Lithic and Mastercard Make SMB Loans Ready to Spend

Watch more: Live Roundtable With Mastercard’s Ginger Siegel and Lithic’s Nikil Konduru Small businesses rarely have the luxury of waiting for capital to arrive on someone else’s timetable. When equipment fails, inventory runs low or a supplier offers a limited-time discount, the difference between approving a loan and making that loan immediately usable can determine whether an opportunity is captured or lost. That gap between approved capital and spend-ready capital is becoming an infrastructur