Small businesses are overwhelmingly optimistic about their future growth, according to the latest Small Business Cash Flow Trend Report from OnDeck, the leading small business lending company at Enova  and Ocrolus, the document AI and cash flow analytics platform for lenders.

Key findings include:

Bank of America today announced a new solution to help parents support their children as they begin their financial journeys. SafeBalance Banking® for Family Banking is a bank account that offers parents the tools and resources they need to help their children practice healthy financial habits and learn to manage

Trulioo, an industry-leading identity platform with proven global coverage for person and business verification, today announced its partnership expansion with 

Today, PayU GPO, the leading online payment service provider operating in over 50+ emerging markets, announces the appointment of Ugochukwu Eze as Country Manager in Nigeria. 

Ugochukwu Eze – who has extensive fintech experience spanning 17 years – has served as PayU’s Director/Product Manager in Nigeria for nearly a decade, leading in the conceptualization and development of customer centric solutions critical to the market. 

Multitude Bank p.l.c., a core subsidiary of the Nordic-born listed FinTech, Multitude Group, offers digital lending and online banking services to consumers and SMEs across Europe. The Bank has now partnered with Salt Edge, a leading open banking platform, with a goal to enable instant loan repayments.

BILL, a leading financial operations platform for small and midsize businesses (SMBs), today announced new payment offerings for SMBs and accountants to make payments faster, easier, and more secure. The new capabilities, which are part of BILL’s powerful payments engine, include a new international payment option, Local Transfer, as well as enhancements to BILL’s Instant Payment and Invoice Financing payment offerings.

Klarna, the AI-powered global payments network and shopping assistant, is working with global small business platform Xero, to help small businesses accept payments from consumers wanting a ‘buy now, pay later’ option.

For Xero’s customers*, offering Klarna’s alternatives to traditional credit means they can get paid up front while their customers don’t have to worry about high interest rates and hidden fees. 

Klarna, the AI-powered global payments network and shopping assistant, will launch its flexible payment methods on Adyen’s physical payment terminals across Europe, North America and Australia. Adyen, the financial technology platform of choice for leading businesses, is the first global PSP to launch Klarna simultaneously on all physical payment terminals worldwide. 

Cross-border payments are essential to the success of global trade, but their speed and efficiency are yet to be maximised. Here, Edvards Margevics, Co-partner of