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Kabbage Co-Founders Launch Keep Financial for Employee Retention
Payroll // June 02, 2022

Keep Financial, launched by two Kabbage co-founders Kathryn Petralia and Rob Frohwein, is betting on a business model that helps companies attract and retain top talent. Employers signed up with Keep Financial can regularly distribute a cash bonus to employees as long as they stay...

AmEx’s Kabbage Debuts Small Business Lines of Credit
SMBs // December 08, 2021

The online lender Kabbage has launched a service offering small businesses lines of credit, backed by its owner, American Express.  Unveiled Wednesday (Dec. 8), Kabbage Funding offers credit lines of $1,000 to $150,000, designed to help small businesses manage their cash flow.  “Most small business...

B2B Payments Today: Stoke Talks Timely Freelancer Payments; Amex Wields Kabbage for SMB Banking
B2B Payments // June 15, 2021

Today in B2B payments, Stoke discusses timely freelancer payments, and American Express plans the launch of the Kabbage small business checking solution. Plus, Keysight discusses technology’s selective approach to B2B eCommerce, B4B collaborates with Banking Circle and Jumbotail raises funding for its B2B marketplace. Extending...

American Express Acquisition Kabbage Rolls Out Checking For Small Businesses
B2B Payments // June 14, 2021

Online lender Kabbage, which was acquired by American Express last year, is rolling out a checking account for small businesses, according to a press release. “Small businesses should not have to sacrifice the features they expect from a bank in order to experience the benefits...

Interviews & Exclusives
A Digital Disbursement Fix To Help SMBs Keep Afloat

July 02, 2020
The pandemic is continuing to throw typical business operations for many industries into flux, resulting in disastrous financial consequences. Small- to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) in particular are struggling against the loss of revenue, something that has already led more than 100,000 SMBs within the United States to permanently close down. Government entities in the U.S. […]

The Crowdsourced 1099 Salesforce Enters The Picture

October 04, 2019
We are all salespeople — we all have influence over certain friends, relatives, neighbors and co-workers. Assuming people trust us (assuming other people consider us more than boastful blowhards), they...

Kabbage CEO: SMB Working Capital Needs Don’t Fit ‘Bankers’ Hours’

June 28, 2018
Bankers’ hours — that eight-hour block of time between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. — are a bit of an anachronism in 2018, Kabbage Co-founder and CEO Rob Frohwein told Karen Webster...

Ingo Powers Instant SMB Loan Payouts For Kabbage

April 09, 2018
Kabbage will announce today that its business customers will now get instant loan proceeds via a partnership with Ingo Money. Lisa McFarland, EVP and chief product officer at Ingo Money,...

Quick Reads
National Funding Names Rob Rosenblatt to Head Digital Lending Division

November 01, 2022
Aiming to serve significantly more small businesses, specialty finance company National Funding has hired Rob Rosenblatt as president of its new digital lending division, called Business Loan Center.  Rosenblatt most recently served as CEO of alternative lender Behalf. Before that, he was general manager of lending at Kabbage, headed cobranding and membership awards alliances at […]

Kabbage Co-Founders Launch Keep Financial for Employee Retention

June 02, 2022
Keep Financial, launched by two Kabbage co-founders Kathryn Petralia and Rob Frohwein, is betting on a business model that helps companies attract and retain top talent. Employers signed up with...

AmEx’s Kabbage Debuts Small Business Lines of Credit

December 08, 2021
The online lender Kabbage has launched a service offering small businesses lines of credit, backed by its owner, American Express.  Unveiled Wednesday (Dec. 8), Kabbage Funding offers credit lines of...

House Committee Asks Kabbage, BlueVine For Pandemic Loan Security, Revenue Data

May 28, 2021
U.S. lawmakers have opened an investigation into FinTechs Kabbage and BlueVine, along with their partner banks, for their role in the distribution of billions of dollars in COVID relief money...