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See highlights from Funder Intel's All In for a Cause Charity Poker Tournament benefiting Second Chance Society. Event photos are now live, with the tournament winner to be featured tomorrow.

Funder Intel launched five free SBA loan tools for brokers: a market data dashboard, rate tracker, lender intelligence database, deal qualification scorecard, and payment calculator. All built on real FOIA data.

Join lending, fintech and banking professionals for All In for a Cause, a charity poker tournament benefiting Second Chance Society on June 25 in Fort Lauderdale.

Siemens just became an SBA 7(a) lender — one of only 16 non-bank SBLCs. Why an industrial giant wants the license, and what vendor finance has to do with it.

Goldman Sachs Joins Parafin: The latest rung on Parafins capital ladder.

Fora Financial's securitization, its fourth ABS since 2019, closed at $130M with better terms than the last, signaling rising investor confidence.

AI in equipment finance just got real: Lendscape's MCP Server lets AI act inside lenders' live systems, with a wall between recommending and executing.

Wafra is buying Navitas Credit from United Community Bank for ~$1.9B. Wafra Navitas acquisition - what it signals.

Sen. Joni Ernst wants the SBA to probe lenders that the USDA expelled. Inside the government-guaranteed lending crackdown, and the due-process questions.

AdvanceIQ.ai integrated PortIQ with LendSaaS, giving MCA and RBF funders live portfolio intelligence, risk insights and analytics.

AI origination is cutting small-dollar SBA loan times from 90 days to 7. Casca now powers Live Oak, Huntington & Celtic, and the alt-finance speed moat narrows.

Groundfloor Launches SMB Growth Fund with Homegrown, giving investors access to small business private credit and revenue-based financing.

ByzFunder closed a $170M KBRA-rated asset-backed securitization backed by small business loans and MCAs, signaling growth in alternative finance.

Pipe, Parafin and Lili show how embedded lending is moving small business financing into platforms, banking apps and merchant workflows.

SBA suspended 27,486 Ohio borrowers tied to $1.1B in suspected PPP and EIDL fraud as pandemic loan prosecutions continue.

Embedded lending isn’t coming. It’s here. And it’s moving faster than anyone can keep up with. including me.

Shopify, Block, PayPal & Fiserv are turning lending into a merchant retention tool. We break down the Q1 2026 numbers. Watch now.

A Michigan man was sentenced to prison for PPP loan fraud and COVID rental assistance fraud, highlighting ongoing pandemic relief fraud enforcement.

Homegrown and Square launch a $24M expansion capital program for multi-location sellers, showing how revenue-based financing is becoming more specialized.

Capchase secures $200M to expand its vendor financing platform for enterprise tech vendors as demand for flexible B2B payment options grows.

CFPB Is Investigating Community Lenders: The CFPB is probing at least four CDFIs while $500M+ in approved funding sits frozen. What it means for community lending and...

USDA revokes approved lender status from its OneRD Guaranteed Lending Program after citing $620M in delinquent loans and significant noncompliance.

Palm Beach native Elaine Angene Escoe is on the run for a massive $34 million pandemic relief fraud scheme, making FBI history in the process.

Vermont H.648 would impose licensing, APR disclosures, contract restrictions, and new compliance rules on sales-based financing and factoring providers.