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Entryless Integrates With Sage Live To Help SMBs
October 06, 2016

Entryless, a cloud-based financial network that allows small and medium-sized businesses to react more quickly to the needs of their buyers and suppliers, announced an integration with accountancy platform Sage Live. This integration will improve companies’ ability to pay bills and complete accounts seamlessly. In...

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For Small Businesses, Borrowing’s Up, But So Too Are Delinquencies
October 04, 2016

In the United States, borrowing by small businesses rose in August, and the percentage of firms calculated as having delinquencies on existing loans was up, too, according to data disclosed on Tuesday (Oct. 4). As reported by the Thomson/Reuters PayNet Small Business Lending Index, the latest read...

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Finding Falafel Success On Main Street
September 19, 2016

The rumors of Main Street's demise may be greatly exaggerated. The hot-off-the-presses Q3 PYMNTS Store Front Business Index™ indicates that store front businesses are proving doomsdayers wrong, growing by nearly 2 percent in Q2 2016 and outpacing GDP. You can find more key takeaways from the research, along...

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Are Main Street Merchants Crushing It?
September 16, 2016

The rumors of Main Street's demise may be greatly exaggerated. The hot-off-the-presses Q3 PYMNTS Store Front Business Index™ indicates that store front businesses are proving doomsdayers wrong, growing by nearly 2 percent in Q2 2016 and outpacing GDP. You can find more key takeaways from the research, along...

PYMNTS Daily Data Dive: SMEs Hesitating To Hire
September 01, 2016

The latest employment news among small businesses is a mixed bag of good and bad indicators. Payroll firm ADP and SME lender Biz2Credit find that hiring in August is up from July, particularly for the health, retail and technology sectors. Other good news is that SME...

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US Entrepreneurship Appetite Growing
June 08, 2016

Entrepreneurship in the United States gained ground in 2015, which marked an end to a decline that had stretched out over five years. Those are among the key takeaways from a report by the Kauffman Foundation. In a survey conducted by the research firm and...

Facebook’s New Insight On How SMBs Use Mobile
April 28, 2016

During Facebook’s Q1 earnings call with analysts, the executive team dug into one area of its business that it’s been paying more attention to in the past year: SMBs. Specifically, how to foster SMBs into its (free) Pages for businesses. Of course, Facebook has business intentions for...

JPMorgan Business Report: Positive On Growth, Weary Of Economy
April 12, 2016

As demonstrated in the PYMNTS Store Front Business Index, Store Front businesses are the heartbeat of the local economy. The Index assembles data on each and every one of these businesses across the U.S. and measures their vitality every single quarter; think of it as your...

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First Data’s SMB-Friendly Bank Deal
March 25, 2016

First Data has secured an agreement with the largest bank in Tennessee to support small businesses. As part of its deal with First Tennessee Bank, which has roughly 200 retail and commercial banking locations, First Data will be able to offer those clients its products,...