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Enigma LogotypeFinCEN’s November 2024 alert underscores a clear reality seen across industries: fraud powered by generative AI and synthetic media is not just a threat to individuals — it’s rapidly evolving in the business domain. Enigma's Multi-Source KYB is built to combat this trend.
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KYB vs AI Fraud

June 13, 2025
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June 13, 2025

Enigma LogotypeYou might not have noticed, but the Do Not Call list is quietly been working really well
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The "Do Not Call" List is Working

June 5, 2025
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June 5, 2025

Enigma LogotypeCTO Ryan Green Discusses: The decision to rebuild a product from the ground up is a high risk/ high reward undertaking. Not only is it expensive and stressful but most rebuilds fail. After an intense twelve-month build cycle, I'm reflecting on why we made this decision and what we've learned along the way.
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Rebuilding the Foundation: Our Journey to Create Enigma graph-model-1

May 28, 2025
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May 28, 2025

Enigma LogotypeThe Rise of Takeout and Delivery. Enigma discusses the new trend dominating the restaurant industry.
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Enigma Newsletter: Rise of Takeout and Delivery [May 2025]

May 23, 2025
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May 23, 2025

Enigma LogotypeWe have you covered no matter who comes knocking—Enigma’s new SSN Verification Product pairs with its existing EIN Verification to provide comprehensive identity verification for small businesses in your ecosystem.
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Introducing Social Security Number (SSN) Verification: Comprehensive KYB for More Small and Micro Businesses

May 20, 2025
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May 20, 2025

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Ensuring Unparalleled Data Quality in Enigma's graph-model-1

May 14, 2025
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May 14, 2025

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New business survival: Texas vs California

May 6, 2025
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May 6, 2025

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Enigma Newsletter: Inside the Shopify Premium [April 2025]

April 3, 2025
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April 3, 2025

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Tracker - Our New Interactive App Powered by Enigma graph-model-1

March 31, 2025
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March 31, 2025

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How Enigma Uses Embeddings to Power Business Discovery

March 28, 2025
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March 28, 2025

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Announcement: Enigma graph-model-1 (Research Preview)

March 11, 2025
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March 11, 2025

Enigma LogotypeHeatmap of stores inspected as part of NYC's Operation Padlock to Protect, its crackdown on illegal cannabis dispensaries, from the period of May 15, 2024 until August 15, 2024. This heatmap displays inspections/raids done by the NYC Department of Consumer and Worker Protection and the New York City Sheriff’s Office; data for inspections/raids done by the Sheriff’s Office alone as well as those performed between September and December 2024 are not available
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Enigma Newsletter: Tracking NYC's Weed Bodegas [March 2025]

March 6, 2025
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March 6, 2025

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Hicham Oudghiri & Karen Mills on Fintech and Small Business Lending

October 31, 2024
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October 31, 2024

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The State of Small Business Today: An Interview Between Karen Mills and Diana Ransom

October 30, 2024
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October 30, 2024

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Data Driven Insights Into The SMB Restaurant Landscape

October 25, 2024
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October 25, 2024

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Enigma Product Updates: Q3 2024

October 24, 2024
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October 24, 2024

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The Changing Financial Crime Landscape Part 2: TikTok Scams, Alternative Data, and Better KYB

September 30, 2024
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September 30, 2024

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The Changing Financial Crime Landscape Part 1: Online Crime, Rising Fines, and Data Breaches

September 30, 2024
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September 30, 2024

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Enigma Product Updates: Q2 2024

August 1, 2024
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August 1, 2024

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Introducing Enigma Risk and Underwriting

May 7, 2024
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May 7, 2024

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Not So Friendly Fraud: The Growing Chargeback Problem

April 23, 2024
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April 23, 2024

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Sales & Marketing Product Updates: Q1 2024

April 9, 2024
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April 9, 2024

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Onboarding & KYB Product Updates: Q1 2024

April 9, 2024
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April 9, 2024

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Introducing Enigma Customer and Transaction Screening

March 5, 2024
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March 5, 2024

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Onboarding & KYB Product Updates: Q4 2023

January 26, 2024
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January 26, 2024

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How FinCEN’s New BOI Rule Might Affect FIs

January 2, 2024
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January 2, 2024

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A/B Test Results Show That Enigma Data Is Helping Banks Grow 1.4x More Efficiently

December 15, 2023
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December 15, 2023

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A/B Test Results Show That Enigma Is Helping Payments Providers Grow 3x More Efficiently

December 12, 2023
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December 12, 2023

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Controlling for Bias: How We're Strengthening Our Card Revenue Estimates and Making Them Even More Accurate

December 1, 2023
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December 1, 2023

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Using Enigma KYB for Business Identity Verification

October 3, 2023
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October 3, 2023

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How Sales & Marketing Teams Can Target & Acquire the Right SMB Customers

August 17, 2023
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August 17, 2023

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How to Build Your Ideal Customer Onboarding Process

August 15, 2023
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August 15, 2023

Enigma LogotypeWhat is KYB (Know Your Business) and How Do You Meet KYB Requirements? Hero
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What is KYB and How Do You Meet KYB Requirements?

