Small businesses run on instinct. Main Street entrepreneurs know their customers personally. They understand seasonal fluctuations without consulting dashboards; many can sense when sales are slowing, when inventory is piling up, or when cash flow is tightening just from being close to the business every...
The conventional logic has always been that small businesses had smaller needs than their enterprise peers. But with Google this week launching new enterprise-grade artificial intelligence (AI) tools designed for small- to medium-sized businesses (SMBs), a move that follows on the heels of Anthropic’s Claude...
Stripe and Lloyds Bank launched a partnership aimed at small businesses in the United Kingdom. The collaboration will see the lender use Stripe to power Lloyds Accept, a suite of payments tools designed to give small businesses access to the same payments infrastructure as the...
Fifth Third has introduced a small business banking experience that combines digital lending, faster payments and local banker support. The bank is rolling out the new Fifth Third for Business to more than 240,000 small business customers, it said in a Thursday (June 4) press release. Fifth Third for Business offers Early Pay that provides...
Watch more: Fireside Chat With Mastercard’s Mike Kresse As small to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) in the United States extend purchasing beyond domestic markets and assemble supply chains across several countries at once, the mechanics of moving money across borders are becoming part of procurement strategy...
Small businesses should think big when preparing for a sale. Like a big business, that is. Across the United States, Main Street is entering one of the largest ownership transitions in modern business history. Millions of small and medium-sized business (SMB) owners are approaching retirement...
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,...