The Fintech Times

JANUARY 23, 2025

By automating traditionally manual processes, banks can lend to more borrowers, especially small businesses and underserved communities. She said:Looking ahead to 2025, I see enormous potential in fintech sub-sectors like agentic AI (financial agent AI bots), savings automation, and cash-flow-based underwriting.

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Electronic Transactions Association

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

The report, Advancing Economic Inclusion—Empowering Underserved Communities with Fintech , highlights the innovative products and services revolutionizing the way commerce is conducted through safe, secure, convenient, and rewarding solutions.

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Fintech Review

MAY 10, 2025

Many banks avoid lending to small businesses , younger borrowers, or those without formal employment. Fintech apps attract younger users, underserved populations, and digitally native businesses. Many banks now partner with fintech firms to improve onboarding, underwriting, KYC, or user engagement.

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M2P Fintech

MARCH 24, 2025

This includes employing machine learning algorithms to automate parts of the loan application and underwriting process, as well as using digital platforms to facilitate communication between borrowers, lenders, and other relevant parties. For instance, the increase in use of digital and automated processes is likely to continue.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 23, 2019

LendingClub, Opportunity Fund and Funding Circle announced on Tuesday (April 23) a collaboration aimed at providing small businesses with more affordable credit. The aim is to expand efficient access to affordable credit for more small business owners. billion by 2023.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

At a high level, according to the filing , “With China’s economy shifting towards domestic consumption and the growth of small businesses, the financial services needs of consumers and small businesses have expanded considerably and demand for credit, investment and insurance products is projected to increase substantially.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

Stem’s target client base, said Rabkin Lewis, consists of “not just the artists, but also their management teams, the labels that work with and all the various collaborators, songwriters, producers … all of them are part of a population of creators that we see as being underserved by financial tools and technologies.”.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 7, 2019

Increasingly, FinTechs are targeting corporate and small business banking friction, and exploring how open banking frameworks — including the use of application programming interfaces (APIs) and collaboration with traditional financial institutions — can achieve the disruption they’re looking for. For instance, in the U.K.,

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The Payments Association

MAY 9, 2025

However, smaller firms often struggle to qualify due to tight underwriting standards. The UK governments support for asset finance, including through the British Business Bank, has been a positive step, but access is still largely skewed toward larger or more established SMEs. Bridging the SME finance gap requires more than loans.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 11, 2019

Until recently, these changes rarely impacted the small business (SMB) financial services (FinServ) sphere: Among the biggest challenges for entrepreneurs is accessing bank services that are smaller than enterprise-level offerings, yet more tailored to their needs than consumer-sized options.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

In the news release, the company said it is launching QuickBooks Capital and becoming a direct lender to small business customers in need of working capital. Intuit’s announcement noted the solution was developed on top of its existing data science and machine learning capabilities to underwrite loans to SMBs.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

France’s FairMoney , a small business and consumer micro-lending technology company operating in Nigeria, has announced $11 million in venture capital funding. Currently, more than 200,000 customers use FairMoney to access financing, with the company’s algorithm using data from a user’s smartphone to underwrite those loans.

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Fintech News

OCTOBER 28, 2024

The APIs has not only helped platform partners unlock new revenue opportunities, more importantly, it has allowed ANEXT Bank to engage and enable the ecosystem of partners to accelerate and scale financial inclusion for unserved and underserved MSMEs. The company replaces traditional B2B payment methods (e.g. million in loans.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

Amid the talk of filling in the small business (SMB) financing gap banks have left since the financial crisis, the rush of FinTechs, alternative and marketplace lenders coming to market may have left another business segment behind: the middle market, particularly the lower middle market. This is about augmentation,” he said.

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 10, 2018

What these startups share is the goal of creating customer-centric banking products that target underserved individuals and businesses. Digital banking adoption among consumers and small businesses (SMBs) is at an inflection point. DOWNLOAD THE 61-PAGE consumer banking REPORT. Why now for digital banking startups.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 1, 2017

Small businesses can benefit big if they’re insured by a company that partners with Valen. With a winning hybrid of human and artificial intelligence, Valen uses predictive analytics to help property and casualty insurance carriers give small businesses the coverage they deserve at a price that makes sense.

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Fintech Finance

APRIL 17, 2024

Designed as a one-stop payment hub, ARISE is an easy-to-use, powerful payment solution for SMBs — a category long underserved by the payments industry. Small and midsize businesses account for 44% of the United States GDP, close to half of all employment, and half of the roughly $370Bn in overall tech spending.

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CB Insights

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

‘PayFac’ technology simplifies underwriting and onboarding. Stripe’s business strategy: How the $35B unicorn sets itself apart. Additionally, the company must underwrite risk, and is on the hook in the event of fraud or returned items. Stripe’s business strategy: How the $35B unicorn sets itself apart.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 18, 2018

The problem in connecting consumers to services in still-developing nations is that there is an asynchrony between what is profitable and productive for banks to offer in terms of financial products and the needs of customers and small businesses in developing nations. “It

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PYMNTS

JUNE 15, 2018

The company, which has already secured a non-banking financial license, targets micro-businesses with its working capital and business development loans using proprietary underwriting technology.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 10, 2016

“With Square Reader in Australia, we’re empowering local sellers with the tools they need to start, run and grow their businesses. This is an important step for our company and an exciting moment for a market so committed to innovation and an entrepreneurial small business community,“ said Jack Dorsey, CEO of Square.

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Lending Front

JULY 14, 2021

Yellen made an announcement that was eagerly welcomed by an often neglected sector of small businesses across the country: The U.S. The fight for small business survival is tougher than ever before, especially for minority- and female-owned businesses.

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Lending Front

JUNE 29, 2021

Yellen made an announcement that was eagerly welcomed by an often neglected sector of small businesses across the country: The U.S. The support program comes at a pivotal moment both for CDFIs and the small businesses in the communities they serve. The state of minority-owned small businesses.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

However, Tavares said the landscape is shifting, as LendingPoint and other alternative credit products lend their ears — and their money — to underserved populations. Burnside got his start in small business lending. It was forces of magnitude bigger than the small business space,” said Tavares. Here’s how.

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CB Insights

JUNE 17, 2020

Industry proponents have been making the case for telehealth for years, pointing to its potential to lower costs, ease pressure on overextended healthcare systems, and make care more accessible in rural and underserved areas. The small business sector has also seen an increase in adoption of contactless options.

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Fintech Labs Insights

MARCH 14, 2019

Using a classic startup strategy, they identified an underserved segment, VC-backed startups (especially its fellow alums at Y Combinator), and built a card for their needs. And with that momentum, they’ve moved to a second, and much bigger underserved segment, revenue-rich and capital-poor ecommerce companies.

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Fintech Review

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Digital applications remove the need for extensive paperwork, simplifying the application process and saving valuable time for businesses. Automated underwriting further accelerates the approval timeline. By broadening the scope of credit evaluation, fintech is creating new opportunities for previously underserved businesses.

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Fintech Review

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

By joining forces, they can combine their strengths to improve financial services and reach underserved populations. These fintechs use technology to improve credit assessment and underwriting processes, making loans more accessible and affordable. Regulatory pressures also encourage these partnerships.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 11, 2019

And the loans are for relatively small amounts to make such a sizeable downstream difference. Opportunity Fund offers truck loans for as little as $2,500 and as much as $200,0000 — but the average loan it underwrites is for about $48,000. That comes with a 24- to 60-month term at a 12 percent to 16.5

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