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SMB Loan Underwriting Prepares For Turbulent Times

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But after years of finding SMBs too unprofitable to finance, lenders have to play catch-up to develop better underwriting processes for greater accuracy and efficiency. This presents a gap in the market and an opportunity for FinTechs to fill it with automated underwriting technologies, like an automated small business credit score.

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Rethinking The SME Loan Underwriting Model In Southeast Asia

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Traditional banks will require credit histories and collateral to underwrite a small business loan, both of which many SMBs in Southeast Asian nations lack. At the root of the matter is often a lack of predictive data to ascertain the creditworthiness of these small- to medium-sized businesses (SMBs). Improving The SMB Lending Experience.

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CapX Taps Moody’s For SMB Loan Underwriting

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Equipment finance company CapX Partners has announced an integration of Moody’s Analytics technology to strengthen its underwriting and risk mitigation capabilities. The company issued a press release on Thursday (Jan.

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B2B Payments Explores An Alternative Path To ACH Adoption

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Paper checks are gradually shrinking their market share in the B2B payments landscape, yet the outdated payment tool remains in-use for up to 80 percent of businesses in the U.S., The other strategy is to migrate to another payment rail, likely Automated Clearing House (ACH), which is quickly climbing the B2B payment ranks.

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B2B FinTechs Diversify Funding Strategies With M&A, IPOs

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However recent analysis from Iron Pillar , as reported recently in the Times of India, suggests that such a slowdown may not be detrimental to the B2B FinTech startup arena. Finland’s Enfuce announced more than $11 million in new funding for its B2B financial services offerings, with Maki.vc leading the investment.

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Invoice Finance Steps Into The Business Recovery Conversation

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Today, B2B payment terms are in dramatic flux, while supply chain disruptions have led to bottlenecks that leave some vendors in short supply of cash. Broadening Risk Mitigation. Having announced a partnership with Dun & Bradstreet , Velotrade is expanding the pool of data from which it draws to underwrite financing.

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For SMB Underwriting, Exploring A More Reliable Kind Of Alternative Data

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But SMB loan underwriting at traditional FIs has, for the most part, remained unchanged, even as alternative lenders began exploring the role of alternative data in the risk mitigation process. “We think this is going to be part of the lending criteria going forward,” he told PYMNTS in a recent interview.