SMBs

Small and Medium businesses are privately owned corporations, partnerships, or sole proprietorships which have fewer employees and/or less annual revenue than a regular-sized business or corporation.

57% of US Small Businesses Source Overseas as Payment Gaps Widen
57% of US Small Businesses Source Overseas as Payment Gaps Widen
May 21, 2026  |  SMBs

A collaboration between PYMNTS Intelligence and Mastercard, “The Cross-Border Opportunity: What Global Sourcing by US SMBs Means for Payment Providers” examines how U.S. small- to medium-sized...

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Small-Business Banking Has a Segmentation Problem
Small-Business Banking Has a Segmentation Problem
May 18, 2026  |  Banking

The term “small business” has traditionally functioned as a sort of economic shorthand. Banks, payment companies, FinTech firms, and even policymakers spoke about small-and-medium-sized businesses...

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Anthropic Launches Claude AI Agents for Small Business Finance
Anthropic Launches Claude AI Agents for Small Business Finance
May 14, 2026  |  Artificial Intelligence

A Manhattan marketing agency founder stopped spending hours each week generating invoices and chasing payments. A coffee roaster’s COO found operational problems he didn’t know...

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AI Needs Customers More Than Chips 
AI Needs Customers More Than Chips 
May 14, 2026  |  Artificial Intelligence

The artificial intelligence (AI) story has been framed as a provider arms race. Nvidia earnings became macroeconomic events, data centers turned into strategic assets, and...

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Anthropic Scales Claude AI Across 7 Small Business Apps
Anthropic Scales Claude AI Across 7 Small Business Apps
May 13, 2026  |  Artificial Intelligence

Anthropic’s Claude for Small Business plugin will bring new artificial intelligence (AI)-powered capabilities to tools commonly used by small businesses, the company and its partners said...

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PayPal and Anthropic Take AI to Main Street Businesses
PayPal and Anthropic Take AI to Main Street Businesses
May 13, 2026  |  Artificial Intelligence

PayPal said Wednesday (March 13) that it is partnering with Anthropic to offer a free online course called AI Fluency for Small Business and that its platform integrates with Anthropic’s...

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How Digitally Fluent Small Businesses Are Reshaping Main Street
How Digitally Fluent Small Businesses Are Reshaping Main Street
May 13, 2026  |  SMBs

Four years after the pandemic pushed millions of small businesses into emergency digital adoption, a new reality is taking shape across Main Street. The businesses...

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Remitly Business Accelerates Expansion With Full Canadian Launch
Remitly Business Accelerates Expansion With Full Canadian Launch
May 12, 2026  |  B2B Payments

Cross-border payments app Remitly Business is now generally available to small and medium-sized businesses in Canada. This expansion follows the offering’s launch in the United...

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Mastercard Rallies Partners to Support MENA Small Businesses
Mastercard Rallies Partners to Support MENA Small Businesses
May 08, 2026  |  SMBs

Mastercard has launched a program designed to help small- to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region navigate the trade...

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