SME financing innovator BlueVine has partnered with cross border payments specialist Veem to make it easier for small business owners to save more on cross border payments.

“If you rely on your bank for sending cross border payments, you’re not alone,” BlueVine VP of Business Development and Partnerships Charles Amadon wrote in a blog post announcing the agreement. “Most smaller businesses do. But ask a small business owner about their experience making cross border payments through their bank and you’re likely to get an earful.”

Adding statistics to the pitch, Amadon pointed to an American Bankers Association payments survey that indicated that payments in general were a major pain point for SMEs. The survey showed that 87% of respondents said their bank did not have “a formal payment strategy,” and that 54% considered their bank’s attitude toward innovation in payments as a “wait and see approach.”

BlueVine offers small businesses financing options including an invoice factoring line of credit and a traditional business line of credit. The company’s invoice financing product provides a credit line from $20,000 to $5 million with flat advance rates of 85% to 90%, free ACH, and $15 per wire. The business line of credit provides a revolving financing option up to $200,000 with interest rates as low as 4.8%. SMEs can get approved as quickly as 24 hours.

For its part, Veem is announcing the partnership as an opportunity for its SME customers to get the kind of preferential financing options typically enjoyed by larger companies. “We’re partnering with BlueVine to provide fast and flexible working capital financing for Veem’s customers,” the company announced in a blog post. “Funding doesn’t have to be what sinks small businesses.”

Founded in 2013, BlueVine demonstrated its SME financing platform at FinovateFall 2014. The company began the year with a decision to increase the limit on its invoice factoring line of credit to $5 million. Also this year, BlueVine appointed Ana Sirbu, the company’s VP of Finance and Capital Markets, to the post of Chief Financial Officer.

Named one of the top 360 entrepreneurial companies in America by Entrepreneur magazine, BlueVine won Best Business Finance Provider, North America at the trade finance global awards last fall. Also in the fall, BlueVine picked up $130 million in debt financing courtesy of Silicon Valley Bank, SunTrust Bank, Bank Leumi, and TriplePoint Venture Growth BDC Corporation. The company has raised $318 million in total funding, and includes Fortress Investment Group, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Menlo Ventures, and 83 North among its investors. Eyal Lifshitz is CEO.

Small business lender BlueVine announced today that it would double the size of its invoice factoring solution and increase the limit for its business line of credit, Flex Credit, by more than 30%.

“In just four years, we’ve dramatically increased our invoice factoring credit line to $5 million, and our business line of credit to $200,000,” Eyal Lifshitz, BlueVine CEO and founder, said. “We continue to be fully committed to providing business owners with robust financing options to help them thrive.”

BlueVine provides two avenues for small businesses looking for funding. With Flex Credit, SMEs can get approved for a line of credit product in 24 hours. With the click of a button, borrowers are able to withdraw funds whenever they need them, with available credit replenished as the funds are repaid. No maintenance fees or prepayment penalties are charged, and interest rates as low as 4.8% are available.

Designed to help free up cash flow, BlueVine’s invoice factoring product differs from traditional factoring solutions by giving businesses flexibility in choosing which invoices they want to fund rather than having to fund all of them. Bluevine also distributes rebates on the same day instead of once a month, and syncs with accounting platforms instead of requiring mailed or faxed original invoices. Businesses can also use BlueVine’s invoice factoring without fear of being locked in to a long-term contract or having to pay sizable termination fees. BlueVine offers flat 85% to 90% advance rates, free ACH transfer, and $15 per wire.

BlueVine’s news comes just a few days after announcing its new Chief Financial Officer. After joining BlueVine as Vice President of Finance and Capital Markets in 2016 – and being named to the Women in Fintech Powerlist last November – Ana Sirbu (pictured) has been appointed CFO. Sirbu has a degree from Harvard University, a background in investment banking, and was a technology investor at both Silver Lake Partners and Google Capital before her tenure at BlueVine.

“Ana has played a critical role in BlueVine’s growth and success,” Lifshitz said. “She has done an incredible job spearheading our capital markets strategy, building out our finance and analytics functions, and strengthening our position in the online business lending market.”

BlueVine demonstrated its small business lending platform at FinovateFall 2014. The company was featured by Entrepreneur magazine earlier this month, in a look at the top 360 best entrepreneurial companies in the U.S. Last fall, BlueVine was awarded Best Business Finance Provider, North America, at the Trade Finance Global awards. BlueVine reeled in $130 million in debt financing back in October – its second in 2017. This gave the firm overall financing of $273 million, of which $68 million is equity funding.

In addition to its Redwood City, California headquarters, BlueVine has offices in New Orleans and Tel Aviv, Israel. The company also today announced a new office in Jersey City, New Jersey, which it believes will help grow its customer base on the east coast of the U.S.

BlueVine, a small business alternative lending company, has just secured a $75 million line of warehouse financing credit. The funds come from Fortress Credit Corp. and/or funds managed by affiliates of Fortress Investment Group.

The company will use the cash to help meet the financing needs of small business owners. This includes expanding Flex Credit, the company’s line of credit financing solution. Ana Sirbu, BlueVine’s vice president of finance and capital markets, says it will help the company to “accelerate into [its] next stage of growth.”

BlueVine launched Flex Credit in April of 2016 to expand beyond invoice factoring by offering businesses a revolving line of credit for which they can be approved within 24 hours. The company’s flagship offering is invoice factoring, which allows companies to turn in unpaid invoices in exchange for working capital to smooth out their cashflow. The credit line ranges from $20,000 to $2 million.

In 2016, BlueVine funded around $200 million in working capital for SMBs. The company anticipates it will fund about $500 million this year. In December of last year, the company closed on $49 million in funding to fuel product expansion. Prior to that, BlueVine was dubbed Best B2B Factoring Service by Business News Daily. The company’s CEO Eyal Lifshitz, along with CTO Nir Klar, CRO Moti Shatner, and VP of Operations Edward Castaño debuted BlueVine at FinovateFall 2014 in New York.