Abrigo

MARCH 14, 2024

You might also like this SMB Lending Insights report for banks and credit unions Download report Takeaway 1 Banks need to implement customer retention strategies to keep their valuable customers, not just attract new ones. Instead of just sending a card, take your business clients out to lunch for their birthdays.

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Independent Banker

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Digital lending capabilities are quickly becoming table stakes, particularly when it comes to small business lending. However, banks should first consider their customers’ needs and the infrastructure and features needed in a lending platform before adopting a new digital strategy. Benefits of digital lending.

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PYMNTS

JULY 2, 2020

With the pandemic nudging businesses further into the digital payments realm, commercial card innovation is heating up to capitalize on the opportunity for adoption. Boost Bolsters BMO Harris Bank’s Biz Cards. Global Cash Card’s Legal Saga Ends. ADP Eyes Payroll Card Adoption Jump.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 18, 2019

17) after markets closed that missed the Street, as merchant and services revenues were both below expectations, and write-offs tied to its lending business grew. Specifically, card member loan provisions were $679 million, up 21 percent from last year. Total cards in force were up 7 percent to 54.5

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Bank Innovation

JANUARY 22, 2020

Brex, a corporate card and financial product startup aimed at businesses, plans to broaden its product ecosystem beyond bank accounts and cards.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

Goldman, according to reports in Bloomberg, would be added to the Amazon lending platform, which has traditionally helped merchants get the funding they need to get inventory. Amazon Lending traces its roots back to 2011, and the company had $863 million in SMB loans, according to recent filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 14, 2020

On the plus side, Wells Fargo reported that card fees rose to $912 million in the third period, up from $797 million in second quarter. Wells Fargo also saw heightened debit card usage during Q3. Debit card point-of-sale purchase volume hit $102.9 Others are operating in a less constrained way.”. percent from a year ago.

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PYMNTS

JULY 8, 2020

With commercial cards an increasingly popular choice in the B2B payments space, industry innovators are exploring pockets of opportunity to drive adoption through mitigating friction. For others, commercial card innovation comes in the form of overcoming the adoption hurdle of a lack of supplier acceptance. InstaRem Expands BizPay.

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PYMNTS

JULY 12, 2020

Some of the banks are operating under the idea that the economic downturn won’t be as prevalent during the second half of the year, and that recovery is possible, with investors not likely to award the increasing revenues with much of a high multiple, given their potential transitory natures, according to WSJ.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 27, 2020

In the wake of the financial crisis, banks’ pullback from small- to medium-sized business (SMB) lending yielded a flood of technology-driven players stepping in to fill the SMB credit gap. It’s amazing how much of the industry still operates with fax — it’s expensive, and it’s wasteful.”. The Close Ties of Cash Flow and Funding.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 29, 2018

As Amazon presses further into China to compete with rivals like Alibaba , a job posting on the Amazon website may have just revealed plans for the eCommerce conglomerate to extend its small business lending program into the country. Amazon first began lending to small businesses in 2015, beginning with the U.S., Japan and U.K.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 22, 2020

Commercial cards remain only a fraction of the B2B payments space, but FinTech firms, banks and other financial service providers continue to develop new solutions aimed at boosting adoption. For companies like SmartEquip and Unified Payments Group , that means introducing new ways to lift the burden of suppliers accepting cards.

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Bank Innovation

JANUARY 23, 2019

Operant Founder and CEO Allan Fisch said at a meetup yesterday at Bank Innovation’s headquarters in New York that a consortium would allow the FIs to contribute anonymized data on the performance of their third-party […]. Toronto-based fintech Operant.AI

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 22, 2019

Investors have backed Switzerland-based FinTech startup KiWi to help the firm expand its small business payments and lending operations in Mexico, reports in BankingTech said Monday (Jan. million round was led by investiere and Polytech Ventures, while Symbiotics and the 1to4 Foundation also participated.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

marketplace lending company Funding Options is teaming up with Caxton FX to introduce a prepaid multi-currency payment card for small businesses (SMBs). Employees who use the prepaid card can have their transactions monitored by managers in real time. 7), while also helping SMBs save on foreign exchange (FX) costs. ” U.K.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 23, 2019

Small business lending platform Biz2Credit is collaborating with consulting firm Infosys to expand its white label small business lending-as-a-service solution to more financial institutions. Together, we can make it easier for banks to reimagine lending and embrace innovation faster.”. In a press release issued Tuesday (Oct.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 5, 2019

Cards (as in prepaid, stored-value cards that consumers can use for gambling, payroll and a variety of other uses, many of them novel) are only half the battle. To get a sense of how the world of payments and cards has changed, Cregan told Webster a story about a conference he attended in Las Vegas in 2009. Take payroll cards.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 17, 2020

Sezzle , the California-based alternative payments lender, announced Thursday that it was finally approved by the state’s Department of Business Oversight ( DBO ) for a lending license. The DBO’s approval means that Sezzle can now continue to operate seamlessly in the state and continue to act as the leading U.S.-based

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PYMNTS

JUNE 26, 2020

Small business lending emerged as a common theme in this week’s B2B venture capital roundup, and it’s no surprise, considering the role small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) play in supporting their local economies. million round for India-based small business lending platform Aye Finance, the company recently revealed.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 26, 2019

