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Tide Expands Availability of Credit Product to All UK Small Business Members
May 01, 2025

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...

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Survival or Surrender: Will Tariffs Force Small Businesses Off the Global Stage?
April 28, 2025

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...

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This Week in B2B: SMB Innovation, Trade Disruptions Shape New Digital Economy
April 24, 2025

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...

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Atlanta Fed: Small Firms Less Likely to Pass Through Cost Increases
April 23, 2025

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...

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Small Businesses Embrace Simplicity as Managing Cash Flow Becomes More Complex
April 17, 2025

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...

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Too Many Small Businesses Now Bet Tomorrow’s Survival on Today’s Sales
April 14, 2025

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....

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B2B FinTechs Target SMBs With Expanded Offerings
April 09, 2025

For years, B2B FinTechs have built their empires around serving enterprise clients spanning global banks, Fortune 500s and institutional investors. But today, a new customer segment is commanding their attention with growing urgency: small- to medium-sized businesses (SMBs).  The appeal? SMBs need the same sophistication...

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Tariffs Add to ‘Unprecedented’ Pressures Facing Small Businesses
April 06, 2025

American small businesses are weathering a storm brought on by leadership changes in Washington. As The New York Times (NYT) reported Sunday (April 6), these changes include stalled funding, job cuts at federal agencies, a crackdown on immigration and now, tariffs. Put together, it has...

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Priority Debuts Tool to Help Small Businesses Offer Health Insurance
March 27, 2025

Priority Technology Holdings has a new tool to help businesses with their health coverage. The payments and banking solutions provider launched its Ambient business for individual coverage health reimbursement arrangement (ICHRA) plan payments and administration, according to a Thursday (March 27) press release. ICHRAs are...