February 05, 2021
Jobs Data: Surge In Temp Workers Could Herald New SMB...
A recovery is in sight – in the economy overall, and in jobs – but on the other side of the pandemic, the workforce may look quite different. To that...
February 05, 2021
Helping SMBs Fill In The Payments Piece Of The Digital-First...
Millions of eyes will be on the Super Bowl kickoff Sunday. And there may be a kickoff of a different sort that same day, where small businesses, wrestling with the...
February 01, 2021
Face-To-Face V.2021: What Zoom Teaches Us About The Connected Economy
An article published in the Harvard Business Review in August of 2009 posed a question that many airline and travel industry CEOs are pondering 11 years later: Will videoconferencing kill...
January 25, 2021
Visa, Mastercard, Amex Earnings To Shed Light On Contactless, Debit...
To get a glimpse of the state of spending, one needs only to look at the card networks, the gross dollar volumes and cross-border activity to get a sense of...
January 14, 2021
Britain’s Finest Restaurants Are Making Takeout A Way Of Life
As Britain hunkers down into yet another lockdown, its finest restaurants are adapting to takeout and delivery as a way of life. The Wall Street Journal reports that several of...
January 12, 2021
Birmingham Bank Launches From Bira Bank To Serve SMBs
Birmingham Bank is launching in the U.K. to help serve small- to medium-sized businesses (SMBs), according to a report from BDaily. The bank is being launched following the acquisition of...
January 12, 2021
Starbucks Launches $100 Million Fund To Support SMBs
Starbucks announced on Tuesday (Jan. 12) that it is investing $100 million from now through 2025 to support small businesses located in minority neighborhoods. The aim of the Starbucks Community...
January 08, 2021
December Jobs Report Shows Concerning Trend For SMBs
Blip? Or the start of a troubling trend? On Friday (Jan 8), we saw a disruption in efforts by U.S. businesses to create jobs, months into a global pandemic that,...
January 06, 2021
SMBs Brace For Potential New Round Of Lockdowns As COVID...
Like the coronavirus itself, lockdowns that have been implemented to combat the spread of the deadly disease have proven to have a similar tendency to spread, from cities, to states,...