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Management

Nuula | May 18, 2022

Nuula, a fintech company focused on providing small businesses the tools and the capital they need to succeed, announced an initiative to help small business owners improve their overall mental and physical well-being. In partnership with Walnut, Nuula's new wellness feature gives small business owners access to life insurance, plus meditation programs and online fitness classes, all for as little as $9/month. Nuula's focus on the entrepreneur's well-being, in addition...

PYMNTS.com | January 27, 2020

In the wake of the financial crisis, banks’ pullback from small- to medium-sized business (SMB) lending yielded a flood of technology-driven players stepping in to fill the SMB credit gap. Entrepreneurs today have more choices than ever before as to how and where they access financing, but in many ways, that journey to capital hasn’t gotten any easier. According to Nav’s newly-appointed CEO Greg Ott, the current market sees an estimated $4 trillion in SMB debt origination each ...

Business Strategy

FIS | February 15, 2022

FIS announced the enhancement of its embedded payments strategy with the acquisition of Atlanta-based, Paytrix. This acquisition supports FIS' objective of expanding its e-commerce products to businesses of all sizes and industries through the integration of payment capabilities into Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) platforms. This acquisition will also enable FIS to deploy embedded financial capabilities alongside its e-commerce products to small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs).
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Gallup News | February 06, 2020

Small-business owners' business optimism has softened slightly but continues to be strong. The latest quarterly Wells Fargo/Gallup Small Business Index is 132, down from +142 in Q4, 2019, but similar to the +136 in Q3 and +129 recorded in Q2. The index is a measure of owners' present and future optimism -- both of which saw modest declines in the Jan. 3-10 survey. The Small Business Index measures small-business owners' attitudes about a wide variety of factors affecting their busine...