- Friday 26th July - 7:49 pm
![Cuba Bans Small Business From Using US Bank Accounts](https://www.pymnts.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Cuba-SMBs-banking.jpg?w=160&h=113&crop=1)
Cuba has reportedly banned its small businesses from using U.S. bank accounts, just weeks after the Biden administration allowed Cubans to use the banking system.
Havana’s decision comes at a time ...
- Friday 26th July - 5:17 pm
![3 Big Ideas From the PYMNTS Visa SMBTV Series](https://www.pymnts.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/AI-eCommerce.png?w=160&h=113&crop=1)
In the digital marketplace, the effortless nature of eCommerce transactions masks a complex network of systems designed to ensure a smooth customer experience. While consumers enjoy a seamless process — ...
- Friday 26th July - 3:29 pm
![Sage Enhances Payment Processing for SMBs With Stripe Integration](https://www.pymnts.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Stripe-payments-processor.jpg?w=160&h=113&crop=1)
Sage and Stripe have partnered to help improve cashflow management and payment processing for small- to medium-sized businesses (SMBs).
Stripe’s financial infrastructure platform for businesses will be integrated into Sage’s solutions for SMBs, ...
- Friday 26th July - 4:00 am
![Instant Payments Book a Long Stay With Independent Hotels](https://www.pymnts.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/hospitality-smbs-real-time-payments.jpg?w=160&h=113&crop=1)
Instant payments have become a mainstay for small to mid-sized businesses (SMBs) in the hospitality sector.
For example, more hospitality SMBs used instant PayPal to send payments than used any traditional ...
- Thursday 25th July - 2:29 pm
![Float and Airwallex Partner on Bill Pay for Canadian Companies](https://www.pymnts.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Airwallex.jpg?w=160&h=113&crop=1)
Float, which offers a business finance platform for Canadian companies, has chosen Airwallex to power its new bill pay product.
The new product enables fast and cost-efficient bill payments for both ...
- Thursday 25th July - 4:00 am
![Embedded Lending Finds Traction With Consumers and SMBs](https://www.pymnts.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/embedded-lending-microbusinesses-united-states.jpg?w=160&h=113&crop=1)
Embedded lending promises users convenient, streamlined access to financing for specific expenses from within merchant, business and other platforms.
PYMNTS Intelligence finds that embedded lending isn’t fully living up to the ...
- Wednesday 24th July - 10:56 am
![Fiserv: Clover Revenues Are Up 29% in 2024](https://www.pymnts.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Clover-Fiserv.jpg?w=160&h=113&crop=1)
Fiserv’s momentum with its Clover point of sale technologies continues to help underpin revenue growth, while management charted a path for its partnership with Apple, enabling new Apple Pay functionalities.
CEO ...
- Tuesday 23rd July - 2:40 pm
![Visa and Toqio Partner on Commercial Card Solutions](https://www.pymnts.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Visa-Toqio-b2b-payments.jpg?w=160&h=113&crop=1)
Toqio and Visa have partnered to provide Visa commercial cards to businesses that don’t offer financial services.
With these solutions, Toqio’s corporate clients will be able to access and issue Visa commercial cards ...
- Tuesday 23rd July - 1:48 pm
![Finastra and CredAble Partner on Supply Chain Finance for Banks](https://www.pymnts.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Finastra.jpg?w=160&h=113&crop=1)
Finastra and CredAble have partnered to enable banks to offer their corporate clients supply chain finance solutions.
In this collaboration, CredAble’s supply chain finance platform has been integrated with the Finastra ...
- Tuesday 23rd July - 12:48 pm
![Earnings Season Shows Companies Still Spending on Corporate Cards](https://www.pymnts.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/business-cards.jpg?w=160&h=113&crop=1)
As banks weighed in this month with their earnings reports, Wall Street has focused on earnings per share, investment banking revenues and the state of capital buffers and credit reserves.
Here ...
- Monday 22nd July - 1:40 pm
![i2c and Beyon Money Launch Corporate Card Partnership](https://www.pymnts.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/corporate-card.jpg?w=160&h=113&crop=1)
Digital banking/payments firm i2c has launched a partnership with Beyon Money Business.
The collaboration, announced Monday (July 22), will see the firms launch a corporate expense card program for the small to midsize enterprise (SME) sector, ...
