We look at how buying Brex fits into Capital One’s long-term payments strategy.

Small and medium-sized businesses will account for almost half of the $35 trillion B2B payments market this year. They have been slow to digitize, handing B2B payment providers a unique set of needs to address.

Brex and Novo in the US, along with Qonto in France, have closed on funding rounds that they could use to make broad lending plays that could threaten incumbents.

What 2021’s biggest fintech funding rounds say about the industry: The money hose isn’t going anywhere in 2022—this year’s most lucrative raises can tell us where the industry’s headed next.

The bank can offer products to a new base of small and medium-sized business (SMB) customers via the insurer’s agents and stay competitive with digital challengers.

Oportun's bank charter withdrawal is indicative of the increased regulatory scrutiny surrounding fintechs’ broader banking ambitions—and may also make other neobanks stop and think.

Pairing up the fintech’s products for small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) with the banking giant’s existing suite will give U.S. Bank a formidable lineup to compete with digital challengers like Brex and Square.

SMB credit card fintech gets $100M to expand into crowded corporate US market: UK-based issuer Capital on Tap is ramping up in the US after making its plunge in March—we unpack the troubles ahead for small firms like it competing with established players and not much differentiation.

The addition of checking and savings accounts offers US small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) a robust suite of banking products—and the fintech’s vast merchant network could help it acquire new customers.

The American Express-owned lender added a high-yield checking account for small and medium-sized businesses, giving it an opportunity to cross-sell lending products and deposit accounts.

The Mexican corporate card provider will use the new funds to build out its business-facing offerings apart from the crowded consumer side of neobanking in Mexico and speed up its already strong transaction volume growth.

Square's new SMB offerings could tee up deposit product launch, and its merchant network could help it emerge as a significant threat to the likes of JPMorgan and Bank of America.