Open banking platform Yapily and spend management company Soldo have partnered to help businesses in Europe maintain visibility over their payments and control spending. “Leveraging Yapily Payments, Soldo customers can top up their Soldo account directly from their business bank account,” Yapily announced on its...
Small business banking solutions provider Bluevine has launched its first set of features designed to help accountants serve their clients. “With the Accountant Role, small business owners using a Bluevine Business Checking account can easily and securely grant their accountants access to selected account information...
Small business-focused artificial intelligence (AI)-powered financing platform SmartBiz has teamed up with financial services company Cross River to help more small businesses across the U.S. improve their core infrastructure and embedded financial solutions. Cross River will add SmartBiz’s digital application to its existing tech stack...
Starling Bank debuted Bills Manager, a new feature that will help small businesses and sole trader account customers streamline their finances, according to a Wednesday (July 6) company press release. The Bills Manager feature enables small businesses to have a direct debit or standing order...
The pressures of inflation, of external shocks from geopolitics and supply chains will be too much for Main Street small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) to bear. But then again, it ain’t necessarily so. It’s no secret that the smaller firms — the mom and pop...
Small business loan platform Funding Circle has teamed with DreamSpring, a nonprofit community development financial institution (CDFI), to increase funding access for small businesses in underserved communities. “Through this lending-as-a-service program, DreamSpring will be able to expand its distribution and impact throughout the nation and...
For small businesses — long the bedrock of Main Street — the cash crunch has never been more acute. No one needs to be reminded that inflation is among the toughest challenges right now, testing how far revenues and cash can be stretched to meet...
Truist Financial has made a $120 million commitment to support small businesses (SMBs), with a focus on Black, Latinx and women-owned enterprises. As the company said in a news release Monday (June 27), the pledge includes $30 million in philanthropic grants to support nonprofits that...
Tillful, a small business credit platform, will partner with Experian on making credit profiles for businesses that are new to credit or credit-invisible, a press release said. The making of new businesses is going strong, as there were more than 5.4 million new business applications...
