Truist introduced a premium Visa card aimed at small business clients. The Truist Business Premium Visa Infinite card makes the lender the first “super-regional” bank to offer a Visa Business Infinite product, according to a Thursday (Oct. 2) news release. The card is designed for...
Main Street depends on the vitality of its smallest businesses. With the right mix of growth opportunities and the tools to seize them, micro-businesses can blossom into larger firms that employ more workers and provide the goods and services that sustain local economies. A PYMNTS...
Small– to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) face the ongoing challenge of how to compete on cost without compromising quality or compliance, particularly against today’s backdrop of global uncertainty. In 2025, merely mastering the fundamentals of procurement is no longer enough. Volatile trade policies, persistent supply chain...
Dubai-based FinTech startup Upfront secured $10 million in a pre-seed round to grow its “next-generation financial operating system” for small- to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. The company will use the new funding for product development and to...
Banks know real-time payments keep cash moving, yet they continue to tilt these services toward large enterprises. The March/April edition of the Real-Time Payments Tracker Series, “Small Businesses, Big Demand: The Case for SMB-Focused Real-Time Payments,” found that small- to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) are not...
The longer a small and medium-sized business (SMB) expects new U.S. tariffs to be in place, the greater the percentage of that cost they expect to pass along to consumers, according to a paper published Monday (Sept. 29) by the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston....
Tariffs are placing an increasing strain on small businesses in the United States. Many of these companies did not have the money or storage space to stockpile merchandise before new levies were put into place, The New York Times reported Monday (Sept. 29). These merchants...
Small business owners rarely lack grit, but today their biggest threat may be too much optimism. A record share of Main Street firms say they are sure they’ll be around two years from now, according to the PYMNTS Intelligence report “Main Street SMB Confidence Rises...
Small businesses have long depended on management software to keep the books balanced and payroll running. But in 2025, the stakes are different. A growing number of small to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) are prepared to switch software providers outright if their current systems fail to...