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Accounting Today Homepage | February 11, 2020

Outsourced accounting and business services firm SmartBooks is partnering with Staples Connect to serve the stores’ small-business customers. With Staples Connect, office supply company Staples is aiming to reinvent its traditional stores with community event spaces, coworking facilities, podcast studios, new layouts and a range of professional services for small businesses, including tax and accounting. “Staples is excited to be collaborating with SmartBooks to offer finance, accoun...

Ready Capital and Lendio | May 08, 2020

Ready Capital and Lendio accepted tens of thousands of applications from the smallest of businesses without imposing the strict criteria. $1.3 billion of the $3 billion in approved loans have been funded, according to Ready Capital and Customers Bank. Read More

Healthcare Dive | January 14, 2020

Cigna is partnering with tech-savvy payer startup Oscar Health to jointly sell commercial health plans to small businesses as the Bloomfield, Connecticut-based payer looks to capitalize on Oscar's simplified strategy to expand its footprint in the small group market. The partnership, branded as "Cigna + Oscar," includes integrated medical, behavioral and pharmacy services along with access to a high-performing network of providers. The two payers will share risk under a reinsurance...

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Vivity | October 26, 2021

Small businesses in Orange and Los Angeles counties will now have greater access to high-quality, more affordable health care thanks to Anthem Blue Cross. Anthem’s Vivity Heath Plan today announced it will be expanding its health care offerings to small businesses in both counties beginning in 2022. Vivity is Anthem’s regionally focused health plan with top-ranking non-profit health systems including Cedars-Sinai, Huntington Hospital, MemorialCare Health System, Providence, PIH Healt...