Artificial intelligence-powered insights, voice ordering, bitcoin payments and a mobile app for small businesses are among Square’s latest offerings for local businesses. Square announced these new products Wednesday (Oct. 8) during the company’s biannual Square Releases product launch event. New intelligence capabilities that have been...
First came tariffs. Now, the government shutdown is the latest headache facing small businesses. The shutdown is impacting businesses in several ways, while highlighting the number of private sector companies that rely on a federal bureaucracy, The Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday (Oct. 8). “That’s...
BILL says it has debuted a new way for small businesses to manage their money. The BILL Cash account, announced by the financial operations platform Ton hursday (Oct. 2), is an operating account designed to help small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) strengthen their cash positions....
Truist introduced a premium Visa card aimed at small business clients. The Truist Business Premium Visa Infinite card makes the lender the first “super-regional” bank to offer a Visa Business Infinite product, according to a Thursday (Oct. 2) news release. The card is designed for...
Main Street depends on the vitality of its smallest businesses. With the right mix of growth opportunities and the tools to seize them, micro-businesses can blossom into larger firms that employ more workers and provide the goods and services that sustain local economies. A PYMNTS...
Small– to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) face the ongoing challenge of how to compete on cost without compromising quality or compliance, particularly against today’s backdrop of global uncertainty. In 2025, merely mastering the fundamentals of procurement is no longer enough. Volatile trade policies, persistent supply chain...
Dubai-based FinTech startup Upfront secured $10 million in a pre-seed round to grow its “next-generation financial operating system” for small- to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. The company will use the new funding for product development and to...
Banks know real-time payments keep cash moving, yet they continue to tilt these services toward large enterprises. The March/April edition of the Real-Time Payments Tracker Series, “Small Businesses, Big Demand: The Case for SMB-Focused Real-Time Payments,” found that small- to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) are not...
The longer a small and medium-sized business (SMB) expects new U.S. tariffs to be in place, the greater the percentage of that cost they expect to pass along to consumers, according to a paper published Monday (Sept. 29) by the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston....