April 26, 2022
Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia Report Finds FinTech Lending Crucial...
Main Street small and medium businesses (SMBs) are still struggling with cashflow issues as the pandemic wanes, but they’ve come to rely on the new breed of FinTech lenders to...
April 21, 2022
Esker Invests $5M in Partner LSQ to Expand Supply Chain...
Supply chain finance (SCF) and technology firm Esker has made an equity investment in partner LSQ, a capital finance and and payments company. The first phase of the investment is...
April 14, 2022
ACI’s 2022 Commerce Innovation Hotlist
Retailers are bouncing back after two years of frenetic change. In the PYMNTS eBook, “Endemic Economics: 32 Payments Execs on the ‘Next Normal’ That Never Happened,” Basant Singh, senior VP and...
March 23, 2022
FIS Unveils Digital Spending Insights Tool for Banks
Digital banking software company FIS has added a new tool to its financial wellness suite called Spending Insights, designed to give customers a better look at their financial activity. “Customers...
March 15, 2022
Buyers, Suppliers Lean Into Automation to Reduce Payments Frictions
Not everybody enjoys negotiation. In the business-to-business (B2B) space, buyers and suppliers often experience friction when negotiating which forms of payment the supplier will accept. Priority Technology Holdings is known for...
March 01, 2022
Automated Document Analysis Works Best When Paired With Human Oversight
With digitization and automation as the order of the day for two years and counting, it’s unusual to hear about how important human decision makers remain in business lending. The...
February 23, 2022
Embedded Banking, Digital Payments Help SMBs Hedge Inflation, Boost Cashflow
Generally speaking, businesses are feeling optimistic about their prospects as economies reopen — and they have incentives to invest in the technologies and initiatives that will make them more efficient....
February 11, 2022
Small Businesses Need Credit, Lenders Need a Better Way to...
Traditional credit scores — for decades, the prime metric to be granted or denied financing — is a bit of a relic, and in the aftermath of a global health...
February 07, 2022
As SoFi and a Handful of Challenger Banks Grow Up,...
There are challenger banks, and now perhaps there’s everyone else. Over the last several years, there’s been a rise of digital-only firms with little more than a slick, user-friendly interface...
