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.

Small Businesses Stop Chasing Amazon on Delivery Speed
Small Businesses Stop Chasing Amazon on Delivery Speed
April 21, 2026  |  Delivery

The old adage holds: Shoppers “want what they want, when they want it.” In retail, that “when” has always meant now. Conventional wisdom long ago...

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AI Finds Its Best Customer on Main Street
AI Finds Its Best Customer on Main Street
April 20, 2026  |  Artificial Intelligence

Main Street businesses run lean and demand results. There’s no budget for experimentation and no appetite for tools that don’t pay off fast. Every automation...

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SMBs Have a Tracking Problem, Not a Spend Problem
SMBs Have a Tracking Problem, Not a Spend Problem
April 17, 2026  |  SMBs

Watch more: Need to Know With Capital One’s Nat Hewett Small business spending continues to underpin broad economic activity, but the systems that support that...

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How Payments Gaps Are Limiting Deposit Growth at Community Banks
How Payments Gaps Are Limiting Deposit Growth at Community Banks
April 16, 2026  |  Money Mobility

Community banks have made meaningful progress in digitizing account opening, but the competitive battleground for deposits is shifting. Opening and even funding accounts are no...

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Payments Alone No Longer Cut It for Small Businesses
Payments Alone No Longer Cut It for Small Businesses
April 16, 2026  |  SMBs

Synchrony is launching a three-part interview series aimed at a central challenge facing small businesses: how to grow sales without putting more pressure on margins...

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Oil Price Spike Erodes Small Business Confidence, NFIB Says
Oil Price Spike Erodes Small Business Confidence, NFIB Says
April 14, 2026  |  Economy

Small business optimism dipped below its 52-year average for the first time in a year in March, driven by the Iran war and the subsequent...

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Mastercard’s Mark Barnett Says the Real Currency for SMBs Is Payment Timing
Mastercard’s Mark Barnett Says the Real Currency for SMBs Is Payment Timing
April 14, 2026  |  SMBs

Watch more: Need to Know With Mastercard’s Mark Barnett Small- to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) know best that growth doesn’t happen in a straight line. But...

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PayPal Lets Small Businesses Tap Into Brazil’s Pix System
PayPal Lets Small Businesses Tap Into Brazil’s Pix System
April 13, 2026  |  Payment Methods

PayPal is bringing Brazil’s Pix payment system to its small and medium-sized business (SMB) customers. “With Pix now available through PayPal Complete Payments, small businesses can...

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BILL Debuts Enhanced Version of Supplier Payments Plus Tool
BILL Debuts Enhanced Version of Supplier Payments Plus Tool
April 08, 2026  |  B2B Payments

Finance platform BILL has announced an expansion to its Supplier Payments Plus offering. The new capabilities extend the tool’s ability to automate and “intelligently orchestrate...

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