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FEBRUARY 20, 2020

As Open Banking spreads further into the small business (SMB) financial services market, accounting and lending platforms are taking advantage. Small business accounting platform FreshBooks recently announced an agreement to integrate with Taxfyle , a data sharing arrangement that aims to automate tax prep for small business owners.

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JULY 31, 2019

The merchant cash advance is considered the payday loan for many in the small business lending market — and that’s not necessarily a good thing. That bank connectivity allows a company like MO to deploy a different tactic in loan underwriting and risk mitigation, Shidfar explained. Regulators have taken note.

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JANUARY 30, 2019

The PayNet tool uses the firm’s proprietary database to predict borrower risk, and will deploy Numerated’s custom rules-based and borrower segment-based credit decision-making capabilities to match lenders’ risk mitigation needs.

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

Take Udaan , for example, an Indian B2B eCommerce startup that plans to use its latest venture capital raised to introduce business financing and warehousing solutions for its corporate customers. One startup, Colombia’s Portal Finance, also signals investors’ appetites for multitasking B2B FinTech startups. million.

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

Small businesses (SMBs) frequently cite cash flow crunches and the struggle to access capital as key hurdles to the success of their business. As the industry grows, access to small business financial data is a critical component of risk mitigation and underwriting practices.

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AUGUST 1, 2017

The debt financing, reports said at the time, reflected the company’s business model as a direct lender of invoice financing, instead of a third-party intermediary. DueCourse also developed its own risk mitigation technology to use data found within SMEs’ cloud-based accounting platforms to underwrite loans.

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JANUARY 22, 2019

Corporate treasurers are exploring AI for their own cash management and forecasting needs, while AI is also being explored among both traditional and alternative finance players for risk mitigation and underwriting purposes.

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APRIL 8, 2016

In small business lending, the rush of alternative players entering the market is beginning to give way to consolidation — or, at least, collaboration. Adoption of cloud technologies is on the rise, and that’s good news for both the cash flow forecasting and credit underwriting businesses, Morden said. “If

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FEBRUARY 9, 2018

lender is now offering its small business (SMB) borrowers credit insurance policies provided by Euler Hermes to protect themselves against the risk of non-payment of an invoice should their customer become insolvent or fail to pay. Reports Thursday (Feb. 8) said the U.K.

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NOVEMBER 22, 2019

Downing Ventures and Gresham House Ventures led the investment, which will fuel Funding Xchange’s deployment of its white labeled lending offering for other service providers looking to extend small business lending to their own clients. million in funding led by ION Crossover Partners. The Access Group , a U.K.-based

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JULY 11, 2017

Indeed, banks must tread carefully in the world of trade finance, and with such little room for error and financial losses, risk management is critical. In many ways, collaboration with FinTechs has become a key part of risk mitigation for banks, with researchers finding that only 1.4

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JULY 5, 2018

.” According to Vincent, while the European market has experienced significant disruption in retail banking, thanks to regulatory reform, small business banking is only starting to see the same market shifts. ”

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MAY 10, 2018

” Today, however, banks show signs of a struggle when it comes to meeting the increasing demand for digital services among their corporate and small business clientele. Adding pressure to this issue is the fact that bad corporate debts and nonperforming assets on banks’ books are on the rise.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2020

And as financial regulations expand to combat financial crime, many financiers have found trade finance is simply too expensive to underwrite as a result, leading to either higher costs for global traders or banks pulling back from trade finance altogether.

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MARCH 10, 2016

Early Warning , a real-time payments, authentication and risk mitigation solutions provider, announced Wednesday (March 9) that Bank of America is now live in processing real-time P2P transactions through Early Warning’s clearXchange network. Early Warning Boosts Big Banks’ P2P Power. While, in the U.S.,

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