U.S. Bank introduced an online education platform aimed at small business owners. The lender’s free Business Resources Central is designed to provide educational courses and other tools, and it is open to U.S. Bank clients and non-clients, plus small businesses that are suppliers to the...
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Software has already eaten much of the enterprise world, and now the digital revolution is coming for Main Street. Small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs), the heart and soul of commerce around the world, are ready and primed for it. That’s according to PYMNTS Intelligence data...
Small businesses run on big decisions—but when it comes to credit card usage, many are blending business and personal finance in ways that reveal shortcomings in today’s financial products. That’s one of the key discoveries in “SMB Growth Monitor: How Firms Use and Choose Credit...
For millions of smaller businesses across America, the ubiquitous credit card has become less of a standard payment tool and more of a financial lifeline. Staring daily at fluctuating revenue, tight cash flow and a banking system that can treat them as second-tier borrowers, small...
Point-of-sale system Clover launched a new integration with small business management platform Homebase. The integration embeds Homebase’s scheduling, time tracking and employee management capabilities into the Clover Web Dashboard, giving merchants a single platform to manage daily operations, according to a Monday (July 14) press...
The quest for profitable small business lending is often thwarted not by a lack of demand, but by a shortage of reliable data. The PYMNTS Intelligence report “Keeping Score: Why Data Quality Determines Lending Decisions for the Smallest Firms” revealed a challenge for financial institutions....
It’s summertime, and that means sun, friends, backyards and cold beverages. It also means summer sales and yard games aimed squarely at those backyard and park hangouts. Today’s eCommerce landscape is dominated by mass production and algorithmic marketing, but Matt Butler and Kelvin Sealy, co-founders...
Mastercard is expanding its small business platform with a new offer from Fiserv’s Clover. As part of this partnership, the company is offering the first 1,000 small- to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) who apply and qualify one of Clover’s point-of-sale/business management devices for one penny a...