Retail Toolkit

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...

Finance

Lavu | September 29, 2022

Lavu, a major global restaurant software and payments solution provider built by restaurant people, today announces Lavu Capital, offering restaurant merchants cash advances to provide funding that can be used to help run and grow their businesses. Powered by Parafin, a full-stack, embedded fintech company, Lavu Capital gives restaurants, primarily small businesses, easy access to fast capital that typically is not available through traditional bank financing.Unlike a loan that charges interest,...

Finance

Compliance Systems | May 11, 2022

Compliance Systems, the financial industry’s leading provider of modern digital and dynamic compliance documentation, announced that River City Federal Credit Union has selected Compliance Systems to automate and streamline its lending processes with embedded compliance. Compliance Systems is working with Hawthorn River and IMM to provide the credit union with a digital-first banking platform at no cost for its employees and members, including local businesses and community organizat...

Google | May 07, 2020

Google Cloud announced the launch of the PPP Lending AI Solution. The PPP Lending AI Solution is an end to end solution that allows lenders to launch a PPP loan process from portal to submission quickly and at scale.