August 8, 2023
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August 8, 2023

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Dev/Stage/Prod is the Wrong Pattern for Data Pipelines

August 2, 2023
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August 2, 2023

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Why B2B Marketing Data Platforms Fall Short When Targeting SMBs

May 31, 2023
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May 31, 2023

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Four Things We Learned from Author and Former-SBA-Administrator Karen Mills About SMBs

May 30, 2023
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May 30, 2023

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How Alternative Data Can Improve Credit Risk Decisioning

May 30, 2023
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May 30, 2023

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Introducing Enigma Sales and Marketing

May 10, 2023
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May 10, 2023

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How Data Can Help Sales, Customer Success, and Marketing Teams Manage SMB Accounts

May 9, 2023
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May 9, 2023

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How Data Can Serve Inbound and Outbound Marketers Targeting SMBs

May 8, 2023
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May 8, 2023

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Getting a Clear View of Revenues at Seasonal Businesses

March 30, 2023
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March 30, 2023

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2023 SMB Data Landscape Report

March 26, 2023
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March 26, 2023

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Q&A: Sarah Burrows of Modern Sprout

March 15, 2023
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March 15, 2023

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4 Ways Financial Institutions Can Leverage Data-Driven Marketing in 2023

March 1, 2023
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March 1, 2023

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How Payment Processors Can Gain Visibility Into Opportunity Size

February 17, 2023
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February 17, 2023

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B2B Data Enrichment — Tools and Best Practices

February 2, 2023
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February 2, 2023

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Entrepreneur Paige Graham on Growth, Seasonality & the Best Merchant Tools

December 27, 2022
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December 27, 2022

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Recession Watch? 9 Insights on the Small Business Economy

November 18, 2022
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November 18, 2022

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Reducing Bias in Our Dataset with New Card Types

November 15, 2022
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November 15, 2022

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Improving Our Research Velocity With lakeFS

November 1, 2022
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November 1, 2022

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Our Compensation Philosophy: Transparency, Uniformity, Fairness

October 28, 2022
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October 28, 2022

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How Restaurant Awards Affect Revenue

October 25, 2022
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October 25, 2022

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Now: Search by URL to View Omnichannel Business Revenue

September 27, 2022
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September 27, 2022

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Every Type of Swipe: Launching Omnichannel Card Revenue

September 6, 2022
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September 6, 2022

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Enigma Revenue Data vs. Reported Revenue: Comparing 4 Brands

August 11, 2022
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August 11, 2022

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Product Vision: Answering Any Question About a Small Business

August 1, 2022
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August 1, 2022

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AUC is Worthless: Data Science in the Business World

July 26, 2022
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July 26, 2022

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​​Industry + Revenue: Find Your Ideal Customers

July 21, 2022
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July 21, 2022

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Finding the Gems in Your Customer Base

July 15, 2022
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July 15, 2022

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Package Management: Exploring New Map Layers

June 23, 2022
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June 23, 2022

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Package Management: Make Your Own Kind of Map

June 22, 2022
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June 22, 2022

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Mapping the World of Package Management

June 21, 2022
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June 21, 2022

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A Conference in Quotes: Fintech Nexus 2022

June 10, 2022
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June 10, 2022

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Introducing Business Hierarchies

May 25, 2022
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May 25, 2022

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What is CRM Data Enrichment? A Complete Guide

May 23, 2022
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May 23, 2022

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B2B Prospecting: Definition, Guide and Tools

May 13, 2022
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May 13, 2022

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A Pandemic Debut: Chicago’s Door 24 Wine Shop

April 29, 2022
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April 29, 2022

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Introducing Enigma for Marketing & Sales

April 14, 2022
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April 14, 2022

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Promoting Our Data Testing Paradigm with Internal Serverless Websites

March 30, 2022
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March 30, 2022

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5 Calibrations for Hybrid-Remote Work

March 15, 2022
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March 15, 2022

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How Data Is Transforming the SMB Lending Landscape

March 2, 2022
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March 2, 2022

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A Guide to Card Transaction Data

February 16, 2022
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February 16, 2022

Enigma LogotypeA silhouette of the Statue of Liberty and iconic New York City bridges appears against a bright blue background, with a rising trend line across the top
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Did NYC Bounce Back in 2021? Manhattan vs. Brooklyn

February 3, 2022
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February 3, 2022

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Retreat Recap: Technical Teams Convene in Savannah

January 26, 2022
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January 26, 2022

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Meet Prime

January 12, 2022
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January 12, 2022

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Q&A: Paige Graham of Paige’s Candle Co.

November 30, 2021
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November 30, 2021

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Rise of the “Pandemic Entrepreneur”

November 17, 2021
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November 17, 2021

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3 Tips for Adding Validation into Your Data Science Workflow

October 15, 2021
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October 15, 2021

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Let's Try Again: Making Retries Work With Cloud Services

October 12, 2021
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October 12, 2021

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Enigma Haus - A New Look at the Future of Remote Working Collaboration

September 7, 2021
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September 7, 2021

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How to Identify a Future Unicorn (Before Your Competitors)

August 12, 2021
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August 12, 2021

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4 Insights About Small Business Performance During the Pandemic

August 3, 2021
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August 3, 2021

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The Future of Work

March 23, 2021
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March 23, 2021

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Comparing SMB Health Across 50 U.S. Cities

March 18, 2021
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March 18, 2021

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Finding Early Warning Signs of Business Bankruptcy

March 5, 2021
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March 5, 2021

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Which Lenders Have the Highest Performing “PPP Portfolios”?

