New Sponsor: National Funding Makes a Push to Help More U.S. Small Businesses

Aug 4, 2022 | Lenders, Small Business (SMB/SME), Startup of the week, Startups | 0

A new lender debuts at FintechLabs this month: National Funding. We are excited to be working with...

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The Small Businesses (SMB) Love/Hate Relationship with their Bank

Jul 20, 2022 | Case Studies, Small Business Banking, Startups | 0

Small business owners often have a love/hate relationship with their banks and financial...

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Human Capital: Keep Financial Makes it Easy for SMBs to Offer Vesting Cash Bonuses

Jun 20, 2022 | Accounting/bookkeeping, Embedded finance, Employee benefits, Small Business (SMB/SME), Startup of the week, Startups | 0

Part of Silicon Valley’s secret sauce are stock options which help attract/retain employees...

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The 7 Key Features of the Best Digital Credit/Charge Cards for Small Businesses (SMB)

May 17, 2022 | Credit & charge cards, Small Business Payments, Startups | 0

Last month, we listed 47 features of digital card accounts. That’s a lot to take in. So what...

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Are NFTs the New Kickstarter for Crowdfunding Small Businesses?

Apr 28, 2022 | Crowdfunding, Cryptocurrency/Blockchain, NFT/Tokens, Small Business (SMB/SME), Startups | 0

  Note: This is a followup to my first web3 post discussing social tokens (the fungible kind)...

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The 7 Most-Desired Premium SMB Banking Features of 2022

Apr 20, 2022 | Challenger Banks, Checking & Transaction Accounts, Small Business (SMB/SME), Small Business Banking | 0

Last week, we listed 72 features of digital bank accounts. That’s a lot to take in. So what...

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Will Embedded Finance (BaaS) Cause a Thousand Small Business (SMB) Banks to Bloom?

Apr 15, 2022 | Challenger Banks, Small Business (SMB/SME), Small Business Banking, Startups | 0

At FintechLabs, we’ve been focused on small business (SMB/SME) financial services for the...

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SMB Corporate Charge Cards: $8B Ramp is Headed Straight Up

Mar 24, 2022 | Credit & charge cards, Small Business (SMB/SME), Small Business Payments | 0

Interview with Ramp founder Eric Glyman (45 minutes; Feb 2022; primarily about stablecoins &...

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First Look: Zions Bank Launches Digital SMB Bank ZiFi

Mar 23, 2022 | Challenger Banks, Savings, Small Business (SMB/SME), Small Business Banking, Startups | 0

It’s been a while since we’ve had a traditional bank launch a digital-first unit aimed...

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The SMB Challenger Banks: Mercury Targets Startups with Banking & Venture Debt

Mar 15, 2022 | Challenger Banks, Checking & Transaction Accounts, Savings, Small Business Banking, Startups | 0

Since Brex exploded in value in 2018/2019, a number of fintech startups are following its playbook...

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40 Crypto Fintech Unicorns

Feb 22, 2022 | Everything else | 0

Since cryptocurrency is such a hot sector, we created a separate offshoot of our Fintech Unicorn...

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SMB Crypto: Should small businesses issue social tokens (or membership NFTs)?

Feb 8, 2022 | Cryptocurrency/Blockchain, Everything else, NFT/Tokens, Others, Small Business (SMB/SME) | 0

We’ve been debating whether it’s time to add a crypto category in our fintech services...

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