- Thursday 18th July - 7:06 pm
![White House Ramps Up Small Business Working Capital Offerings](https://www.pymnts.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/small-business-working-capital.jpg?w=160&h=113&crop=1)
When it comes to the business landscape, more money commonly equals, or creates, more opportunities.
And with the news that the Small Business Administration (SBA) has started soliciting insights on a new pilot ...
- Thursday 18th July - 4:41 pm
![Small Business-Focused FinTech Wamo Raises $5 Million](https://www.pymnts.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/small-business-FinTech-Wamo.png?w=160&h=113&crop=1)
London-based FinTech wamo has raised $5 million to develop small to medium-sized business (SMB)-focused banking solutions.
In addition to the growth investment, CEO and founder Yanki Onen said on the company blog Thursday (July 18), wamo has ...
- Thursday 18th July - 12:39 pm
![This Week in B2B: Embedded Payments, Digital Tooling, Small-Business Success](https://www.pymnts.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/b2b-payments-business-payments-commerical-payments.png?w=160&h=113&crop=1)
Innovation and competition are constantly reshaping the B2B landscape.
The pace of transformation has financial institutions (FIs) and corporations increasingly seeking ways to bring their B2B payments processes up to date ...
- Wednesday 17th July - 10:20 pm
![Arvo Tech Raises $2.5 Million to Expand Tax Credit Platform](https://www.pymnts.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Arvo-Tech-small-business.jpg?w=160&h=113&crop=1)
Arvo Tech has raised $2.5 million in a Series A funding round to deliver its tax strategy solution to more small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs).,
The company will use the new ...
- Wednesday 17th July - 6:06 pm
![Simply Business Expands Workers’ Compensation Offering With Employers Partnership](https://www.pymnts.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Employers-Simply-Business.jpg?w=160&h=113&crop=1)
Simply Business has expanded its workers’ compensation insurance offering for small businesses by partnering with workers’ compensation provider Employers.
With this expansion of its offering, Simply Business can digitally quote and ...
- Tuesday 16th July - 7:15 pm
![9Spokes Launches Cashflow Product for Financial Institutions Serving SMBs](https://www.pymnts.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/9Spokes-SMBs-spend-management.jpg?w=160&h=113&crop=1)
Global data platform 9Spokes has launched a new product designed to give small- medium-sized businesses (SMBs) automated, predictive cashflow management and forecasting capabilities.
The new Cashflow product is designed for integration within ...
- Tuesday 16th July - 3:43 pm
![Docyt Adds ‘AI Bookkeeper’ to Small Business Financial Management Platform](https://www.pymnts.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Docyt-AI-bookkeeper.jpg?w=160&h=113&crop=1)
Docyt has added an “AI bookkeeper” called GARY to its digital back-office solutions for small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs).
GARY is built on the Docyt AI software-as-a-service (SaaS) financial management platform ...
- Tuesday 16th July - 12:26 pm
![Clearco and Boundless Team to Expand Working Capital for eCommerce Merchants](https://www.pymnts.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/SMB-working-capital.jpg?w=160&h=113&crop=1)
eCommerce invoice funding firm Clearco has teamed with small-business-focused capital marketplace Boundless.
The partnership, announced Tuesday (July 16), is designed to provide working capital to eCommerce brands, with Clearco offering businesses ...
- Tuesday 16th July - 12:07 pm
![FIS Launches Small Business Lending Solution for Banks](https://www.pymnts.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/FIS.jpg?w=160&h=113&crop=1)
FIS launched a solution designed to help banks source, underwrite and fund loans to small- to medium-sized businesses (SMBs).
The new SMB Digital Lending solution was created in partnership with small ...
- Monday 15th July - 2:26 pm
![Goldman’s Card Balances Up 11% as Management Is ‘Pleased’ With Credit Performance](https://www.pymnts.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Goldmand-Sachs-earnings.jpg?w=160&h=113&crop=1)
Goldman Sachs’ GreenSky sale is in the rearview mirror and its pivot from Main Street banking is ongoing.
Its latest earnings results, released Monday (July 15), show that “substantially all” of the ...
- Monday 15th July - 12:57 pm
![Adaptive Raises $19 Million to Scale Construction Industry Financial Platform](https://www.pymnts.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/construction.jpg?w=160&h=113&crop=1)
Adaptive raised $19 million in a Series A funding round to scale its artificial intelligence-powered financial platform for businesses in the construction industry.
The platform was launched in February 2023 and ...
