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Forward Financing Reaches $1 Billion in Funding to Underserved Small Businesses
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Forward Financing Reaches $1 Billion in Funding to Underserved Small Businesses

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Boston-based Fintech Company Expands Main Street’s Access to Capital During Pandemic, Achieves Major Growth Milestone Forward Financing, a financial technology company that provides flexible revenue-based financing to small businesses, announced that they have provided $1 billion in funding since their inception in 2012. The majority of this funding has gone to......
Revenued Simplifies PPP Loan Application Process
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Revenued Simplifies PPP Loan Application Process

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Clear guidelines and proprietary software cut approval time from days to minutes Revenued is a pioneering small business financing company that so far has over 30,000 second-round Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loans approved by the SBA. The firm recently conducted an informal survey to help them better understand and improve......
FranFund Names Carly Lywood Vice President Finance & Human Resources
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FranFund Names Carly Lywood Vice President Finance & Human Resources

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Leading Funding Solutions Provider Promotes Strategic Leader to Spearhead Finance & HR FranFund, a leading provider of franchise and small business funding solutions, announced its promotion of Carly Lywood from Controller to Vice President Finance & Human Resources. Lywood has served as Controller at FranFund, Inc. since 2013. In her......
Community Bank, N.A. Engages Autobooks To Support Small Business Banking Clients
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Community Bank, N.A. Engages Autobooks To Support Small Business Banking Clients

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Autobooks, the small business payment and accounting services platform, today announced they have partnered with Community Bank, N.A. to provide an integrated online banking experience for its small business customers. This partnership is facilitated by Jack Henry & Associates, a leading provider of turnkey financial technology solutions and services. Read......
Biz2Credit Small Business Lending Index Finds Loan Approval Rates at Banks Have Plummeted More Than 50% Since Last January
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Biz2Credit Study Shows PPP Had Large, But Short-Lived Effect on Small Business Survival

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Small Business Economic Indicator Study Examined Cash Flow, Predicts Many Bankruptcies Possible without PPP2 Stimulus Biz2Credit’s new six-month analysis of COVID-19’s impact on small businesses found that government lending programs restored sufficient capital for businesses to weather the effects of the pandemic for a short period, but that many firms......
New GoCardless Report Unveils the Best U.S. States to Start a Small Business
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New GoCardless Report Unveils the Best U.S. States to Start a Small Business

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Wyoming, North Dakota, and Montana are ranked the best states to start a small business in the U.S. GoCardless, a leading fintech for recurring payments, today unveiled a new report on the current state of small businesses in the United States. The new report, “The Best States to Start a Small......
Orion First Launches New Customer Portal for Small Business Lenders
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Orion First Launches New Customer Portal for Small Business Lenders

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Orion First, a commercial loan and lease servicer, has released its latest product: a customer portal, enhancing the customer experience for borrowers. Read More: ACI Worldwide Selected by Entergy Services, LLC for Mobile Payment Options Orion’s new customer portal is a mobile-friendly website designed purely for the end user. With......
H&R Block Study Reveals Majority of Small Business Owners Need Personal Advice to Recover from Pandemic
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H&R Block Study Reveals Majority of Small Business Owners Need Personal Advice to Recover from Pandemic

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A majority of small business owners say in the wake of the pandemic, they need one-to-one business advice. This is just one of the main findings in the first of a four-part study, “Small Business Recovery Series,” by H&R Block (NYSE: HRB) tracking the trends of pandemic-related impacts, attitudes, and......
Square Register launched in the UK
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Square, Inc. to Invest $100 Million in Minority and Underserved Communities

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Square, announced that it intends to invest $100 million in support of minority and underserved communities, driven by the company’s purpose of economic empowerment and its ongoing commitment to racial equity. The investment constitutes three percent of Square’s cash and marketable securities as of the end of the second quarter......
Xero’s COVID-19 Reports Provide Unique Insights About Impact to Global Small Business
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Xero’s COVID-19 Reports Provide Unique Insights About Impact to Global Small Business

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At peak impact,global small business revenues fell by 10 – 40% 43% of small business owners worried about their mental health Small businesses remain resilient despite impact Xero, the global small business platform, released two new reports highlighting the economic and emotional impact of the pandemic on small businesses across......
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