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SMBs Find Revenue Stability In An Offline-To-Online Migration

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Flexibility will be essential to survival, and the pressure is on for small- to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) and financial service providers to migrate online as their customers continue social distancing. If there’s one thing for certain for small business today, it’s that nothing is certain. Pinpointing the Opportunity.

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Citcon: Payments Can Be The 'Digital Guide' For Retailers

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Chuck Huang, founder and CEO of Citcon , explores how the pandemic has prompted retailers to capitalize on the surge in demand for contactless, digital payments. "As Progressive retailers have paved the way for this with email collection at registers, enabling them to connect their customers’ behavior in-store with them online.

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Enterprise Security Returns To Top Of B2B Investment Mountain

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Cybersecurity returned to the top of the B2B startup investment list as three companies in the enterprise security realm landed nearly half of the $246 million in B2B venture capital this week. Commerce Ventures, Flint Capital, Two Sigma Ventures, Synchrony and Sorenson Capital also participated, according to reports.

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B2B Startups Welcome Another Unicorn With TripActions Funding

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With artificial intelligence (AI), Fraugster has developed a software solution that prevents fraud for online retailers, analyzing data from multiple sources and cross-checking information to determine whether a transaction is fraudulent or not. Asia and broader European markets. SESAMi/Capital Match. quantilope.

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Skincare Startup Fights The Good Fight For Its Future

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Hundreds of retailers – both direct-to-consumer (DTC) and traditional – have lent their expertise and capital to helping the world recover from the devastation of the COVID-19 virus. On the more traditional CPG brand side, Nuria is aimed at the “clean beauty” market, which requires strict standards on ingredients in the EU as well as the U.S.

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Why The Goldman-Amazon Bet On SMB Lending Is No Sure Thing

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And in leveraging Amazon’s scale as a platform — with millions of small to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) and even micro-sized businesses hawking pretty much everything under the sun — it might seem a “slam dunk” if, say, a financial industry powerhouse were looking to bring small business loans to a new market.

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Widening Borrower Protection’s Scope To SMBs

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Borrower protection initiatives have taken aim at predatory lenders, both online and brick-and-mortar, with legislators at the state and federal levels addressing concerns that include a lack of transparency and sky-high fees and interest rates. small businesses had sought a loan online, compared to just 19 percent that did so in 2017.

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