- Thursday 11th July - 4:03 am
![New Report Highlights Impact of Embedded Lending Options on Small Business Banking Preferences](https://www.pymnts.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/SMB-small-businesses-loans.jpg?w=160&h=113&crop=1)
Embedded lending can help microbusinesses and small businesses grow and maintain smooth operations despite unstable cash flows.
However, PYMNTS Intelligence’s latest study finds that relatively few microbusinesses and small businesses currently ...
- Thursday 11th July - 4:01 am
![Markaaz CEO Says New Take on Data Helps Banks Close Small Business Identity Gap](https://www.pymnts.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Markaaz-small-business.jpg?w=160&h=113&crop=1)
How do you really know a business?
The credit score can be misleading, especially for a small business that has weathered the pandemic. A profit and loss statement shows the cold ...
- Thursday 11th July - 4:00 am
![Sovos CEO Says Government Tax Compliance Mandates Push CFOs to Modernize](https://www.pymnts.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Sovos-tax-compliance.jpg?w=160&h=113&crop=1)
Governments around the world are using mandates to modernize and digitize all manner of activities, including how they collect taxes.
To get a sense of the task at hand and its ...
- Wednesday 10th July - 3:30 pm
![eBay Debuts Working Capital Solution for Sellers](https://www.pymnts.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/ebay.jpg?w=160&h=113&crop=1)
eBay teamed with embedded finance platform Liberis to offer sellers working capital.
Business Cash Advance is designed to provide eligible eBay sellers in the United States up to $1 million in ...
- Wednesday 10th July - 3:28 pm
![Embedded Finance Helps Business Buyers Move Commerce Online](https://www.pymnts.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/SMBs-embedded-B2B.png?w=160&h=113&crop=1)
Better product data, better browsing, transparent pricing — and the ability to click through the whole process — these are the hallmarks of consumer-facing online commerce.
And, increasingly, the same streamlined ...
- Tuesday 9th July - 6:10 pm
![Marriott Launches Online Travel Booking Program for Small Businesses](https://www.pymnts.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Marriott-travel-SMBs.jpg?w=160&h=113&crop=1)
Marriott International has launched an online travel booking program designed for small- to medium-sized businesses (SMBs).
The new Business Access by Marriott Bonvoy combines a suite of online booking tools with benefits ...
- Tuesday 9th July - 9:05 am
![Small Business Optimism Creeps up but Inflation Concerns Persist](https://www.pymnts.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/small-business-optimism-inflation.png?w=160&h=113&crop=1)
Optimism among small business owners is climbing, though it’s hard to call them “optimistic.”
That’s according to the latest edition of the National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB) Small Business Optimism Index, released Tuesday ...
- Monday 8th July - 4:53 pm
![Japan Ditched Floppy Disks, but Can Businesses Ditch Paper Checks?](https://www.pymnts.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Paper-checks.jpg?w=160&h=113&crop=1)
Technological innovation moves fast, but sometimes businesses can move slowly. Or even not at all.
Take for example the news from Reuters that the Japanese government officially, and finally, decided last ...
- Monday 8th July - 4:17 pm
![British Business Bank Boost Government-Backed Loans to Small Businesses](https://www.pymnts.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/British-Business-Bank-SMBs-working-capital.jpg?w=160&h=113&crop=1)
The British Business Bank, the U.K. government’s economic development bank, has launched a new program designed to support access to finance for smaller U.K. businesses.
The Growth Guarantee Scheme, which replaces the Recovery ...
- Monday 8th July - 2:45 pm
![Niva Raises $3.3 Million for AI-Powered Business ID Solution](https://www.pymnts.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Niva-business-ID.png?w=160&h=113&crop=1)
Business identity platform Niva has launched after raising $3.3 million for its verification solution, according to a Monday (July 8) news release.
Verifying the identities of small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) by screening for ...
- Monday 8th July - 11:13 am
![Embedded Lending Puts SMBs at Center of Financial Services Landscape](https://www.pymnts.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/embedded-lending.png?w=160&h=113&crop=1)
The growing importance of seamless, customer-centric financial solutions has transformed today’s digital economy.
And innovations like embedded lending have revolutionized the financial services ecosystem by increasingly placing small and medium-sized businesses ...
- Friday 5th July - 2:20 pm
![Court Ruling: PayPal Australia Unfair to Small Merchants](https://www.pymnts.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/PayPal.jpg?w=160&h=113&crop=1)
Australia’s federal court has ruled that a term in PayPal’s contract for local small businesses is unfair.
