For many small businesses, the move away from cash will depend less on digital enthusiasm than on whether new payment tools can feel as simple, immediate and reliable as cash itself. That is the larger story inside “Ready for Change: Why Nearly Half of SMBs Want...
Scandinavian Airline Systems (SAS) has launched a credit card for the region’s small businesses. The new card, announced Wednesday (May 27), is designed to bring together expense management, payment functionality and travel benefits. “Companies tell us they want less administration, clearer travel benefits and a...
Retail has evolved from a brick-and-mortar storefront to an anywhere, anytime experience. PYMNTS Intelligence‘s “2025 Global Digital Shopping Index” found that 48% consumers across the globe use their smartphones for purchases. Approximately 60% of consumers browse merchant websites on their phones multiple times per week,...
A collaboration between PYMNTS Intelligence and Mastercard, “The Cross-Border Opportunity: What Global Sourcing by US SMBs Means for Payment Providers” examines how U.S. small- to medium-sized businesses are becoming more global in the way they buy goods, materials and supplies. The report finds that 57% of...
Amazon Business has launched a credit card in tandem with Mastercard and U.S. Bank. The Prime Business Card and Amazon Business Card, announced Wednesday (May 13), are issued by U.S. Bank on the Mastercard network, with a focus on small business customers. “U.S. Bank has...
Four years after the pandemic pushed millions of small businesses into emergency digital adoption, a new reality is taking shape across Main Street. The businesses that successfully digitized are increasingly pulling away from those that did not. Findings in the May 2026 Small Business Week...
Mastercard has launched a program designed to help small- to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region navigate the trade disruptions, rising energy and logistics costs, and other strains caused by the current regional conflict. Dubbed “Built Small. Moving Strong.,”...
Watch more: Live Roundtable With Synchrony, Home Zone Furniture, Eagle Pipe & Mechanical Here’s a truth every small business owner has felt in the pit of their stomach. The sale doesn’t die at checkout. It dies three minutes earlier, when the customer sees the price...
American Express is introducing new artificial intelligence (AI) training and education programs for small businesses. The programs, announced Wednesday (May 6) in partnership with nonprofits Generation and Scholarship America, are designed to help small businesses embed “practical” AI skills into their day-to-day operations. “AI can be a powerful tool for small...