- Wednesday 1st May - 11:12 am
Payments are the lifeblood of any business, but for small businesses, they are particularly crucial.
And with the news that, in the last 12 months, Main Street businesses have operated with ...
- Tuesday 30th April - 3:43 pm
Most small to mid-sized businesses (SMBs) located up and down Main Street, USA, are doing just fine, thank you very much.
In fact, according to PYMNTS Intelligence data, business growth and ...
- Tuesday 30th April - 12:48 pm
Airwallex and BILL partnered to help BILL customers make faster international payments.
With this collaboration, BILL’s financial operations platform for small– to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) will add the local transfer capabilities of Airwallex’s global payments ...
- Tuesday 30th April - 11:50 am
There are nearly as many ways to pay and be paid as there are types of small businesses.
But there’s one common thread connecting both Main Street businesses and the payment ...
- Tuesday 30th April - 10:59 am
Eight in 10 small- to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) get paid via ad hoc payments for the goods and services they provide to larger organizations.
The PYMNTS Intelligence’s study “How Instant Ad ...
- Monday 29th April - 12:17 pm
Small businesses with big ambitions are turning to artificial intelligence (AI) to drive growth.
That’s because, with 2024’s National Small Business Week already on day two, the ways in which embracing next-generation ...
- Monday 29th April - 4:03 am
Moving a business online can be rewarding as enterprises reach broader audiences, sometimes global in scope, and expand their revenue opportunities with online payments.
But challenges persist, whether it’s a small ...
- Friday 26th April - 5:19 pm
Despite the moniker attached to their segment, small businesses loom large in the American economy.
And with the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) celebrating National Small Business Week starting Sunday (April 28), ...
- Thursday 25th April - 5:32 pm
As consumers have grown to expect seamless digital convenience, many are finding that smaller merchants fall short of their expectations, PYMNTS Intelligence reveals.
By the Numbers
The “2024 Global Digital Shopping Index: ...
- Thursday 25th April - 3:13 pm
Web provider GoDaddy has introduced a smaller point-of-sale (POS) tool for small businesses.
Smart Terminal Flex, announced Thursday (April 25) is designed to fit inside an apron pocket while still helping businesses operate ...
- Thursday 25th April - 11:23 am
FreshBooks will add a payment solution with the latest Stripe Connect features to its cloud-based accounting software for small businesses and accountants.
The new FreshBooks Payments will be available this summer, enabling business owners to accept ...
- Thursday 25th April - 4:03 am
Small to mid-sized businesses (SMBs) in the healthcare provider segment now use real-time payments more widely than other payment rails. PYMNTS Intelligence finds that in the last year, 83% of ...
- Wednesday 24th April - 1:06 pm
Card issuing platform Marqeta has launched a partnership with U.K.-based, entrepreneur-focused digital bank OakNorth.
The collaboration will see Marqeta offer a commercial card for OakNorth’s business banking clients, with the Marqeta platform giving these customers a ...
- Wednesday 24th April - 9:00 am
Small businesses don’t want embracing modern technology to be a big, technical lift.
After all, these Main Street-style companies are increasingly busy building out their growth plans and managing a laundry ...
- Wednesday 24th April - 6:56 am
Small-business-focused payments/card solutions company myPOS has named Mario Shiliashki as its new CEO.
Shiliashki, the company announced Wednesday (April 24) in a news release provided to PYMNTS, “brings a global view ...
- Tuesday 23rd April - 10:55 pm
Online lender Enova International reported growing lending volume and solid credit performance for the first quarter.
During the quarter ended March 31, Enova’s combined loans and finance receivables increased 23% year over year, ...
- Tuesday 23rd April - 7:00 am
Microsoft has introduced its smallest artificial intelligence (AI) model, aimed at businesses with limited resources.
The company’s Phi-3-mini can perform tasks like content creation for social media while using less data, ...
- Tuesday 23rd April - 4:00 am
Financial institutions have a unique opportunity to bolster the resilience of small businesses by providing tailored financial tools and support, NCR Voyix Chief Product Officer, Digital Banking Doug Brown says ...
- Monday 22nd April - 6:42 pm
The use of ad hoc payments by large enterprises to pay small to mid-sized businesses (SMBs) and individuals is on the rise — and exclusive data from PYMNTS Intelligence suggests ...
- Monday 22nd April - 4:56 pm
Loan origination platform Decipher Credit has teamed up with small business financial data provider Validis.
The partnership will allow commercial lenders to extract financial and accounts receivable data in real-time, letting small- to ...
- Friday 19th April - 5:35 pm
The B2B landscape is on the cusp of the next era in payments innovation.
As PYMNTS readers already know, this new and exciting era is being driven by an ongoing digital ...
- Friday 19th April - 5:25 pm
ShipBob is reportedly planning to launch its initial public offering (IPO) as soon as late 2024.
