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Fintech and Small Business Predictions for 2025

With 2025 approaching, the landscape for SMBs is undergoing transformative changes driven by advances in technology, shifts in consumer expectations, and evolving regulatory frameworks. It is a priority for a company to keep a pulse on the industry trends that impact those it serves. How will AI agents transform financial services? What does a shi...

10 January 2025 Fintech

Why It Doesn’t Matter that Banks are Disappearing as the Lenders for SMBs

Access to capital is a cornerstone for the survival and growth of small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs). Traditionally, these businesses relied on strong relationships with community banks and Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFIs). However, as banks consolidate capital and smaller institutions disappear, the financing landscape i...

28 February 2024 Embedded Finance

Growth at all costs is dead; Three lessons founders can learn from SMBs about sustainable growth

I’m sure it won’t come as a surprise to you that the VC-funding boom of the past couple of years is over. With those VCs still sitting on dry powder, hesitant to pull the trigger on growth-stage companies, there’s not much booming happening at all. Companies are raising down rounds to sustain themselves and looking for ways to get by indefinitely,...

15 September 2023 Embedded Finance

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