Retail Innovation Club

FINANCE

Business Wire | September 29, 2023

Credibly, the data science-driven fintech lending platform that champions small- and medium-sized businesses (SMBs), is partnering with Green Dot to expand its suite of small business financial products to include accessible, intuitive and useful business banking solutions. Powered by Green Dot’s banking-as-a-service (BaaS) platform, Credibly Business Banking® will gi...

Technology

Business Wire | August 25, 2023

Small businesses are engines of economic growth in local communities and are facing challenges with growing or enhancing their operations due to surging borrowing costs in a high-interest rate environment. The Federal Home Loan Bank of Chicago (FHLBank Chicago) responds with a two-pronged approach, announcing expanded discounted lending and grants: • 0% interest-rate subsidy increased to $10 million from $2 million through year-end with the Community Small Business Ad...

FINANCE, BUSINESS STRATEGY

plastiq | September 14, 2022

Plastiq Inc., a B2B payments platform built with instant access to working capital, today announced Plastiq Short-Term Financing to provide Small and Mid-Sized Businesses (SMBs) with the working capital they need to drive continued growth. This offering enables SMBs to apply for funds, get an instant decision and activate their credit line in real-time, in the same experience where the business pays vendors. While SMBs represent a $9 trillion dollar Total Addressable Market (TAM) in the United S...

Technology

PRnewswire | April 10, 2023

GoDaddy Inc. , the company that helps entrepreneurs thrive, just released a Small Business Generative AI Prompt Library (smallbusinessprompts.com), a catalog of more than 35 prompts, and growing, ready-made for small businesses to start benefiting from this innovative technology. Each prompt, which is a description of the request you want generative AI to accomplish for you, is specifically designed to help small businesses get helpful results out of tools like OpenAI's ChatGPT and Goo...