February 5, 2021
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February 5, 2021

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Introducing Merchant Transaction Signals

February 1, 2021
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February 1, 2021

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How to Enrich a List of Businesses With Enigma’s Batch Upload

September 8, 2020
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September 8, 2020

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50% of Small Business Lenders Don’t Think This Recession Will End By August 2021

August 26, 2020
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August 26, 2020

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How Data Decay Can Spoil Your Small Business Database

August 17, 2020
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August 17, 2020

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How to Find New Small Business Credit Risk Signals

August 5, 2020
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August 5, 2020

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Over $1B in PPP Loans Went to Now-Closed Businesses

July 30, 2020
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July 30, 2020

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What is an Industry Classification Code?

July 29, 2020
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July 29, 2020

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Team Spotlight: Applied Technologies at Enigma

July 22, 2020
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July 22, 2020

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Introducing Business Closures Data

July 15, 2020
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July 15, 2020

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Enigma Shipping Imports data reveals a 12% drop in imports in 2020

July 13, 2020
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July 13, 2020

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Industry Data Is Essential and Yet It’s Often Inaccurate. Here’s Why.

June 9, 2020
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June 9, 2020

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The State of Small Business Lending: June 2020 Industry Poll

June 5, 2020
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June 5, 2020

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Announcing Enigma’s SOC 2 Certification

May 29, 2020
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May 29, 2020

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How Enigma Develops Small Business Data

May 21, 2020
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May 21, 2020

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Findigs & Enigma KYB: Building Trust and Streamlining the Rental Experience for Property Managers and Renters

March 26, 2025

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How Curia Leverages Enigma to Drive Smarter Real Estate Decisions

March 13, 2025

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Increasing Inbound Lead Efficiency At Scale with Enigma Revenue Data

September 17, 2024

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Minimizing Risk During Onboarding with Enigma

September 17, 2024

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Enigma KYB helps financial institutions increase instant Secretary of State registration fill rates by 50%

October 3, 2023

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Increase Credit Lines Safely

October 3, 2023

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Maximizing Outbound Campaigns

July 1, 2023

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Improving Audience Targeting

July 1, 2023

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Discovering $8.9M in Revenue with Smarter Prospect Lists

July 1, 2023

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Boosting Marketing Effectiveness

July 1, 2023

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Maximizing Relationship Manager Effectiveness

January 1, 2023

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KYB Requirements

September 1, 2023

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3 Ways SMB Lenders Can Leverage Data-Driven Marketing

January 1, 2023

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3 Ways Payment Processors Can Use Data-Driven B2SMB Marketing

January 1, 2023

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3 Ways to Convert More SMBs with Data-Driven Marketing

January 1, 2023

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3 Ways Financial Institutions Can Use Data-Driven B2SMB Marketing

January 1, 2023

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A Guide to Optimizing Your KYB Process

September 29, 2023

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9 Insights (and Takeaways) for SMB Lenders in a Recession

January 1, 2023

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The Go-To-Market Guide to Better Prospecting with Credit Card Transaction Data

January 1, 2023

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Mitigating Risk with Credit Card Transaction Data 101

January 1, 2023

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Complete Table of SMB Data Providers

January 1, 2023

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Accurate, timely data about merchant risk

October 4, 2023

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Sales and Marketing SMB Data to Unlock Revenue Growth

July 1, 2023

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Enigma KYB and Credit Risk

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Enigma KYB for Payment Providers

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Enigma KYB High-Risk Classification

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Enigma Sales & Marketing for Payment Providers

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Enigma Underwriting Data for Payment Providers

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Quick Hit: The Payment Platforms Winning Over SMBs

July 1, 2023

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Navigating a Potential Recession

January 1, 2023

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Streamline, Comply, and Grow with Enigma KYB

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Get a Free Sample and Analysis by Industry

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State of the SMB Economy Report: Full Year 2021

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Data Catalog

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Benchmarking Report for Sanctions Leaders

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Leveraging Data to Unlock B2B Sales and Marketing Success

October 3, 2025

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Payments Innovation is Hot: What to Expect in 2024

December 18, 2024

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How Financial Institutions Can Navigate a Changing KYB Legislative Landscape

October 24, 2023

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How to Optimize Your KYB Process: Build In-House, Single Partner, or Waterfall

September 22, 2023

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Elevate Your SMB Programs with Enigma Sales & Marketing

June 12, 2023

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How Data Powers Better Credit Risk Decisioning

April 20, 2023

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How Alternative Data is Transforming Small Business Financing

February 27, 2023

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Fireside Chat: Financial Institution Marketing & Data for Volatile Times

February 6, 2023