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Using Cash Flow Predictive Data in Small Business Lending - 3 Steps for Success

by Chris Harris Writer

Cash flow predictive data has numerous benefits to both small business owners and lenders. It helps banks and other financial institutions streamline loan application processes, determine creditworthiness, offer customized solutions, enhance customer experience and make data-informed lending decisions.

However, lack of details, inaccurate information, and unanalyzed data are some of the many mistakes with cash flow predictive data. These mistakes with data refer to challenges with capturing data.

Another challenge faced by financial institutions is data aggregation. In most cases, lenders need to gather the original data from different sources that need to be normalized. Thus, a lot of manual effort is required to consolidate and standardize the data.

The 3 Steps to Get the Most Accurate Cash Flow Predictive Data

Leverage Innovative Technology

Manual managing and forecasting cash flow data can take a lot of time, leaving little time for analysis. Open financial APIs have introduced technology that can automate data collection from multiple sources such as banking, accounting, and financial accounts.

Integrating advanced technologies like artificial intelligence and machine learning allows APIs providers to transform raw cash flow predictive data into meaningful insights so lenders can easily understand it and offer personalized products and services based on the analyzed data. 

Automating data analytics with the help of AI and ML also saves the time and effort spent analyzing large data sets. These futuristic tools help banks and other financial institutions to  better understand their borrowers’ unique funding needs and boost decision-making speed.

Streamline Data Collection

One of the biggest challenges with cash flow data collection is the number of accounts and transactions included in a cash flow forecasting report. Using an open API helps small business lenders  bring all of their borrowers’ cash flow predictive data into one place. Having one single API to get the most robust accounting, financial, and banking data not only saves time but helps to ensure that the entire financial institution is working off of the data sets.

Open lending APIs deliver the most robust suite of cash flow, accounting, and financial data sets for lending. Lenders can also use a white-label lender portal to see deep critical insight into borrowers' financial health.

Embrace Digital Transformation

Today, many technology companies are utilizing digital technology to analyze big data sets and reduce human effort and resources expended in creating cash flow forecasting. Digital transformation tools such as cash flow forecasting and management software are equipped with open financial APIs, artificial intelligence, and machine learning to simplify the process.

Lenders can use these digital transformation tools to streamline the cash flow predictive data collection and analytics process. A single open API helps lenders to collect and analyze the most accurate and real-time cash flow data and ultimately accurately predict the future financial health of a small business, faster.

Go for an API that enables data aggregation with AI and machine learning for data analytics to provide you a single source of truth for cash flow predictive data.


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About Chris Harris Senior   Writer

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