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Figure Announces Strategic Partnership with SMB Lending Platform Credibly to Modernize SMB Capital Markets via Blockchain Rails
-Marks significant expansion into Figure’s rapidly-growing business with SMB-focused partners -Enhances modern capital markets access for America’s small
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[{"type":"text","content":"-Marks significant expansion into Figure’s rapidly-growing business with SMB-focused partners -Enhances modern capital markets access for America’s small business owners NEW YORK and DETROIT, May 05, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Figure Technology Solutions (“Figure,” Nasdaq: FIGR; OPEN: FGRS), the leading blockchain-native capital marketplace for the origination, funding, sale, and trading of tokenized assets, today announced a strategic partnership with Credibly, the AI-powered working capital company focused on expanding and democratizing access to financing for small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs). The partnership marks a significant expansion by Figure into the SMB lending ecosystem, one of the company’s fastest-growing end markets. Today, small and medium-sized businesses provide nearly half of all U.S. jobs and a similar percentage of the GDP, yet they are perpetually underserved: less than half of owners currently receive the level of funding they seek — highlighting the need for a more modern, inclusive approach to capital access. Through the partnership, Credibly will bring its SMB loans and revenue-based financing products onto Figure’s Democratized Prime platform. Credibly’s launch represents the second fintech to use Democratized Prime as a borrower, reflecting growing momentum. Figure is proud to provide its blockchain-native ecosystem, which enables SMB capital providers to access capital markets more efficiently through modern rails that effectively combine the truth layer of blockchain with the decisioning power of AI. The result is greater liquidity and scale, among a host of infrastructure-related benefits that tangibly improve outcomes for borrowers. Credibly will leverage Figure’s ecosystem specifically via: Democratized Prime: an always-on decentralized lending marketplace which functions as a DeFi-native warehouse financing vehicle, that serves as a line of credit for lenders to finance their loans and other receivables almost instantaneously Figure Connect: Figure’s signature blockchain-native marketplace that serves as Figure’s tokenization platform to facilitate whole loan sales and securitization by connecting originators with investorsDigital Asset Registry Technology (DART): a next-generation blockchain-native E-note and lien registry that serves as an immutable replacement of MERS \"The SMB loan capi...