Tagged: small businesses

May 23, 2023 @ 9:19 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Assetz Capital recently announced its institutionally funded lending strategy and its move away from retail funding of its lending. The 10-year old alternative lending platform has “continued to focus on its core areas of expertise including ground up residential housebuilding, residential refurbishment, and continued strong… Read More

May 21, 2023 @ 6:31 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Amount, a fintech powering banking technology for consumer and small business account opening, loan origination and financing, announces the appointments of Kevin Trilli as Chief Product Officer and Raj Kolluri as Chief Technology Officer. Kevin Trilli, who “brings over 27 years of industry expertise, joins… Read More

May 15, 2023 @ 8:59 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Founded in 2013, Assetz Capital claims it has become a leading alternative finance provider to SMEs in the UK. Now, as the business marks its ten years of doing business. The firm announced “that over the course of its history its supported the construction of… Read More

May 13, 2023 @ 4:27 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Cowbell, the provider of cyber insurance for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), today released its Cyber Round-Up: Q2 2023 report. The report explores insights from small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) leaders “across the U.S., revealing that many SME leaders with cyber insurance feel better prepared… Read More

May 11, 2023 @ 11:41 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

There are signs of confidence returning to the UK’s 5.5m small and medium-sized businesses and the lending market they rely on, iwoca’s latest SME Expert Index finds. The new research, “carried out with over one hundred SME finance brokers who collectively submitted over 2,500 SME… Read More

May 9, 2023 @ 10:05 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

PolicyStreet, an emerging regional insurtech company, has recorded exponential growth in FY22, with its topline growing by five times compared to the previous financial year (FY21) and attaining sum insured of more than USD 6 billion. Despite the challenging business environment in FY22, PolicyStreet claims… Read More

May 9, 2023 @ 7:55 am By Omar Faridi  |  

NEXT Insurance, a digital insurtech company transforming small business insurance, today announced the promotion of Rachel Jrade-Rice to General Counsel. Jrade-Rice joined NEXT Insurance in 2020 “as Insurance Regulatory Counsel and was quickly promoted to Head of Regulatory Affairs and then again to Associate General… Read More

May 8, 2023 @ 11:21 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Global payments provider Checkout.com has entered an agreement with Mamo, the fintech powering payments for SMEs across MENA, making Checkout.com the payments provider of choice for their flagship product Mamo Business. This deal further supports Mamo’s mission “to accelerate the growth of SMEs in the… Read More

May 6, 2023 @ 10:19 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Equifax (NYSE: EFX) is introducing a new Kount Essentials fraud detection and prevention application on the Shopify App Store. Specifically designed to address the fraud challenges faced by the platform’s millions of small business merchants, this enhanced technology is easy “to implement and customize for businesses… Read More

May 4, 2023 @ 11:17 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Airwallex, a global fintech platform, is pleased to announce the launch of its Go Global campaign in Hong Kong, “unlocking opportunities for SMEs, ecommerce businesses and start-ups to scale and expand internationally.” Airwallex Hong Kong’s continued growth and development in the market “is evidenced by… Read More

May 4, 2023 @ 9:01 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

LexisNexis Risk Solutions released its latest Small and Midsize Business (SMB) Lending Fraud Study. Based on a survey of lenders, SMB lending fraud “has increased significantly during the past 12 months, with many smaller banks, credit unions and fintechs expecting fraud levels to worsen over… 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 27, 2023 @ 4:30 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

NEXT Insurance, a digital insurtech company transforming small business insurance, today announced the launch and availability of the Certificate of Insurance (COI) Analyzer – an innovative, new offering “for small business owners to generate free, instant, custom-made COIs to show valid insurance coverage to potential… 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 25, 2023 @ 3:30 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Melio, a B2B payments platform for small businesses, announced a partnership with Shopify to power Shopify Bill Pay, an accounts payable solution that will transform how Shopify merchants pay and manage their business bills. Through Shopify Bill Pay, merchants will now “have the ability to… Read More

April 24, 2023 @ 8:30 am By Omar Faridi  |  

NEXT Insurance, a digital Insurtech transforming small business insurance, formally announced its strategic hire of Jack Ramsey in order “to lead the company’s agent channel.” Ramsey reportedly “brings over three decades of experience in the insurance industry, with a focus on helping agents who serve… 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 19, 2023 @ 7:52 am By Omar Faridi  |  

British Business Investments, a wholly-owned commercial subsidiary of the British Business Bank, aims “to increase the supply and diversity of finance for smaller businesses across the UK by boosting the lending capacity of a range of finance providers.” Since it was established in 2014, British… 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