Small businesses on Main Street have proven to be more resilient than many of their larger counterparts, according to the PYMNTS Intelligence report “Main Street Businesses Are Outperforming the US Economy.” In the last 12 months, Main Street businesses have been operating with the lowest risk of...
Increasingly, small- to mid-sized businesses (SMBs) operating in the healthcare field are using real-time payment technology to improve cash flow efficiency. Thirty-eight percent of the healthcare SMBs PYMNTS Intelligence surveyed for “Small Business Real-Time Payments Barometer: Healthcare Edition” said real-time payments were their most-used payment method, with instant bank...
A record-breaking number of new business applications were filed in the United States last year; 5.5 million, to be exact. While that’s a great sign for American entrepreneurship, the surge in new businesses may put traditional business lending solutions under a strain that they’re unprepared to manage. Businesses commonly need external financing both to invest...
Despite news about rising inflation and stalled interest rates, recent PYMNTS Intelligence data confirms that many of the small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) that dot Main Street USA are demonstrating real resiliency. According to the latest edition of our SMB Growth Monitor Report, “Main Street...
At a time when every financial decision counts, many small to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) can at least take some comfort knowing there are a wide variety of borrowing tools available if needed. Today’s entrepreneurs can choose from reward-earning credit cards; merchant loans; bank loans; buy...
Amazon’s B2B procurement store is rolling out new resources designed to help smaller entrepreneurs. It’s all part of Amazon Business’ third annual Small Business Month, the retail giant announced Wednesday (May 1) as it introduced an online resource center dubbed the “Small Business Success Studio.” The free service...
Chase introduced a series of payments-oriented tools aimed at small- to medium-sized businesses (SMBs). The new tools include offerings to help SMB owners electronically create and send invoices and gain better insight into customers, the banking giant said in a Wednesday (May 1) news release. “Today many small business owners have to manually create,...
Since April 2021, most Main Street small to mid-sized businesses (SMBs) in the U.S. have been experiencing significant growth. In fact — according to PYMNTS Intelligence’s latest SMB Growth Monitor Report, “Main Street Small Business Growth Exceeds GDP for First Time in Two Years — growth in 2023...
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 the lowest risk of closing since early 2020, the ways that these local merchants...
