Labor Day finds Main Street approaching the fourth quarter with more ways to sell, get paid and source goods than it had four years ago. It also finds a substantial gap between the financial position of the smallest businesses and their larger SMB counterparts. Our...
Digital channels gave small and medium-sized businesses more than reach in 2025. They gave those companies a measurable growth edge: Digital-led SMBs were 14 percentage points more likely than store-led peers to increase revenue. “The SMB Growth Engine: How Digital Sales and Customer Tracking Drive...
A handful of small businesses have begun using prediction market platforms to hedge risks, Reuters reported Friday (Aug. 28). Companies of this size can’t get help from Wall Street banks in hedging risks that in some cases could kill their business, according to the report....
A small business can grow itself out of federal lending eligibility long before it becomes a large company. The Small Business Administration is proposing to give some of those firms more room to grow. Its proposed standards would raise revenue and employee limits across dozens...
Small businesses increasingly see growth coming from the digital channels that extend their reach without requiring another storefront. The PYMNTS Intelligence report “Why Main Street’s Digital Survivors Are Pulling Ahead: Four Years of Small Business Data” draws on 23 surveys conducted from July 2022 through...
Helcim, a payments company focused on Canadian small and medium-sized businesses, has raised $38 million in new funding. The Calgary startup’s Series C round will help Helcim invest in its platform at a time when many of Canada’s biggest banks are selling or outsourcing their merchant...
Artificial intelligence (AI) may be climbing the strategic agenda at credit unions, but the most consequential gap is no longer one of awareness. It is the widening distance between what business members are asking for and what their financial institutions are prepared to deliver. Findings...
Square’s refresh of its Square Credit Card, which was announced last week, is part of parent company Block’s broader strategy to more closely integrate payments, banking, credit and bill management within its platform, American Banker reported Monday (Aug. 17), citing its interview with Andrea Raj, head of product for Square...
For small businesses in the United States, the clearest growth opportunities increasingly sit beyond the storefront. “Why Main Street’s Digital Survivors Are Pulling Ahead: Four Years of Small Business Data” drew on 23 PYMNTS Intelligence surveys conducted from July 2022 through February 2026. The research...