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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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Mastercard Dreamonomics Report Finds Smaller Businesses Prioritizing Stability
Mastercard Dreamonomics Report Finds Smaller Businesses Prioritizing Stability
September 15, 2026  |  Payment Methods

Small businesses are putting a premium on predictability. Across more than 6,000 small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) surveyed in 18 countries for Mastercard’s inaugural Dreamonomics...

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SMBs Swap Pricey SaaS Contracts for AI-Built Apps
SMBs Swap Pricey SaaS Contracts for AI-Built Apps
July 08, 2026  |  Artificial Intelligence

For two decades, buying enterprise software meant accepting a vendor’s feature set, paying per seat and hiring specialists to manage the platform. For small businesses,...

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Amex Sees ‘Tremendous Growth’ in Virtual Cards for B2B Payments
Amex Sees ‘Tremendous Growth’ in Virtual Cards for B2B Payments
December 18, 2024  |  B2B Payments

Complexities breed inefficiency, as business-to-business (B2B) payments throughout their history have proven. But B2B payments should be simple, easy and secure. In an era when...

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Docyt Adds ‘AI Bookkeeper’ to Small Business Financial Management Platform
Docyt Adds ‘AI Bookkeeper’ to Small Business Financial Management Platform
July 16, 2024  |  Back-office

Docyt has added an “AI bookkeeper” called GARY to its digital back-office solutions for small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs). GARY is built on the Docyt...

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Corporations Follow Small Businesses in Returning to Travel
Corporations Follow Small Businesses in Returning to Travel
June 04, 2024  |  Travel Payments

Large corporations are reportedly catching up with small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) in returning to business travel. While SMBs led the post-pandemic rebound in business...

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Visa Says 10 Billion Tokenized Payments Are Just the Beginning
Visa Says 10 Billion Tokenized Payments Are Just the Beginning
June 04, 2024  |  Payment Methods

The modern consumer more and more demands convenience and seamlessness across their daily lives. This simple, singular fact has served as a benchmark for much...

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