The listing could value the eCommerce fulfillment service provider at about $4 billion, Bloomberg reported ...
- Friday 19th April - 4:02 am
Digitization is increasingly revolutionizing the B2B landscape with streamlined procurement processes, and even better payments workflows.
Don’t believe it? Look no further than the U.S. government, the world’s single largest buyer, ...
- Thursday 18th April - 10:21 am
Digital payments platform WorldFirst has debuted a solution to help small businesses speed cross-border payments.
WorldTrade, announced Thursday (April 18), is aimed at small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) that procure products from suppliers based in ...
- Thursday 18th April - 4:02 am
Nonrecurring or ad hoc payments remain a significant part of the monthly revenues of small to mid-sized businesses (SMBs). One way that SMBs streamline the accounts receivable (AR) process is ...
- Thursday 18th April - 4:01 am
An unavoidable truth in business is that it frequently takes money to make money.
And in today’s world, where small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) often find themselves struggling to secure the ...
- Thursday 18th April - 4:00 am
Business need to fight fraud with data, says Bryan Lewis, CEO of Intellicheck. He breaks it down in the new PYMNTS eBook, “The Implications of Uncertainty.”
Data breaches and mail theft have resulted ...
- Wednesday 17th April - 10:19 am
Flatpay has raised 45 million euros (about $48 million) in a Series B funding round to expand its offering of point-of-sale (POS) systems and payment solutions designed for small and ...
- Tuesday 16th April - 4:35 pm
Finmid has emerged from stealth and announced it has raised 35 million euros (about $37 million) to expand its embedded financing solution to businesses across Europe.
The company’s solution enables B2B ...
- Tuesday 16th April - 4:14 pm
Lendica and EBizCharge have partnered to launch an embedded business credit solution for small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) in the United States.
This collaboration brings together Lendica’s embedded artificial intelligence (AI) ...
- Tuesday 16th April - 11:16 am
Main Street businesses represent the backbone of both the American economy and their local communities.
And with the news on Tuesday (April 16) that Rapid Finance has teamed up with Galileo Financial Technologies on ...
- Tuesday 16th April - 8:00 am
Rapid Finance has teamed up with Galileo Financial Technologies on a small business financing solution.
This collaboration has created Rapid Finance’s Rapid Access Mastercard program, which is managed by Galileo and sponsored by Galileo’s ...
- Monday 15th April - 4:19 pm
Satago and mmob have partnered to make it easier for lenders and corporates to add embedded finance capabilities.
This partnership will enable these businesses to use the integration capabilities of mmob, ...
- Thursday 11th April - 9:00 pm
There’s no business like a B2B business.
And successful business-to-business (B2B) strategies — and the companies deploying them — are characterized by agility, innovation, and a focus on delivering value to ...
- Thursday 11th April - 5:05 pm
As small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) on Main Street, USA increasingly make their offerings available online, many are looking to digital channels to expand to new areas, PYMNTS Intelligence findings ...
- Thursday 11th April - 12:59 pm
Mimo raised 15.5 million pounds (about $19.4 million) to launch its financial management platform for small- to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) and accountants.
The platform helps these businesses simplify global payments, cash flow ...
- Wednesday 10th April - 6:30 pm
Nav has added a new “credit health experience” to its financial health platform for small businesses.
The new Nav Credit Health helps small business owners understand their business and personal credit, learn ...
- Wednesday 10th April - 2:26 pm
In the recently-released “2024 Global Digital Shopping Index: SMB Edition,” PYMNTS Intelligence found most consumers today expect digital innovations when they shop. This expectation in practice often translates into a preference ...
- Tuesday 9th April - 2:45 pm
Behind every business is a group of individual employees. And, in most cases — and for most firms — those individuals use their work, or even personal, email accounts to ...
- Tuesday 9th April - 11:14 am
Inflation is top of mind for the small businesses that power Main Street and the U.S. economy at large.
Small business optimism hit its lowest level in more than a decade, ...
- Monday 8th April - 3:23 pm
From time to time, most small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) find themselves having to borrow money to meet short-term needs or unexpected expenses. But as PYMNTS Intelligence recently reported, many ...
- Monday 8th April - 1:53 pm
The Maryland Online Data Privacy Act of 2024, a proposed bill set to impact data collection and online privacy, successfully passed both the Senate and House of Delegates and now awaits ...
- Thursday 4th April - 4:47 pm
Small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) and their owners are the backbone of local economies worldwide. And they haven’t had it easy, not recently. That’s because they have to big needs: ...
- Thursday 4th April - 3:30 pm
Many small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) adhere to lean business practices where decisions to borrow money must be weighed against an array of factors including objectives, revenue levels, cash flow ...
- Thursday 4th April - 3:28 pm
The Clearing House’s RTP® Network has seen growth in both transaction volume and value in 19 out of the last 20 quarters, dating back to 2019.
Both metrics are growing 15% per quarter, ...