small business

AI Agents Start Paying Invoices Inside Supplier Portals 
AI Agents Start Paying Invoices Inside Supplier Portals 
November 12, 2026  |  Back-office

Small businesses showed more interest in using artificial intelligence to keep track of their bills than in using it to pay them. In a PYMNTS...

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Bilt Seeks Slice of $6 Trillion Neighborhood Commerce Space
Bilt Seeks Slice of $6 Trillion Neighborhood Commerce Space
November 10, 2026  |  SMBs

FinTech Bilt is expanding beyond the home and out into the neighborhood. The company, which made its name by offering rewards to consumers for rent...

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PNC Bank to Expand Small Business Offerings With Embedded ADP Payroll
PNC Bank to Expand Small Business Offerings With Embedded ADP Payroll
October 28, 2026  |  Payroll

PNC Bank and ADP have partnered to embed ADP’s payroll and human resources capabilities in PNC’s digital banking platform, ADP said in a Wednesday (Oct....

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Relay and Nium Handle $500 Million in Cross-Border Payments in Partnership’s First Year
Relay and Nium Handle $500 Million in Cross-Border Payments in Partnership’s First Year
October 19, 2026  |  Cross-border Payments

Users of Relay’s small business banking and money management platform have sent over $500 million in cross-border payments through Nium’s global money movement platform since...

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AI Agents Give Main Street Businesses Big Business Muscle
AI Agents Give Main Street Businesses Big Business Muscle
October 12, 2026  |  Artificial Intelligence

Running a small business has always meant doing more with less. The owner takes the morning shift, answers customer emails on lunch, reconciles the books...

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Small Businesses Skip the Cross-Border Plumbing Big Companies Can’t Escape
Small Businesses Skip the Cross-Border Plumbing Big Companies Can’t Escape
October 05, 2026  |  Cross-border Payments

Conventional wisdom says large corporations should dominate cross-border payments. They have global banks, treasury teams, negotiated FX rates, sophisticated treasury management system (TMS) platforms and...

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American Express Equips Corporate Card Program With New Spend Controls
American Express Equips Corporate Card Program With New Spend Controls
September 30, 2026  |  Spend Management

American Express has launched the next generation of Amex Corporate, saying the program offers businesses greater visibility, control and flexibility across all aspects of card...

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Meta’s Agentic Strategy Is Coming for the Main Street Back Office
Meta’s Agentic Strategy Is Coming for the Main Street Back Office
September 29, 2026  |  Facebook / Meta

Big Tech’s social and commerce platforms already dominate the web. Now, they want to help run Main Street. Meta made that ambition explicit Monday (Sept....

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U.S. Bank Launches Cards to Meet Small Business Rewards Demand
U.S. Bank Launches Cards to Meet Small Business Rewards Demand
September 28, 2026  |  Credit Cards

U.S. Bank has launched two new small business credit cards that are designed to deliver “straight-forward rewards” on everyday business purchases, the bank said in...

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