(Bloomberg) -- SmartBiz became the first financial-technology firm to receive regulatory approval to be a bank since President Donald Trump took office in January, a regulatory signal that other ...

SmartBiz Loans, a fintech firm for small-business loans, received regulatory approval to acquire CenTrust Bank and its bank charter on Monday. The announcement indicates softening regulatory attitudes ...

SmartBiz announced today the closing of its acquisition of United Community Bancshares, Inc. and its wholly-owned subsidiary, Centrust Bank, N.A. The combined company, renamed SmartBiz Bank ...

SmartBiz specializes in Small Business Administration (SBA) loans. It isn’t a direct lender; rather, it operates as a marketplace that connects small businesses with partner banks that actually ...

United Fiber grows acquisition ARPU 10% by partnering with Calix Success to build a transformative go-to-market and workforce model that positions SmartBiz as the cooperative’s cornerstone small ...

Calix accelerates SmartBiz deployments, enabling support for more types of small businesses like medical clinics and dental practices with existing firewalls, while pre-provisioning and expanding ...

Gifting allows recipients to access the article for free. SmartBiz, a San Francisco-based tech firm that specializes in helping companies find federally backed small-business loans, closed its ...