Nelson Cash

Connect FM | May 25, 2020

The last two months have been some of the most difficult of Rahama Wright’s career. For 15 years, Wright has run Shea Yeleen, a beauty brand located in Washington, D.C. Birthed out of a passion to empower women in sub-Saharan Africa, her staff of five helps distribute shea butter products. In turn, they provide jobs for 800 women in Ghana. Since the pandemic started, she’s had to make drastic changes. “Now I’m trying figure out how to continue to run the businesses with a...

Business Strategy

Mercato | November 22, 2022

Mercato, the nation's leading eCommerce platform for independent grocers, has announced its new initiative to improve access to healthy foods and foster economic stability in low-income communities. Thriving Communities works with local governments, private funders and non-profits to bring more grocers onto the eGrocery platform so they can digitize their inventory, offer delivery and enable enrollment and utilization of SNAP online.Mercato, the nation's leading eCommerce platform for in...

Technology

Experian | November 10, 2022

Experian , the world’s leading global information services company, today announced Sentinel™, a suite of commercial entity fraud detection solutions, to help lenders and insurers prevent fraud and protect small to large businesses. The suite has three solutions Multipoint Verification, Identity Velocity and Commercial First Party Fraud Score. An Experian research report found that more than 70% of businesses say that preventing fraud is their top concern, the highest it’...

Business Strategy

MX | October 21, 2021

MX, the financial data platform and leader in modern connectivity, today announced MXdata for Business. Built on MX's industry-leading financial data platform, MXdata for Business enhances business transaction data with cleansed descriptions, business-specific categories, classifiers, merchant logos, location data, and more. MXdata for Business provides a more holistic data solution for organizations interacting with small and midsize businesses (SMBs)—which increases the effectiveness...