27 May 2022

The Acquire Podcast Ep. 12: How Earnin uses organic community building to grow earned wage access

• Earnin’s CMO Brittanie Williams joins us on the Acquire Podcast.
• With a thriving online community and word-of-mouth strategy at their back, Earnin knows a thing or two about building customer-centric products.

Sorbet’s creative new approach to refinancing employees’ paid time off

• Sorbet is helping employees and employers make the most of PTOs by helping them track burnout and well-being levels.
• Employees' unused PTOs generally sit on a company's balance sheet as liabilities for an extended period, and Sorbet's solution caters to that too.

Bankchain Briefing: What can we learn from the Celsius withdrawal freeze?

• This week, we try to make sense of the Celsius withdrawal freeze and discuss its implications for investors and the wider industry.
• We also hear from Zero Hash co-founder Edward Woodford on the convergence of DeFi and TradFi.

Data Snack: SMBs are growing increasingly resilient against macro headwinds

• SMBs are confident they can successfully get through another period of economic difficulty despite inflation and supply chain issues, a new survey by Kabbage shows.
• Having experienced the pandemic, SMBs feel better prepared to successfully navigate another period of economic turbulence.

Daily Tearsheet: US consumer credit remains healthy in Q1, and how fintech lenders rose in preference for SMBs