Mark Badyra

Running a small business requires a good ability to pay attention to small details, and to improve them as much as you can. You need to be much more focused on every individual client than a larger business, and the same applies to the various small aspects of the business itself. Your company’s logo might not seem that important when you’re just starting out, but the truth is that it matters more than ever at this point.

As the fintech industry continues to change, accessible and straightforward interfaces for end users are key to helping financial institutions better engage their customers. One way many fintechs are creating a superior user experience for customers is with embedded finance. It’s a way to make financial processes like payments work seamlessly with other end-user platforms to make transactions easier and faster.

Small and mid-cap companies are due for a rebound, according to Barclays who screened nearly 400 of its small- and mid-cap stocks in late July. Even though small and mid-cap companies with typically weaker credit profiles have generally taken a harder hit by the Covid pandemic, the bank nonetheless found a number of high-conviction names with improving near-term fundamentals and resilient business models.