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Lithic and Mastercard Make SMB Loans Ready to Spend
Evidence tier: B1 Evidence type: Independent specialist payment-industry report Source: PYMNTS Published: 2026-07-20 Captured: 2026-07-20T18:55:13.266Z
Source summary
Card-based infrastructure, digital wallets and programmable processing are reshaping how lenders deliver funds to SMBs. Small businesses rarely have the luxury of waiting for capital to arrive on someone else’s timetable.
Why it matters
This signal has a direct bearing on payment products, authorization, acceptance, issuing, acquiring, settlement, merchant distribution, compliance, or the economics of payment providers.
Key numbers
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Topics and entities
- Industry lane: Payment infrastructure
- Entities: Mastercard
- Payment infrastructure
- Cross-border payments
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Date evidence: Verified from the article's structured or visible publication date as 2026-07-20.
First-party corroboration
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