The reason, the court ruled Friday (July 5) is because the contract terms allowed ...
- Wednesday 3rd July - 2:34 pm
![AI Reshapes Banking: Promises and Pitfalls as Industry Grapples With Transformation](https://www.pymnts.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/banks.jpg?w=160&h=113&crop=1)
As artificial intelligence revolutionizes the banking sector, industry leaders from UBS and McKinsey highlighted the potential and challenges facing financial institutions.
Concerns range from return on tech investments to the future ...
- Monday 1st July - 5:13 pm
![State Bank of India Launches Web-Based Invoice Financing Solution](https://www.pymnts.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/State-Bank-of-India.jpg?w=160&h=113&crop=1)
The State Bank of India reportedly launched a web-based invoice financing solution for microbusinesses and small- to medium-sized businesses (SMBs).
The new MSME Sahaj solution allows the bank’s customers to access ...
- Friday 28th June - 12:31 pm
![ChatGPT Finds Its Soul Mate: Meet CriticGPT](https://www.pymnts.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/chatgpt-2.jpg?w=160&h=113&crop=1)
In Silicon Valley, a new kind of proofreader is hard at work.
It doesn’t wield a red pen or squint at comma splices. Instead, this digital detective, born from the same ...
- Friday 28th June - 4:00 am
![New Episode: GenAI Helps Small Business Play Big on a Global Stage](https://www.pymnts.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/SMBs-AI-customer-relationships.jpg?w=160&h=113&crop=1)
What’s the most precious resource for a small business? Arguably, there are three: capital, customers and time.
Artificial intelligence is emerging as a technology that can act as a triple threat, ...
- Wednesday 26th June - 4:22 pm
![Rainforest Raises $20 Million to Expand Embedded Payments Offering](https://www.pymnts.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Rainforest-embedded-payments.png?w=160&h=113&crop=1)
Payments provider Rainforest has raised $20 million to expand its embedded payments offering.
The Atlanta-based company said it will use funds from the Series A round, led by Matrix Partners, to advance its ...
- Wednesday 26th June - 2:48 pm
![Airwallex and QuickBooks to Improve Multicurrency Reporting](https://www.pymnts.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Airwallex.jpg?w=160&h=113&crop=1)
Payments platform Airwallex integrated with financial software provider QuickBooks.
The QuickBooks Bank Feed integration lets Airwallex’s customers connect with Quickbooks’ accounting software and sync their Airwallex transactions across supported currencies into ...
- Tuesday 25th June - 12:58 pm
![Bluevine and Mastercard Partner on Small Business Credit Card](https://www.pymnts.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Bluevine.png?w=160&h=113&crop=1)
Bluevine launched a Mastercard-powered small business credit card that provides 1.5% cash back on all business purchases, merchant discounts and a range of business tools.
The Bluevine Business Cashback Mastercard integrates ...
- Tuesday 25th June - 11:42 am
![What Small Businesses Need to Know About Fighting First-Party Fraud](https://www.pymnts.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/small-businesses-fraud.png?w=160&h=113&crop=1)
The opportunities have never been greater, and the challenges more challenging, for America’s small businesses.
And with the news that small and-medium-sized businesses (SMBs) could be facing up to a 40% ...
- Monday 24th June - 11:35 am
![Target to Include Shopify Merchants in Digital Marketplace, Physical Stores](https://www.pymnts.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/Target.jpg?w=160&h=113&crop=1)
Target will begin including select Shopify merchants on Target Plus, the retailer’s third-party digital marketplace.
In addition, in the months to come, Target will offer some of these merchants’ products in ...
- Friday 21st June - 11:55 am
![Traditional Banks Must Innovate Their B2B Solutions to Stay Competitive](https://www.pymnts.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/traditional-banks-B2B-solutions.png?w=160&h=113&crop=1)
Both the banking and business landscape are being reshaped by next-generation behavioral expectations.
In order to meet these emerging end-user expectations, which tend to center around convenience, security and digital innovation, ...
- Thursday 20th June - 3:27 pm
![Pipe Adopts Peach Infrastructure to Scale Embedded Capital Product](https://www.pymnts.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/SMBs-embedded-capital-working-capital-small-businesses.jpg?w=160&h=113&crop=1)
Pipe is now using Peach Finance’s infrastructure to power and scale its embedded capital product.
As a modern capital platform, Pipe selected Peach, a servicing technology platform, as a key infrastructure provider ...