The British Business Bank, the U.K. government’s economic development bank, has launched a new program designed to support access to finance for smaller U.K. businesses. The Growth Guarantee Scheme, which replaces the Recovery Loan Scheme, is expected to support about 11,000 such businesses through March 31, 2026,...
The growing importance of seamless, customer-centric financial solutions has transformed today’s digital economy. And innovations like embedded lending have revolutionized the financial services ecosystem by increasingly placing small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) at the center of this transformative shift. In the new, emerging financial services...
We’re roughly at the midpoint of 2024, and the midpoint is a good time to take stock of where we’ve been and what lies ahead. For the Main Street small businesses that power job creations and wages — and are dependent on the state of...
Embedded lending — the burgeoning category of payments in which borrowers apply directly within the merchant or provider’s platform — is finding traction with consumers. In fact, five out of six lenders provide access to embedded lending products to consumers, addressing the high demand for...
The most valuable solution is the one that is there when you need it. And for America’s millions of small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs), they mostly share one common problem: access to capital. Karen Webster sat down with Luke Voiles, CEO at Pipe, and Thomas Welch,...
The Small Business Administration (SBA) plans to launch a working capital pilot program featuring a newly structured line of credit for small businesses that is designed to give greater flexibility than a traditional term loan. The 7(a) Working Capital Pilot (WCP) Program will launch later...
Small business banking platform Rapid Finance has introduced updates to its fraud detection platform Lynx. The platform now has a cloud-based rules engine that lets the company’s enterprise customers create customized risk management rules and outcomes, letting them make informed lending decisions tailored to specific...
NatWest has extended the Mastercard Business Savings program to include small business debit card customers in the United Kingdom. Previously, the program was only available to NatWest and RBS business credit card holders, the bank said in a Thursday (May 30) press release. The program...
Triver, a provider of cash flow financing for small- to medium-sized businesses in the United Kingdom, deployed several Experian data solutions to accelerate onboarding and approvals. With these solutions, SMBs using Triver’s platform can complete the application and approval process in as little as six minutes, the...
