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Open Banking Deepens Its SMB Accounting, Lending Presence

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As Open Banking spreads further into the small business (SMB) financial services market, accounting and lending platforms are taking advantage. FreshBooks Inks Tax Integration Deal. Xero, Square Integrate For Faster Invoice Payments. Simply Completes First Open Banking Funding.

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Helping The Smallest Businesses Navigate Credit – And Taxes

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As relayed in recent coverage and interviews with Fundbox and Keeper Tax, the needs (and opportunities) are significant. trillion: Value of the small business lending market as estimated by the CFPB. 20 percent: Keeper Tax’s estimate of gig workers’ tax “overpayment.”.

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How NepFin, HSBC Target A Middle-Market Lending ‘Gap’

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Nature abhors a vacuum, as the saying goes, and we might say the same for corporate lending. There’s opportunity in serving the middle market in the U.S., where smaller firms seem stuck in a limbo of fragmented lending solutions, and where loans are pricier than might be seen elsewhere. and middle-market firms employ 29.7

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FinTech Pressures FI Giants To Strengthen SMB Lending In Mexico

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Some of the largest global financial institutions are taking steps further into Mexico’s small business lending and finance space, the result of heightened competitive pressure imposed by FinTechs and alternative lenders in the market, reports in the Wall Street Journal said Thursday (March 14).

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Reading The Tea Leaves Of Post-Pandemic SMB Lending

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The PPP initiative was instrumental in helping small businesses navigate market volatility in the near term. We did more loans in a two-month period than we did in 10 years of SBA lending combined," he said. "We Historically, traditional business lending is based on historical financial performance," he said.

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China Turns To Tax Policy To Bolster Entrepreneurs

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China introduced new tax initiatives aimed at bolstering the nation’s entrepreneurs, according to local news reports on Friday (May 4). Vice finance minister Cheng Lihua introduced seven new tax policies during a press conference Friday, with the goal of saving small businesses $9.45 billion a year, reports from Xinhua said.

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Fast Action: Tennessee Sportsbook Bets Service Quality On Instant Payments

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We’re growing a market of people who have never bet before in Tennessee.”. While most people have played an office Super Bowl or March Madness pool, Hodges said that legal, regulated betting on sporting events has largely been a cash market enterprise that was the domain of black market bookies. Next Steps.

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