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Sharing ideas on digital transformation, loan automation, reducing credit risk and growing small business customer relationships.
Despite making up 99 percent of European companies and the backbone of its economy, small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) remain underfunded in the billions of euros. Recent research estimates th...
The buzz around SME or MSME Lending has been around for quite some time. For the uninitiated, MSME is Micro, Small & Medium Enterprises. To give you a perspective, Government of India defines ente...
AI has been getting a bad rap when it comes to possible bias. Amazon’s AI recruiting engine, ironically developed to eliminate possible human prejudice, appeared to be biassed against women. It downgr...
There’s a long-standing belief among Fintech founders that you need VC (Venture Capitalist) investment when starting out to make the biggest splash. But this just isn’t the case. I know this from fi...
One of the most exciting events in an entrepreneur’s journey towards building a successful business is the very first one that occurs. That moment – sitting in a downtown coffee shop, standing at a bu...
Most SMEs have significant cash tied up in assets, for example inventory, machines, equipment, real estate or financial assets. Using these assets in an easy and flexible way for lending could unlock ...
The small-medium business (SMB) lending space is hard. For most credit unions, regional and community banks, small business lending represents high risk for low margins, even though it is in their DNA...