European Innovation Academy

FINANCE

Visa | June 01, 2022

Visa, a global leader in digital payments, recently announced a partnership with Fundbox, an embedded working capital platform for small businesses, to enhance Fundbox's platform with the power of digital payments. The Fundbox Flex Visa Debit Card, issued by Pathward, N.A., is the first stage in this relationship, and it helps small business customers better manage their cash outflows. In the coming months, Fundbox and Visa will work together to launch several new payment prod...

FINANCE

Centime | April 12, 2022

Centime, a fintech company located in Boston, has announced Cash Flow Control, a first-of-its-kind service designed to assist small and medium-sized businesses in controlling and managing their cash flow. Centime Cash Flow Control is available to all organizations in the United States who use Intuit QuickBooks or Oracle NetSuite as their financial General Ledger systems. The solution comprises multiple interconnected modules that work in concert to support a business's cash co...

SMALL BUSINESS TRENDS

Certn | September 01, 2021

Certn, a British Columbia-based leader in background screening solutions, today announced the general availability of Certn Lime, an effortless self-service background check offering for small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs). Certn Lime is available in Canada and the U.S. in a pay-as-you-go format. SMBs comprise over 98% of businesses in North America alone, according to data from the U.S. Small Business Administration and ISED Canada. For small businesses, it can be tempting t...

TECHNOLOGY

WEX | April 27, 2022

WEX, the global commerce platform that simplifies the business of running a business, announced the launch today of Flume, a digital payment platform designed to enable fast, transparent payments for small and medium businesses (SMBs). The brainchild of the company’s incubator WEX Ventures, Flume is a unique digital wallet specifically designed to support the 30 million U.S. businesses currently relying primarily on slow, analog payment methods. Unlike most payment platforms focused on dig...