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SMB Alt-Lending Gears Up For Another Industry Shakeup

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After industry consolidation and a leveling-out of venture capital interest, alternative SMB lending remains a strong market, though just like traditional banks, it has also faced new lessons as a result of the current market. But that doesn’t necessarily mean history is repeating itself. ” A Banking Pullback?

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Helping FI’s Develop Their ‘FinTech Sense’

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But that doesn’t mean all the players in payments and financial services have a solid or clear digital strategy. It’s not that banks don’t want to go more digital and mobile, he said. They are heavily regulated and require heavy investment,” both in terms of capital and human resources. “It Outside Standards.

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How Supplier Focus Propels AP Innovation

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Innovation in the accounts payable (AP) space continues to expand, with FinTechs looking to capture their piece of a growing market driven by businesses’ desire to digitize their operations. Investors at SignalFire led the round, while Hillsven Capital, Bloomberg Beta and NextWorld Capital also participated.

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Why agile banks are relying on hybrid cloud

Insights on Business

To address this, banks are moving at lightning speed to find new ways to become more flexible, adapt to new markets and tap into pools of innovation across the fintech ecosystems to expand their reach and streamline their digital strategies. Improved operational efficiency. Cloud is how they are getting there. Boost innovation.

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This Week In Payments: Saving Small Business

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It’s required lots of on-the-spot innovation as firms had to massively rethink their operations from the ground up. But for many of them, this has also been an opportunity for them to really develop their digital strategies. Moreover, he’s seen this rapid all-hands-on-deck push in all corners of industry.

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Expanding Horizons: Corporate Investors Bet On Travel Tech

CB Insights

How is Tech Disrupting the Travel Industry? Join us for a research briefing to see the startups disrupting the industry. Hyatt Hotels and AccorHotels have both reacted to the rise of home-sharing giant Airbnb by unveiling revamped digital strategies and investing in the travel tech space. Intel Capital. First Name.

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Is Small Business Lending Facing a ‘Moment of Reckoning?’

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Source: DeBanked ) Square Capital lent about $1.6 Small business lenders need data in order to be able to identify and call on local small businesses and COIs—existing business depositors, those with loans with other creditors, and those in desirable/targeted industries or other demographics that make them prime calling candidates.

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