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Digital Sales Give Small Businesses a Map for Growth

Digital Sales Give Small Businesses a Map for Growth
Digital Sales Give Small Businesses a Map for Growth
September 03, 2026  |  SMBs

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...

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The CFPB Could Get a New Boss Called Congress
The CFPB Could Get a New Boss Called Congress
September 02, 2026  |  CFPB

House Republicans are proposing a rewrite of the statutory framework that governs how the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau makes rules, supervises financial institutions and brings...

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Interoperability Now Drives Asia-Pacific’s Real-Time Payments Agenda
Interoperability Now Drives Asia-Pacific’s Real-Time Payments Agenda
September 02, 2026  |  Real-Time Payments

Real-time payments in Asia-Pacific are entering a new phase. After years of building domestic instant payment rails, countries across the region are now connecting those...

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Spreedly Sees Good Bots Becoming an Agentic Commerce Channel
Spreedly Sees Good Bots Becoming an Agentic Commerce Channel
September 02, 2026  |  eCommerce

Watch more: Digital Shift With Spreedly’s Adam Hiatt Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to...

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56% of Consumers Have Faced a False Payment Decline
56% of Consumers Have Faced a False Payment Decline
September 02, 2026  |  Fraud Prevention

Merchants may have more revenue to gain from approving good customers than from tightening fraud controls another turn. Get the Full Story Complete the form...

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CFOs Forecast Better When Finance Sees More
CFOs Forecast Better When Finance Sees More
September 02, 2026  |  Back-office

The competitive advantage today isn’t forecasting tomorrow’s cash more accurately. It’s having less of today’s cash left to forecast. Get the Full Story Complete the...

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How 23% of Merchants Captured Retail’s Next Agentic Commerce Advantage
How 23% of Merchants Captured Retail’s Next Agentic Commerce Advantage
September 02, 2026  |  Artificial Intelligence

Artificial intelligence agents are poised to influence discovery, payment choice and transactions. But only 23% of merchants can clearly identify both AI-driven traffic and purchases...

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Embedded Payments Emerge as a FinTech M&A Target
Embedded Payments Emerge as a FinTech M&A Target
September 01, 2026  |  Fintech Investments

FinTech buyers looking for growth in a tough funding and software market are finding something valuable inside real estate closings, municipal bills, healthcare practices and...

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