Finance & Acquisitions

The cannabis industry’s biggest financial challenge isn’t banking access alone. It’s fragmentation. Operators juggle separate solutions for payroll, lending, insurance, and payments, leading to repetitive work, high fees, and compliance headaches. A unified, purpose-built financial infrastructure could eliminate duplicative workflows, automate compliance, improve access to capital, and give operators room to grow. Here’s how that vision could look.

SEATTLE - Jones Soda Co., a craft beverage company, sold its cannabis beverage business, including all related cannabis-specific assets under the Mary Jones brand, to MJ...

EDMONTON, Canada – Aurora Cannabis Inc. (NASDAQ: ACB) issued a formal denial Wednesday regarding widely circulated reports claiming the company planned to acquire New...

Cannabis companies are grappling with soaring insurance costs in 2025, facing rising premiums, reduced availability, and strict underwriting. Many operators find themselves without adequate protection, as insurers grow increasingly cautious due to regulatory complexities and high-risk perceptions.

The past few years have been nothing short of transformational for the cannabis industry. But from potential rescheduling to congressional inaction and several states’...

With limited access to banking, burdensome tax policies, capital scarcity, and payment terms that don’t always fit the needs of operators, the cannabis industry...

Nearly every election over the past decade has changed the landscape for the cannabis industry, and 2024’s was no exception. Whether a second Trump...

Donald Trump’s reelection has left the cannabis industry facing familiar questions about its future under a federal landscape that repeatedly has dangled reform without...

Only a few years ago, financial services were a rare luxury for cannabis companies in the United States. Few were able to secure even...

When it first hit my desk several years ago, the idea of “cannabis banking” was much different from what the industry knows today. At...