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Nav CEO: Helping SMBs Avoid Online Lending Pitfalls
Nav CEO: Helping SMBs Avoid Online Lending Pitfalls
January 27, 2020  |  B2B Payments

In the wake of the financial crisis, banks’ pullback from small- to medium-sized business (SMB) lending yielded a flood of technology-driven players stepping in to...

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How Crowdfunding Aims To Fill SMBs’ Community Banking Gaps
How Crowdfunding Aims To Fill SMBs’ Community Banking Gaps
January 20, 2020  |  B2B Payments

Community banks are often the familiar faces of the financial services world, and when small businesses seek capital, their neighborhood financial institution can be a...

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Supply Chain Payments Lead Week’s B2B VC Roundup
Supply Chain Payments Lead Week’s B2B VC Roundup
January 17, 2020  |  B2B Payments

With Tradeshift securing a nine-figured fundraise, the supply chain payments company was the undoubted leader of this week’s B2B venture capital fundraise. But the company...

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Fed: Two-Thirds Of SMBs Are Dissatisfied With Online Lenders
Fed: Two-Thirds Of SMBs Are Dissatisfied With Online Lenders
January 14, 2020  |  Loans

In the wake of the Great Recession, small businesses found it difficult to secure loans via banks – and even when they were available, the...

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China Likely To See More P2P Shutdowns This Year
China Likely To See More P2P Shutdowns This Year
January 09, 2020  |  International

China’s peer-to-peer (P2P) lending market is headed for more turbulence in 2020 as more of its popular platforms face potentially being shut down as the...

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SMB Digital Loan Applications Rose 19 Pct. YOY
SMB Digital Loan Applications Rose 19 Pct. YOY
December 30, 2019  |  Loans

As banks continue to shy away from providing small business loans, many small and medium-sized business (SMB) owners have turned to online lending companies to...

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SMBs’ Online Lending Surge Raises Borrower Protection Concerns
SMBs’ Online Lending Surge Raises Borrower Protection Concerns
December 30, 2019  |  B2B Payments

Small businesses continue to flock to online platforms to find much-needed financing, with banks still failing to fill the demand for small to medium-sized business...

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Aye Finance Raises $14M To Bolster SMB Loan Portfolio
Aye Finance Raises $14M To Bolster SMB Loan Portfolio
December 26, 2019  |  B2B Payments

India-based Aye Finance has raised INR 1 billion (more than $14 million) in debt funding from BlueOrchard, reports said Thursday (Dec. 26). Aye Finance said...

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Can Data Driven Lending Displace VC Funding For Some Firms?
Can Data Driven Lending Displace VC Funding For Some Firms?
December 17, 2019  |  Loans

Running a small business is not for the faint of heart — or the deeply optimistic. The numbers, as offered by the U.S. Bureau of...

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