Tagged: sme’s

October 7, 2022 @ 3:07 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

U.S. Bank has announced a new innovative offering “to meet small business owners’ desire for a better line of sight into their future cash flow.” A new online banking tool will “enable the bank’s small business clients to see a 90-day forecast of their cash… Read More

October 5, 2022 @ 11:40 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Rapid Finance, which claims to be a market leader in helping small businesses find sustainable and customized financing solutions through a fast and simple application process, announced its acquisition of digital lending platform provider, Thrive, at American Banker’s Small Business Banking conference. As part of… Read More

October 4, 2022 @ 1:17 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Mastercard (NYSE: MA) announced it is bringing added value to U.S. small business cardholders with new and expanded benefits, with “a focus on convenience, efficiency and cyber security, to directly address some of their most pressing wants and needs.” As reported by the SBA, small… Read More

October 4, 2022 @ 10:58 am By JD Alois  |  

DBT, a Swedish online lender serving SMEs, has raised a SEK 3.1 billion (~$285 million) debt facility from UK-based NatWest and Värde Partners, according to a company statement. Värde Partners is a US-based investment firm and currently manages $2 billion of financial services debt and equity… Read More

October 1, 2022 @ 7:23 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

A year after its successful pilot launch, Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) announced that it will roll out the Amazon Community Lending program as a long-term offering “to help even more sellers grow.” In partnership with B.S.D. Capital, Inc. dba Lendistry, this program will “continue to support… Read More

October 1, 2022 @ 6:44 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

WEX (NYSE: WEX), the global commerce platform that simplifies the business of running a business, announced the public launch of Flume, an FDIC-insured digital wallet uniquely designed “to bridge the digital divide for millions of small-and-medium-sized businesses (SMBs) in the U.S.” Flume is provided by… Read More

September 29, 2022 @ 7:02 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Capchase, a provider of non-dilutive financing to SaaS companies, has announced a new integration with Xero, the global small business platform. Through this integration, UK small business customers will be able “to apply for growth capital via the Capchase app in the Xero App Store.”… Read More

September 29, 2022 @ 5:40 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The team at Mollie is pleased to introduce a new product to help their customers drive growth: Mollie Capital. Described as a fast and flexible way for their customers to access funding, Capital’s launch also signifies their “move into financial services.” Mollie Capital is “a… Read More

September 29, 2022 @ 12:19 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Liberis, a global embedded business finance platform,  announced that they have secured £140m in financing from Barclays Bank PLC and BCI Finance in order “to help secure its global partner expansion and growth plans for the next two years.” This brings Liberis’ total funds raised… Read More

September 28, 2022 @ 11:30 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Thriday, the “all-in-one” financial management platform, takes another leap on its mission to become the fastest way for SMEs “to manage their banking, accounting, and tax with a circa $6 million pre-Series A round led by NAB Ventures and significant participation from existing investor Lempriere… Read More

September 26, 2022 @ 8:21 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Funding Circle (LSE: FCH), which claims to be the UK’s largest small business lending platform, and Bayview Asset Management, an investment management firm headquartered in Coral Gables, Florida, announced a lending partnership that is “targeting the provision of £700m funding to small businesses over an 18… Read More

September 24, 2022 @ 4:56 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

London-based start-up Playter is taking the BNPL space “by storm,” as they announce an increase in the amount of funding SMEs can access through their growth platform, “reducing business owners’ burn rates, increasing runway, and freeing up capital.” Up until now, Playter could offer up… Read More

September 20, 2022 @ 11:10 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The BIS Innovation Hub’s Hong Kong Centre and the Hong Kong Monetary Authority have introduced Project Dynamo, which aims “to deliver a prototype for the compliant use of decentralized finance (DeFi) tools, such as blockchain and smart contracts, to improve access to finance for unfunded… Read More

September 14, 2022 @ 9:51 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Financial technology provider FIS (NYSE: FIS) announced that it is streamlining the way small-to-medium-sized businesses (SMBs) gain access to embedded payments and finance solutions “through software providers with the launch of Worldpay for Platforms.” This new software-as-a-service (SaaS) solution “combines the power of the global… Read More

September 13, 2022 @ 10:01 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Nachonacho, an “exclusive” B2B SaaS Marketplace and spend management solution used by “thousands” of SMBs, recently announced a newly rebranded SaaS marketplace “featuring top SaaS products at up to 30% discounts (lifetime).” NachoNacho’s goal is “to harmonize the subscription economy by reducing friction and waste… Read More

September 12, 2022 @ 11:56 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Fintech Ramp, the spend management and corporate card provider, has launched a lending partner network “to help customers find better long-term financing options.” As mentioned in an update shared with CI, partners “include Stifel, Capchase, Live Oak Bank, SmartBiz Loans, Lighter Capital and Founderpath.” This… Read More

September 11, 2022 @ 6:47 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Allica Bank – the bank built specifically to serve the needs of “established” SMEs – is aiming to make £500 million in committed loan offers “between September and the end of the year, as it continues to ramp up its support for UK SMEs facing… Read More

September 9, 2022 @ 7:49 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Funding Circle, which claims to be the United Kingdom’s largest small business loan platform, has announced its results for the six months “ended 30 June 2022.” As noted in an update shared with CI, Funding Circle delivered “a financial performance ahead of expectations, finishing the… Read More

September 6, 2022 @ 10:17 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Emirates Development Bank (EDB), the financial “engine” of the UAE’s economic diversification and industrial transformation agenda, has announced a lending feature that allows SMEs and startups “to apply for loans of up to AED5 million directly through its Digital Banking App and receive approval or… Read More

September 6, 2022 @ 9:24 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Indonesia’s “first” public-listed technology company, Bukalapak, and Standard Chartered officially launched BukaTabungan, a digital banking service that “leverages the reach of Bukalapak’s all-commerce platform and the technology of nexus, a Banking-as-a-Service (BaaS) solution powered by Standard Chartered.” This follows from an earlier announcement on their… Read More