Category: Corporate Banking

June 11, 2021

The programme, part of the company’s Start Path initiative, aims to give minority-led start-ups access to the support and funding necessary to scale. Start Path participants will receive direct access to the company’s channels, customers and product teams as well […]

June 9, 2021

American Express and Synchrony are among the bidders looking to replace JPMorgan Chase as the issuer of Amazon’s co-branded credit card, Bloomberg and Reuters reported Tuesday. JPMorgan could get a 15% premium on top of the balance — which is […]

June 7, 2021

Cross-border payments have long been complicated, slow, and expensive for businesses, with a labyrinth of correspondent banks, compliance requirements and entrenched systems often bogging down the movement of money. Lately, digitization of services and new software tools have set off […]

June 4, 2021

Synctera’s ability to haul in so much money probably has something to do with the marquee Silicon Valley name leading the company, CEO and co-founder Peter Hazlehurst, who headed ride-hailing company Uber’s management of global money flows. He left last […]

June 1, 2021

TD Bank’s recent pledge to boost lending to minority-owned businesses comes as a recent report from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York found that many Black-owned businesses, many of which lacked existing relationships with traditional banks, leaned harder on […]

May 14, 2021

A CFO that was trying to time the market before executing an interest rate swap waited too long and ended up costing the company a significant amount of money, a mistake that could have been avoided by using a tool […]

May 5, 2021

As the White House attempts to sell President Joe Biden’s multitrillion-dollar rescue and recovery plans across the country, Vice President Kamala Harris is taking on a leading role as an ambassador to small businesses, particularly in underrepresented communities. On Wednesday, […]

April 20, 2021

Mastercard announced Tuesday a multimillion dollar investment in Fearless Fund, a venture capital firm founded by Black women with the mission of investing in minority female entrepreneurs. The exact amount was not disclosed. The credit card giant also unveiled a […]

April 8, 2021

“Business loan” is a term we know all too well after the pandemic. According to HudsonValley360, the Small Business Administration immediately announced up to $2 million in business loans in the wake up the crisis in March 2020, which snowballed […]

March 24, 2021

The bank launched Kinetic in beta in February 2020. Peter McIntyre, the bank’s small business banking head, recalls the soft launch. It commenced after one of his last meetings in the Waterloo WeWork before the UK went into lockdown. Prior […]