Tagged: sme’s

April 2, 2020 @ 8:36 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Online payments company Skrill announced on Wednesday it is now offering its wallet and Quick Checkout solution free of charge to the many small to medium-sized businesses (SMEs) around the world that are providing products or services supporting communities during the COVID-19 pandemic.  According to… Read More

March 30, 2020 @ 12:55 pm By JD Alois  |  

Kabbage, an online lender focusing on SMEs, is apparently temporarily laying off employees in light of the COVID-19 pandemic. Additionally, a support center in Bangalore is said to be shuttering and executives are taking pay cuts as the Fintech struggles to adapt in a landscape… Read More

March 30, 2020 @ 7:30 am By Andrés Abumohor  |  

Small businesses in emerging economies are notoriously underfinanced. Despite making up over 99.5% of the economy in Latin America, SMEs face a financing gap in the trillions of dollars. For example, up to 78% of small businesses in Argentina and 45% in Peru struggle to… Read More

March 27, 2020 @ 4:17 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Sydney-based Tyro Payments (ASX: TYR), an Australian Fintech institution that specializes in merchant credit, debit and EFTPOS acquiring, reports that its transaction volumes during the past three weeks have been steadily increasing. Tyro Payments notes that from March 1 to March 20, there was a… Read More

March 27, 2020 @ 1:34 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

UK-headquartered Capitalise.com is offering Coronavirus Business Interruption Loan Scheme (CBILS) applications, which will allow small business owners to obtain government-backed loans (if approved). Capitalise.com noted that it aims to assist businesses by giving them access to funding which  they may require to “confidently navigate this… Read More

March 27, 2020 @ 8:39 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Trade Ledger, an online lending platform; Wiserfunding, a digital credit scoring platform for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs); Nimbla, a trade credit insurance provider; and NorthRow, a remote client onboarding platform have formed a Fintech taskforce. The taskforce aims to offer an origination and underwriting… Read More

March 26, 2020 @ 8:21 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Most small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) continue to prefer and work with traditional financial service providers, even though there are now many new digital-first businesses. This, according to Revolut Business, which has published a report, titled “2020 Vision: Taking a closer look at antiquated banking… Read More

March 25, 2020 @ 8:45 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

SOLV, an online marketplace that matches lenders and micro-, small and medium-sized MSME borrowers, has expressed concerns regarding the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak, which has resulted in economic uncertainty and instability. SOLV, which is a B2B platform backed by the Standard Chartered Bank, expects SMEs to… Read More

March 25, 2020 @ 9:22 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Credijusto, a Mexican Fintech firm, has revealed that it has secured $100 million in debt from Credit Suisse Group, a Switzerland-based multinational wealth manager, investment bank and financial services company. Credijusto says that it acquired the capital in order to issue more loans to SMEs… Read More

March 24, 2020 @ 8:24 am By JD Alois  |  

Camino Financial, a lender with a mission is to catalyze economic growth within low-to-moderate income communities, is out with a report on the US Latinx SME market and their credit needs. The Camino Financial U.S. Latinx Small Business Survey – Q4 2019, the first in… Read More

March 23, 2020 @ 11:10 am By JD Alois  |  

Creditshelf Aktiengesellschaft (CSQ.F) is reporting that revenue increased 92% during 2019. According to a release, creditshelf saw revenue increase to €4.564 million from year prior of €2.4 million. The growth was due in part to a successful partnership with Commerzbank. Creditshelf is an online lender… Read More

March 19, 2020 @ 4:38 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Banking challenger Judo Bank has reportedly agreed to a three-year long, $350 million committed facility with giant multinational bank Citi. This should help Judo Bank provide funding to small businesses that may be struggling to meet expenses due to the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak. The commitment… Read More

March 18, 2020 @ 9:00 am By JD Alois  |  

Online lender Kabbage has launched a new website “www.helpsmallbusiness.com” designed to support SMEs during the Coronavirus crisis. According to a release distributed by the Fintech, the initiative is a “call to action” that enables anyone to purchase an online gift certificate from participating small businesses… Read More

March 15, 2020 @ 3:13 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

An increasing number of UK Fintech firms are establishing operations in Doha, the capital city of the Middle Eastern country of Qatar. Financial technology companies are setting up their businesses in the country after it introduced progressive investment laws and regulations, according to an official… Read More

March 12, 2020 @ 9:46 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The People’s Bank of China (PBoC) has reportedly acquired 32.35 million RMB (appr. $4.7 million) in special funding in order to finance the ongoing development of its blockchain or distributed ledger technology (DLT)-enabled trade finance platform. The funding, which will be gradually injected during a… Read More

March 11, 2020 @ 8:59 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Mexico-based Fintech firm Clip is introducing another payment method, called “Clip Total.” Adolfo Babatz, the company’s co-founder, said that the new payment solution is like having a “point of sale [system] in the palm of your hand.” During a recent presentation, Clip’s management shared an… Read More

March 11, 2020 @ 6:56 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Equiniti Group’s risk management division, Equiniti Riskfactor, has teamed up with Codat, a company that provides accounting integration APIs, in order to allow small and medium-sized (SME) customers to automatically and securely share financial data with their lenders. Equiniti Riskfactor will be integrating with Codat’s… Read More

March 10, 2020 @ 9:31 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

India-based Fintech industry participant U GRO Capital aims to assist women business owners by offering them convenient access to working capital. U GRO Capital is an online lending platform that focuses on small and medium-sized (SME) businesses. The firm has introduced an unsecured lending product,… Read More

March 10, 2020 @ 4:18 pm By JD Alois  |  

Earlier today, the European Commission posted its “SME Strategy for a sustainable and digital Europe.” The strategy is in recognition that “SMEs play a key role in Europe’s industrial fabric, providing two out of three jobs, and are central to the success of this new… Read More

March 8, 2020 @ 7:00 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

In June 2020, Singapore’s regulatory authorities will be issuing operational licenses to three new wholesale neobanks in order to provide better services to underbanked small-and-medium-sized enterprises (SMEs).  The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) confirmed in mid-2019 that it would begin accepting applications for five new… Read More