Capital One Financial posted results that were higher than Street estimates as its core card business grew, as did commercial lending activity. In reference to credit card operations, the company said that as average loans were up $2 billion, purchase volume was up eight percent, and the revenue margin of 16.3

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 6, 2018

China has ordered a lockdown of Beijing’s financial district Monday (August 6) to prevent individuals from protesting a crisis in the peer-to-peer (P2P) lending marketplace. Police were checking identity cards of anyone entering the area to prevent organized demonstrations by groups of investors that lost money as P2P lenders went under.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 16, 2018

Goldman Sachs booked a 4 percent year-over-year revenue increase for the third quarter of 2018, with that growth powered in part by increased lending through its Marcus by Goldman Sachs online consumer savings and lending platform. The Sachs division that includes Marcus — investing and lending — posted Q3 revenue of about $1.86

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

challenger FinTech Cashplus has hired a commercial card risk expert from American Express, reports this week said. Commercial Cards and Payments and before working at Amex, Duseja held a position at Accenture. According to reports Wednesday (Sept. 18), Cashplus announced Rahul Duseja will join the company as its credit director.

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Perficient

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

This blog marks Part 1 of our Embedded Finance Blog Series and will introduce the overarching concept of embedded finance, setting us up to discuss embedded payments, embedded lending, and embedded insurance (all of which fall under the embedded finance umbrella) in future blogs. Use Cases .

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 10, 2018

The latest move took that rate, which is what is charged to banks as they lend to one another, to 2.25 Against that backdrop, as reported by CNBC , credit card rates are eyeing (but are not at) record highs. Rates on credit card debt have crossed the 17 percent mark, as measured by annual percentage rates, and are up markedly from 16.1

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Perficient

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Taking out a credit card and entering its number is a friction point that can cause consumers to abandon both online purchases (7% of abandoned online carts are due to not having a credit card handy or the same credit card accepted by the merchant) and in-person purchase decisions. What about larger, more expensive, purchases?

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PYMNTS

MAY 25, 2018

We have a lot of predatory lending out here, which we want to regulate,” Geoffrey Mwau, director general of budget, fiscal and economic affairs at the country’s treasury, said on Thursday (May 24). Suri told the paper the kiosks act as debit cards. Once the money is deposited, Kenyans can spend it anywhere in the country.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 10, 2016

Two years ago today, Lending Club was ringing the bell on an IPO that one early investor called “a no-brainer.”. Lending Club’s model does not need bank branches on each street corner, and it can turn around in minutes and hours, not days. “I So what went so right for LendingClub two years ago today at its IPO — and then so wrong?

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PYMNTS

MAY 25, 2017

Sage Pay, a payment processing firm for small businesses, has stepped into alternative lending. SMEs can receive a cash advance equivalent to up to one month’s worth of card takings, the company said, with a fixed fee. Liberis, whose operations are backed by British Business Bank investments, will facilitate the financing.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 12, 2019

Nature abhors a vacuum, as the saying goes, and we might say the same for corporate lending. where smaller firms seem stuck in a limbo of fragmented lending solutions, and where loans are pricier than might be seen elsewhere. Data helps lenders make the best risk-adjusted lending decisions.

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CFPB Monitor

MAY 6, 2021

According to the factual allegations in the OCFR’s Charge Letter : The Bank offers in-store retail credit financing as well as store-branded credit cards to Maryland consumers. Atlanticus/Fortiva performs all of the collections, servicing, payment and remittance operations in connection with the accounts.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

Think of banking and you might think of lending and deposits, where firms make money on the spread between what they pay savers and what they take in from borrowers. One area of (overlooked) potential lies with credit cards. It has a lot of compliance requirements, and there is an unsecured lending component to it.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 23, 2017

Alternative lending platform Validus is deploying Visa virtual card technology to help small and medium-sized enterprises in Singapore with unpaid invoices access working capital, according to an announcement Thursday (June 22). Validus operates a platform through which investors can provide financing to SMEs directly.

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Abrigo

APRIL 22, 2024

Recent dynamics of the small business lending market A deep understanding of the small business lending landscape and potential efficiencies can help banks and credit unions grow their portfolios. You might also like this guide for smarter, faster small business lending. Record new business formation and a wider gap between U.S.

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PYMNTS

JULY 27, 2016

The latest victim is Virgin Money , which revealed this week that it won’t be moving forward with plans to begin lending to small and medium-sized businesses — for now. Gadhia announced Virgin’s decision to hold off on SME lending after the company released its 2016 H1 figures.

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Perficient

JULY 11, 2022

Afterpay does not perform a hard credit check on users, but it can still affect credit if users have a credit card as the form of payment connected to their Afterpay account or if they fail to pay back their loans. Although this is certainly expensive for merchants, it has proven to be a worthy investment.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 13, 2017

The alternative lending industry continues to scoff at doubters, and the latest B2B venture capital roundup suggests confidence is growing in the space — and not just in the U.S., Last month was a booming time for alternative lending when top names, like BlueVine, scored hefty sums. Alt-Lending. and across Europe and the U.K.

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