American small businesses are reportedly taking some extreme actions to survive tariffs on China-made goods. As The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported Sunday (May 11), these measures range from business owners cashing in money market funds to companies cutting their staff by half. Many are...
In the evolving world of FinTech, where algorithm-driven underwriting and alternative data are becoming the norm, small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) are constantly seeking for new ways to access working capital. Increasingly, they are finding them. It couldn’t be happening at a better time. One...
The rise of embedded payments is helping to change the business models of legal and financial services companies, accounting firms, nonprofits and logistics operators, to name just a few verticals. For the payments processors serving those firms — and partnering with independent software vendors (ISVs)...
Business financial platform Tide now offers its credit product, Credit Flex, to all its members in the United Kingdom. Tide expanded the availability of Credit Flex after seeing the success of a pilot launched in 2023, in which it made the credit product available to...
Small- to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) can be squeezed from a new direction each day. Some of those squeezes are starting to hurt, particularly the U.S. tariffs on foreign trade. As tariff regimes proliferate from Washington to Brussels to Beijing, SMBs are being forced to make...
Across boardrooms and tech hubs alike, digital innovation, shifting global trade policies, and the relentless drive of small businesses are colliding, creating new imperatives for CFOs and treasurers alike. It wasn’t long ago that corporate finance and treasury departments operated in parallel universes. Today, those...
Businesses said in April that they expect their unit costs to increase by 2.8% over the next year, a figure that is 0.3 percentage points higher than it was in March. These year-ahead unit cost expectations are lower than the peak of 3.8% seen in...
The tariffs were on, then they were paused, and at the moment, the United States trade war is focused on China. Although some business owners are girding for a recession, any such scenario may be relatively shallow, as the Federal Reserve can cut rates from...
If small businesses are the lifeblood of the economy, they may be feeling a bit anemic, at least when it comes to their finances. There’s not enough cash in the coffers, and the avenues through which capital can be replenished are increasingly hard to navigate....