The Fintech Times

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Fintechs Bizcuit, Valerian Capital and tilt are among the 10 recipients of Mastercard ’s Strive EU Innovation Fund, each awarded €500,000 to develop solutions that address the unique challenges facing small businesses across Europe.

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Fintech Finance

JUNE 18, 2024

GoCardless , the bank payment company, announces a new partnership with the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB ) to offer its members practical tips and advice to help address late payments. FSB campaigns for measures to curb poor payment practices by large companies to small businesses. This needs to change.”

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The Fintech Times

MARCH 4, 2024

Allica Bank , which offers full-service banking for SMEs with between five and 250 employees, is backing a new campaign looking to shake up the SME business savings market, which is leaving small businesses shortchanged.

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The Fintech Times

MARCH 13, 2024

Founded in 2015 and launched in 2017 in the UK, Tide offers financial solutions to small businesses, and plans to extend similar services to German SMEs, aiming to address their administrative and financial management challenges. Tide has employees based in Germany, with plans to expand its presence around the country.

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The Fintech Times

JUNE 18, 2024

GoCardless has partnered with the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) to help provide practical tips and advice to tackle late payments. The FSB GoCardless Late Payments Hub aims to support small businesses by offering guidance on minimising payment administration, improving cash flow as well as evaluating different payment methods.

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Payments Source

JANUARY 10, 2020

A strong economy in 2020 could lift the small-business card market, which is an important source of lending and payments for entrepreneurs and local merchants.

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Fintech Finance

APRIL 16, 2024

Rapid Finance , a small business banking platform helping small businesses find customized financing solutions, in collaboration with Galileo Financial Technologies, a leading financial technology company owned by SoFi Technologies, Inc. Small businesses serve as the backbone of the U.S.

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Fintech Finance

MAY 3, 2024

The research, conducted by Censuswide, polled 1,003 business leaders across the US, and shows that the economic environment SMBs face is challenging their ability to expand abroad. Unsurprisingly, over a third (34%) of small business leaders view inflation as the biggest challenge to their business operating internationally.

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Fintech Finance

JANUARY 26, 2024

This change could save small businesses over a billion dollars in losses globally over the next five years, in turn benefitting the entire ecosystem of consumers and merchants. The impact of first-party fraud can be devastating for small businesses.

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Fintech Finance

AUGUST 7, 2024

We’re particularly pleased to see the uptick in spending at French small businesses after we helped 13 million of them digitize over the last 4 years in Europe and connected them to spectators through the Visa Go app. Visa has launched the Visa Go app to connect spectators and tourists with local businesses during the Games.

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Fintech News

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

But amidst this evolving discourse, micro, small, and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) have been frequently marginalised players, despite pivotal roles in global supply chains, leading to the development of Project Savannah.

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The Fintech Times

JANUARY 15, 2024

As much as 88 per cent of small business owners acknowledge the value of having a mentor, but many don’t have the expertise or employees to turn to. Mastercard Small Business AI is a tool that harnesses the ability of artificial intelligence to deliver customised assistance for small business owners across the globe.

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Fintech Finance

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Leading digital bank Monzo today announces that it has over 500,000 business banking customers and launches a new plan for bigger small businesses called ‘Team’. The new plan gives business owners more control over managing their finances and saves them from endless expense admin. TS Anil, CEO of Monzo, said : “The 5.5

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Lending Front

JUNE 6, 2021

But while the economy in general is expected to boom, many small businesses are still in recovery mode. Of course, many firms opted to apply for fully forgivable PPP loans instead of traditional loans, seeing as the second round of PPP had funds earmarked for underserved small businesses.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 2, 2020

New Hampshire FinTech Bottomline Technologies has launched a free initiative to help the nation’s banks provide relief to small businesses hurt by the COVID-19 pandemic. We hope others will find a way to do the same.”. It will help them deliver digital access to the critically needed SBA guaranteed funding programs, Bottomline said.

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Fintech Finance

DECEMBER 12, 2023

SMEs account for nearly two thirds (61%) of UK employment and form the backbone of the economy. Over half (55%) of SMEs say that late payments have increased in the last six months, with knock-on effects being compounded by the rising cost of doing business.

