Tagged: smbs

November 2, 2023 @ 8:39 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Cowbell, a provider of cyber insurance for small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), today announced significant momentum and new financing on the heels of its top-grossing quarter and amid continued corporate growth. Cowbell’s new financing builds on its $148M raised to-date. Cowbell announced a new investment… Read More

November 1, 2023 @ 8:21 am By Omar Faridi  |  

NEXT Insurance, a technology-first small business insurer, announced its strategic partnership with Allstate that will combine the companies’ expertise in small business insurance to develop and “offer innovative and unique new products to a large underserved market, as well as a commitment to deepening its… Read More

October 31, 2023 @ 6:43 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Small business owners are more optimistic about the future than they were a year ago, with slightly more than half (54%) “saying their business is financially healthy, but inflation is still having a negative effect.” According to the J.D. Power 2023 U.S. Small Business Banking… Read More

October 31, 2023 @ 3:01 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

NEXT Insurance, a digital small business insurer, achieved a marked milestone in reaching 500,000 active small business customers. Throughout NEXT’s journey as a digital insurer, its commitment to the small business community has “remained paramount, driving all aspects of its continued product innovations, partnerships, and… Read More

October 31, 2023 @ 10:28 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Despite a challenging economic environment, 101 new businesses were created every hour across the UK in the first half of 2023, according to research by iwoca – one of Europe’s largest small business lenders. Analysis of Companies House data reveals “that over 436,000 businesses were… Read More

October 31, 2023 @ 10:25 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Smart Pension, one of the UK’s workplace pension providers, and Mercer, the global consulting and investments leader and a business of Marsh McLennan (NYSE:MMC),  launch a new pension solution to meet the accelerating demand for modern retirement technology amongst the UK’s 5.5 million small and… Read More

October 28, 2023 @ 9:20 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Payoneer (NASDAQ: PAYO), the financial technology company empowering the world’s small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) to transact, do business, and grow globally, announced a collaboration with global online marketplace Etsy (NASDAQ: ETSY), to support its bespoke seller offering, Etsy Payments. The collaboration will enable Etsy… Read More

October 27, 2023 @ 4:46 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

NerdWallet, Inc. (Nasdaq: NRDS), a platform that provides financial guidance to consumers and small and mid-sized businesses (SMBs), announced the launch of its first financial product for consumers—NerdUp by NerdWallet—a secured credit card designed to help users build and improve their credit responsibly. NerdWallet identified… Read More

October 27, 2023 @ 12:49 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

We recently spoke with Markus Prommik, CEO and Co-founder of Finfra, a Fintech platform that develops white-labeled lending products for non-Fintech companies seeking to integrate financial services into their platforms. Based in Jakarta, Indonesia, Finfra not only provides practical embedded lending solutions to their clients… Read More

October 26, 2023 @ 6:27 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Visa Inc. (NYSE: V) announced impactful Instant Savings offers for small businesses (SMBs) across North America, comprised of tools and resources aimed at enabling small businesses to grow and meet the expectations of their customers. Through the Visa SavingsEdge website, eligible Visa Small Business cardholders… Read More

October 25, 2023 @ 9:57 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Airwallex, a global payments and financial platform for modern businesses, announced a new global survey that revealed surging demand for cloud-based financial services “with more than 80 per cent of SMBs looking to switch away from traditional banks for their payment needs.” The report, jointly… Read More

October 24, 2023 @ 7:34 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Allica Bank claims that it is “exposing” a “hidden” £7.5 billion a year savings penalty on the country’s hard-pressed SMEs – and is calling “on the wider banking industry to give SMEs a better deal.” While the cost-of-living crisis has led to significant pressure on… Read More

October 24, 2023 @ 7:31 am By Omar Faridi  |  

TAB, the real estate finance and investment house set to have a £500m loan book in 2024, has completed a private securitisation facility with NatWest and Atalaya Capital Management of “up to £300m to support TAB’s lending products.” Both funding partners support TAB’s commitment to… Read More

October 23, 2023 @ 11:10 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The vast majority of SME finance professionals expect the Government to miss its target of halving inflation by the end of the year, iwoca’s Q2 2023 SME Expert Index finds. The new research, carried out with over one hundred SME finance brokers “who collectively submitted… Read More

October 21, 2023 @ 10:12 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Global Invoice Finance provider Accelerated Payments has announced a strategic partnership with UK funding platform Funding Friends in order “to facilitate the accessibility of working capital solutions for UK SMEs and mid to large corporate businesses.” Having previously worked alongside Accelerated Payments Head of UK,… Read More

October 20, 2023 @ 5:44 am By Omar Faridi  |  

InvoiceMate is a blockchain & AI-powered invoicing platform that acts as a bridge between SMEs and financing institutions. InvoiceMate leads to easier financial inclusion “by enabling SMEs access to various forms of credit like invoice discounting, factoring, Buy Now Pay Later (BNPL), and supply chain… Read More

October 17, 2023 @ 11:17 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

iwoca, which claims to be one of Europe’s largest SME lenders, announces a new funding line with initial commitments of £200 million from Barclays and Värde Partners. In January this year, iwoca secured “an increase and extension to its existing funding line, with long-standing partner… Read More

October 11, 2023 @ 10:28 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Small business loan approval percentages at big banks ($10 billion+ in assets) fell again, dropping from 13.2% in August to 13.1% in September, according to the latest Biz2Credit Small Business Lending Index. Big bank lending to small businesses “has dipped every month since June 2022.”… Read More

October 11, 2023 @ 8:16 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Scottish digital bank Alba Bank announced that it will migrate to Mambu’s cloud banking platform to manage its small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) lending services, as well as its retail and business deposits. Alba bank has been approved for a UK banking licence. Alba Bank… Read More

October 5, 2023 @ 9:58 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The UK’s smallest companies could generate £77.3bn of extra revenue and create 885,000 new jobs if they “all digitalized at the rate of the top 20% of tech adopters.” This is according to new research from Xero, the global small business platform, and economics consultant,… Read More