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.

Mastercard Gives Hong Kong Banks X-Border Payments Help for SMBs

Mastercard Gives Hong Kong Banks X-Border Payments Help for SMBs
Mastercard Gives Hong Kong Banks X-Border Payments Help for SMBs
March 12, 2026  |  Cross-border Payments

Mastercard began rolling out a suite of solutions designed to help banks support the cross-border payment needs of small- to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) in the...

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Mastercard Offers Small Businesses Insights From Virtual CFO
Mastercard Offers Small Businesses Insights From Virtual CFO
March 10, 2026  |  SMBs

Mastercard has introduced an agentic AI offering designed to help small businesses. The company’s Virtual C-Suite, announced Tuesday (March 10), is a collection of artificial intelligence (AI) agents...

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Affiniti Teams With Column to Scale SMB Card Offering
Affiniti Teams With Column to Scale SMB Card Offering
March 09, 2026  |  Partnerships

Small business-focused platform Affiniti launched a financing agreement with Column bank, according to a Monday (March 9) press release. The agreement will see Column provide...

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86% of Top Performing Credit Unions Support Open Banking
86% of Top Performing Credit Unions Support Open Banking
March 09, 2026  |  Credit Unions

Small businesses may still like the local, relationship-first feel of credit unions, but that loyalty now comes with a digital price tag. The new PYMNTS...

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Small Businesses Use Business Credit Cards for Cash Flow, Not Rewards
Small Businesses Use Business Credit Cards for Cash Flow, Not Rewards
March 06, 2026  |  SMBs

Cash retains a stubborn presence in small- and mid-sized businesses, but business credit cards are beginning to erode that dominance by addressing the operational pressures...

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The Payment Frictions Costing SMBs Their Cash Flow
The Payment Frictions Costing SMBs Their Cash Flow
March 05, 2026  |  SMBs

People tend to gravitate toward what’s easy and familiar. Businesses typically do the same. This reality creates an uncomfortable truth for small- to medium-sized business...

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Platforms Expand SMB Lending as Working Capital Demand Rises
Platforms Expand SMB Lending as Working Capital Demand Rises
March 02, 2026  |  Loans

Small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) ended 2025 sharpening their demand and reliance on platform-based working capital. Earnings disclosures indicate that those balances grew meaningfully year...

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52% of Small Businesses Don’t Revolve Their Credit Card Balances
52% of Small Businesses Don’t Revolve Their Credit Card Balances
March 02, 2026  |  SMBs

Small businesses are treating credit cards less like a backup and more like a flexible operating tool, and the way they use them is starting...

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