership and a sustained commitment “to improve the financial health of micro and small enterprises (MSEs) in emerging… Read More

April 13, 2023 @ 10:17 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Singapore businesses have a “cautious” economic outlook, as new data from global fintech Airwallex reveals 7 in 10 small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) here are “bracing for a potential recession within the next two years.” The independent research “considered the challenges SMEs in Singapore would… Read More

April 13, 2023 @ 7:20 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

SMBs based in Latin America have received another boost in lending services with the recent $4 million investment in Kala, a Colombia-headquartered firm creating Fintech infrastructure for enabling more efficient lending. The firm, which has been co-founded by Manuel Alemán, Rodolfo Lazo and Pablo Cattólica… Read More

April 9, 2023 @ 2:36 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Debitum has shared key updates including the number of assets (loans) pooled into Asset-Backed Securities by Loan Originator In March, the Debitum platform reportedly “offered to place investments in 10 ABS programs consisting of 175 loans.” The total number of assets “at the end of… Read More

April 5, 2023 @ 11:47 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Cowbell, the provider of cyber insurance for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), has launched its UK operations and appointed cyber insurance expert, Simon Hughes, as General Manager for Cowbell UK. Hughes joins Cowbell “with a unique blend of experience across the U.S. and the UK,… Read More

April 3, 2023 @ 10:52 am By Omar Faridi  |  

ING Bank N.V. has partnered with Salt Edge, which claims to be a pioneer in providing open banking solutions, “for leveraging the widest international bank connectivity and thus, unlocking a whole new range of open banking use cases for SME segments from various industries, corporate,… Read More

March 30, 2023 @ 9:11 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Nucleus Commercial Finance research highlights the scale of the challenge facing UK SMEs: 65% of SMEs are finding the current cost-of-living crisis is proving more of a burden on their business than the pandemic lockdowns Just 33% believe the cost-of-living crisis is proving less of… Read More

March 30, 2023 @ 8:30 am By Omar Faridi  |  

As Chancellor Jeremy Hunt announced measures intended to lift the UK economy in the Spring Budget, data from iwoca highlights what small businesses “were most worried about as they entered 2023.” Small business lender iwoca’s latest SME Expert Index data – based on UK finance… Read More

March 29, 2023 @ 8:49 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Cowbell, the provider of cyber insurance for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), has announced the opening of its new technology center in Pune, India. The center will “augment Cowbell’s existing development centers in Pleasanton, California; Plano, Texas; and Toronto, Canada, and extend the company’s global… Read More

March 29, 2023 @ 7:10 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

SMEs are at the heart of our economy and financial institutions need to do more to help them. It has been found that they play a central role in financial inclusion, representing around 90% of businesses globally and more than 50% of employment worldwide, according… Read More

March 28, 2023 @ 8:41 am By Omar Faridi  |  

New research— recently published by Oxford Economics and in partnership with Funding Circle (LSE:FCH), including a detailed survey of Funding Circle customers—reveals UK SMEs’ durability, with 58% of respondents “saying their experience of dealing with the pandemic’s challenges has made their business more resilient.” Over… Read More

March 27, 2023 @ 6:34 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

  It’s been a stressful few years to run a small business in America — and so far 2023 has been no exception. Inflation, supply chain snags and staffing shortages continue to test business owners, the team at Next Insurance writes in a blog post…. Read More