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Payments Source

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

This will be a pivotal year for business and our economy, a time when small businesses streamline, simplify and define their own new normal for the long run.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 8, 2019

Hundreds of thousands of new small businesses (SMBs) open their doors every year in the U.S., The latest estimates from the Small Business Administration (SBA) peg the number of new SMBs at 414,000 each year, spurring job creation and economic growth for the country, with millennial entrepreneurs at the helm.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 9, 2020

Small-business owners across the United States are feeling more upbeat about the state of the economy as a growing number expect the downturn to be “short-lived,” the National Federation of Independent Business ( NFIB ) reports. the small business group noted in a press release. points in May to 94.4,

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PYMNTS

APRIL 14, 2017

Small businesses are playing a major role in the success and growth of the gig economy, according to a new LinkedIn report. Researchers at LinkedIn found SMEs account for an estimated 40 percent of all hiring activity within the gig economy, reports this week said.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 7, 2020

The announcement came during the virtual America CARES Small Business Relief event hosted at the White House on Tuesday afternoon (April 7). SMB owners access to its Local Market Intelligence solution, which provides customer data to business owners to help them understand consumer spending trends in their communities.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 9, 2019

small business owners last year, it appears the trend may be over. are less optimistic about the national economy, with economic outlook dropping for the fourth month in a row, according to analysis from the National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB). After record levels of optimism among U.S.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 25, 2021

Yitz Mendlowitz, founder and CEO of PAAY , shares his insights on how the pandemic has impacted small businesses, and what they should do in the year ahead to prevent fraud and survive in the new digital economy. With an effective fraud prevention solution, businesses can successfully adapt.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

Small business owners have historically faced a unique challenge in the banking world: Financial institutions (FIs) can sometimes fail to clearly define their small business services, blurring the lines between personal and corporate banking and forcing an SMB to fit somewhere within that ambiguity.

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Fintech Finance

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

The current cross-border payment system imposes high costs on businesses and economies worldwide, stifling economic potential and limiting financial inclusivity. Any improvement in the efficiency of cross-border transactions would, therefore, lead to considerable benefits for businesses and individuals globally.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 25, 2021

Jonathan Hughes, co-founder and CEO of Pollinate , shares his thoughts on why, and how, the payments industry must support the small businesses coming out of the crisis. Pandemic or not, payments provide the lifeblood of small businesses. In the U.K.,

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PYMNTS

MARCH 18, 2020

A collaborative effort by startup Lunchbox and activist investors Eniac Ventures will aim to help small businesses during the coronavirus pandemic by providing a way to support them, according to a report by TechCrunch. Mehta said chambers of commerce, small business associations and individuals can all add their own listings as well.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 16, 2019

New data showed that small business optimism rose 1.5 According to the National Federation of Independent Business ( NFIB ), six factors in the Small Business Optimism Index improved, three were unchanged, and one fell. The May NFIB Jobs Report also revealed that small business owners added a net addition of 0.32

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PYMNTS

APRIL 3, 2020

Florida-based FinTech FIS is helping lenders provide Small Business Administration (SBA) loans under the coronavirus stimulus package, the company announced Friday (April 3). small businesses and merchants impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. All funds must be distributed by June 30, FIS noted. “As

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 3, 2019

However, according to new research from LexisNexis , loan fraud is now moving into the small business (SMB) front, leading to similar cases of small business loans taken out with no intent to pay, loans obtained via false small business identities or multiple fraudulent small business loans taken out for a single borrower.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

We live in an era when it is possible for a small business with a great product to go global almost overnight, thanks to the power of the internet and mobile commerce. Yet, the opportunities for growth have not resolved the age-old problem of tight cash flow that small businesses face.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

14) said Intuit’s report found a lack of proper record-keeping landed at the top spot of the list of the biggest frustrations for small businesses’ accountants, with nearly three-quarters of professionals surveyed saying this was the most common problem they saw. Reports Thursday (Sept.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

Singapore bank DBS is introducing a new solution for small businesses to embrace digital payments and better manage cash flow, according to an announcement on the FI’s website late last week.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 9, 2019

One way this shift has materialized is in how small businesses seek and hire financial professionals to join their companies. In a 2017 report from job hunting site Indeed , researchers found that “small business accountant” was nowhere to be found in the top-10 job positions sought after by most small business employers.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 4, 2018

The year 2018 was a record year for small business (SMB) optimism in the U.S., The Bank of America Business Advantage “ Fall 2018 Small Business Owner Report ” found continued positivity among the nation’s small businesses, and in their outlook for the months ahead.

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PYMNTS

MAY 6, 2019

In honor of Small Business (SMB) Week , which kicks off in the U.S. on Monday (May 6), banks and financial service providers are releasing troves of new data on how small businesses are managing money and preparing for growth. small business. Forty-three percent plan to seek credit.

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PYMNTS

JULY 21, 2020

economy hard, but few areas were hit harder than small businesses. In spite of their small size, they play a critical role in both their local and national economies. economy when everything is really clicking — which it hasn’t been for the last several months,” he said. “On COVID-19 has hit the U.S.

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