SME Finance

Froda brings instant SME financing to France with Shine

Froda brings instant SME financing to France with Shine

Froda, the Swedish embedded financing platform for small businesses, has expanded into France through a partnership with Shine, bringing its digital financing offering directly...
embedded finance

Embedded finance boom collides with regulatory reckoning

Embedded finance has quietly become the invisible engine behind everyday transactions, powering everything from lending widgets on Shopify dashboards to insurance upsells inside rideshare...
Aperture leads $300m asset-based facility with Avant

Aperture leads $300m asset-based facility with Avant

Aperture Investors, an alternative asset manager that forms part of Generali Investments, has led a $300m asset-based financing facility with FinTech firm Avant. The facility...
Fundworks upsizes investment-grade notes to $40m

Fundworks upsizes investment-grade notes to $40m

Fundworks, a tech-enabled financing provider serving small businesses across the US, has extended and increased its investment-grade corporate notes to $40m. The capital raised through...
Mbanq secures first institutional backing for $100m note programme

Mbanq lands first institutional backing for $100m note

Mbanq, a US-based banking infrastructure and embedded finance provider, has secured the first institutional investment into its $100m loan participation note programme, with a...
FLOAT lands €4.5m Series A to close Europe's tech funding gap

Float lands €4.5m Series A to close Europe’s tech funding gap

Float, the Stockholm-founded revenue-based financing platform serving European tech SMEs, has secured €4.5m in a Series A round as it looks to narrow the...
Saible raises £2.9m to protect UK construction payments

Saible raises £2.9m to protect UK construction payments

Saible, a Birmingham-based construction FinTech developing software to prevent project funds being delayed, withheld or trapped before reaching suppliers, has secured £2.9m in funding. The...
Aria raises €7m and secures €240m facility for invoices

Aria raises €7m and secures €240m facility for invoices

Aria, the Paris-based embedded invoice financing platform, has secured a €7m Series A extension alongside a new €240m debt facility as it looks to...
Liberty Mutual Investments backs inKind with $320m deal

Liberty Mutual Investments backs inKind with $320m deal

inKind, a restaurant commerce enablement platform helping eateries access customers, capital and technology, has entered a strategic financing partnership with Liberty Mutual Investments (LMI),...
Oxford Finance closes $400m asset backed securitisation

Oxford Finance closes $400m asset backed securitisation

Oxford Finance, a specialty finance firm that provides senior secured loans to businesses globally, has completed a private placement transaction involving the sale of...

News Stories

Guidewire launches platform for agentic insurance

Guidewire launches platform for agentic insurance

Guidewire, a cloud platform provider for property and casualty (P&C) insurers, has introduced a platform-based approach to agentic insurance, designed to help carriers deploy...

FinTech market roars ahead with over $2.6bn raised this week

As we enter the final stretch of the year, FinTech funding was showing no signs of slowing down as a substantial funding package of...
Why AscentAI makes obligations the unit of RegTech change

Why AscentAI makes obligations the unit of RegTech change

Regulators publish documents, but financial institutions have to manage the individual obligations buried inside them. That mismatch is where a large share of the...
Collective secures $100m to power solopreneur finances

Collective secures $100m to power solopreneur finances

Collective, a financial platform built for self-employed business owners, has secured $100m in new funding to develop what it describes as a financial operating...
Can identity verification survive the age of synthetic identities?

Can identity verification survive the age of synthetic identities?

Identity verification has long relied on the assumption that a person can be distinguished from an impostor through evidence of who they are. But...

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