Capital Innovation Lending Reference 
PYMNTS
MARCH 30, 2017
Alternative lending was supposed to be the way SMEs broke through banking barriers to gain access to capital, enabling them to boost growth opportunities, investment options, commercialization of innovations and employment. This is not entirely unusual, as alternative lending is still a relatively new and growing category.
Abrigo
AUGUST 6, 2021
Takeaway 2 Community banks are at a crossroads: innovate or be left behind (or acquired). Community bank” typically refers to financial institutions under $10 billion in assets and a focus on their local communities, although there are no explicitly stated criteria. Community banks are critical to ag lending and small business lending.
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Bank Innovation
MAY 31, 2017
I recently sat down with the marketing team at Anthemis to talk about the changes happening in SME banking and the opportunity for innovation. But new businesses are often multi-jurisdictional from day one, multi-platform and technically sophisticated in everything from equity capital to treasury to accounting and payroll software.
PYMNTS
OCTOBER 21, 2019
Sure, there was a slight lingering concern that a glitch in how the world’s PCs were programmed might accidentally bring on the tech-pocalypse affectionately referred to as Y2K. Uncertainty breeds entrepreneurship, [and] the people who rise from that are the entrepreneurs and innovators who spot the pattern much more so than others.
PYMNTS
FEBRUARY 23, 2020
To offer expanded services as it pursues a digital innovation strategy of harnessing partnerships to provide an enhanced customer experience, Fifth Third is teaming with Fundation for small business loans. Companies that lack access to capital are not able to grow their operations or have had to cut their headcounts.
PYMNTS
MARCH 10, 2020
It’s a self-perpetuating scenario that keeps barriers to capital in place. In a recent conversation with PYMNTS, Raghav Mathur, head of data science and analytics at Singapore-based Grab Financial Group , discussed the opportunities in data technology that can address the region’s most pressing SMB lending needs.
PYMNTS
NOVEMBER 17, 2020
Embedded finance, the release noted, refers to the integration of financial service technologies with other provider solutions. The method will grow tenfold in the next five years, the release stated, citing a Lightyear Capital analysis, as businesses look for ways to access simple, transparent business solutions.
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