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Finance

TreviPay | February 24, 2022

TreviPay announced its acquisition of BATON Financial Services, Inc. TreviPay is a global financial technology company. BATON is a technology company that has built a unique, innovative B2B invoice payments network. Baton's payments network enables the smooth delivery of structured financial services in conjunction with banking institutions to address the trade credit demands of small companies. This successful purchase is part of TreviPay's continued worldwide expansion strategy to impr...

PYMNTS.com: | April 08, 2020

Recognizing that Main Street is being hard hit by the coronavirus pandemic, Mastercard committed $250 million over the next five years to support small- to medium-sized businesses (SMBs), according to a press release. The announcement came during the virtual America CARES Small Business Relief event hosted at the White House on Tuesday afternoon (April 7). The New York-based credit issuer pledged to help defend businesses and their employees through free cyber vulnerability assessments and ident...

Finance

PR Newswire | August 28, 2023

BNI® Global, the world's largest business networking organization, is thrilled to announce its acquisition of BNI Sweden, BNI Norway, and BNI Finland to help foster greater success and growth for the vibrant small business community in Scandinavia. According to the latest data from the European Union (source: europa.eu), small-medium enterprises (SMEs) make up 99.8% of Sweden, Norway, and Finland's total enterprises, with approximately 1.2 million SME businesses acro...

Technology

PRnewswire | July 24, 2023

Operation HOPE, the nation's leading non-profit dedicated to financial literacy, today announced second quarter impact results from its groundbreaking One Million Black Businesses (1MBB) initiative. Launched in 2020, 1MBB has provided access to an integrated suite of services, knowledge, capital and technology tools needed to launch, sustain, and grow new Black businesses, at no cost to program participants. Operation HOPE tracks and measures the success of the 1MBB Initiati...