Tag: SME finance

PEX lands $160m to save businesses from the Silver Tsunami

PEX, a corporate card and spend management platform founded 20 years ago, has secured $160m in debt and equity financing to help small businesses...

Forward Financing lands $525m to boost SME lending

Forward Financing, a Boston-based FinTech that supplies capital to small businesses throughout the United States, has closed $525m in fresh financing to bolster its...

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...

Bibby secures €250m HSBC deal to fuel SME growth

Bibby Financial Services, the international financial services provider, has secured a €250m facility from HSBC UK as it looks to deepen its backing of...

Indian FinTech funding surged 2.3x QoQ in Q2 driven by growth...

Key Indian FinTech investment stats in Q2 2026: Indian FinTech funding surged 2.3x QoQ in Q2 Funding surge was driven by a 86% growth...

Qashier raises $6.125m after turning profitable

Qashier, a Singapore-based unified merchant operating system for Southeast Asia, has closed a $6.125m Series A+ funding round combining equity and debt. The round was...

BIS and GLEIF prototype could reshape SME cross-border finance

The Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF) and the BIS have unveiled a prototype demonstrating how the Legal Entity Identifier (LEI) can cut compliance...

B2B FinTech Comfi secures $65m Pre-Series A round

Comfi, a UAE-headquartered B2B embedded finance platform focused on unlocking working capital for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), has secured $65m in a Pre-Series...

LatAm FinTech funding declines in 2025 driven by 42% drop in...

Key LatAm FinTech investment stats in 2025: LatAm FinTech funding dropped by 27% YoY in 2025 Deals over $100m fell by 42% as investors...

Asian FinTech investments dropped by 16% as deals over $100m declined...

Key Asian FinTech investment stats in 2025: Asian FinTech funding dropped by 16% in 2025 Deals over $100m declined by 92% amid market uncertainty ...

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