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How to Lend More to Small Businesses

Gonzobanker

Of small business owners who applied for a business loan in early 2023, 6 in 10 found it difficult to find affordable financing, and overall, 77% are concerned about their access to capital according to a survey from Goldman Sachs. According to Randi Zeller, senior advisor to Community Reinvestment Fund, USA: “There is no lack of capital.

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Brex: Market volatility not ‘doomsday’ for tech funding

Bank Innovation

billion since its 2017 founding, is optimistic about venture capital funding for tech companies, despite current market volatility. Within our sector, we definitely may have a slowdown, but it’s not doomsday, where nobody […].

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Anticipation For Amazon’s SMB Lending Disruption Grows

PYMNTS

It was the (initially) small FinTech startups that delivered a collective shakeup to the small business (SMB) lending industry. Their next target could be small business lending, and according to some experts, it’s fast approaching the market. When I look at it from a U.S. New reports in Bloomberg on Wednesday (Oct.

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Is The Great Contraction Coming Soon To Alt Lending?

PYMNTS

And that story is currently being acted out over in the online lending segment, as the recent high speed, multi-phase come apart over at Lending Club has markedly destabilized the entire segment. And yet livestock was the go-to metaphor for Pat Grady of Sequoia Capital when he addressed a FinTech conference recently. .

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Without Regulation, Alternative Lenders Turn To Self-Policing

PYMNTS

Last week, OnDeck, Kabbage and CAN Capital banned together to form the Innovative Lending Platform Association (ILPA), an advocacy group to champion increased transparency for small business borrowers in the alternative and marketplace lending sphere. It isn’t the first initiative with this goal.

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ASL and Finastra ink partnership for combined treasury software and DevSecOps offering in Hong Kong

Bobsguide

Hong Kong / Macau – September 28, 2022 – ASL (HKEX stock code: 771), a leading global IT solutions and services provider, has partnered with Finastra, a global provider of financial software applications and marketplaces, to deploy Finastra’s Kondor treasury and capital markets solution in Hong Kong and Macau.

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How Digitization Turned Media’s Cash Flow Upside Down

PYMNTS

” FastPay sees this cash management gap as an opportunity to provide working capital loans to players in the industry. Payment terms for the analog world weren’t as long as they are today, because running an ad on a platform like TV is definitive. And we think that’s pretty innovative, from that point of view.”

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