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.

Mercury Integrates AI-Powered Payroll Capabilities Into Entrepreneur Accounts
Mercury Integrates AI-Powered Payroll Capabilities Into Entrepreneur Accounts
October 20, 2026  |  Payroll

FinTech company Mercury added an artificial intelligence-native payroll solution to its offerings so that founders can pay employees and contractors from the account they already...

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Mastercard and Extend Team to Improve Bank and Business Software
Mastercard and Extend Team to Improve Bank and Business Software
October 19, 2026  |  Banking

Mastercard has chosen spend management/virtual card FinTech Extend as one of its financial operations platform partners. The collaboration, announced Monday (Oct. 19), is designed to...

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Treso Wants Financial Products to Pay for Doctors’ Software
Treso Wants Financial Products to Pay for Doctors’ Software
October 19, 2026  |  Healthcare

Independent medical practices operate like small businesses, but the financial tools available to them rarely account for how healthcare works. Physicians must manage insurance reimbursements,...

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Truist Shifts Investment Toward Deposits and Digital Banking
Truist Shifts Investment Toward Deposits and Digital Banking
October 16, 2026  |  Banking

Truist exited its third quarter with higher deposits, continued growth in consumer spending and stable underlying credit quality. An earnings call Friday (Oct. 16) indicated...

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Small Business Lending Looks Beyond Credit Scores to Everyday Business Data
Small Business Lending Looks Beyond Credit Scores to Everyday Business Data
October 14, 2026  |  SMBs

A small business can have a warehouse full of merchandise, a growing order book and packages moving toward customers, and still struggle to qualify for...

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Chase Adds Payroll to Larger Business Banking Offering
Chase Adds Payroll to Larger Business Banking Offering
October 07, 2026  |  B2B Payments

Chase is expanding its payroll service to help business clients dealing with cash flow pressures. The new offering, announced Wednesday (Oct. 7), brings Chase Payroll...

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Stripe to Power Small Business Underwriting With FedEx Supply Chain Data
Stripe to Power Small Business Underwriting With FedEx Supply Chain Data
October 06, 2026  |  Partnerships

FedEx Dataworks, the insights and intelligence subsidiary of FedEx Corp., and Stripe plan to leverage their respective platforms to expand access to financing for small...

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Credit Union Members Want Rewards on the Tech Agenda
Credit Union Members Want Rewards on the Tech Agenda
October 06, 2026  |  Loyalty & Rewards

Credit unions deciding where to put their next technology dollar are getting a different answer from consumers than they might expect. The PYMNTS Intelligence playbook...

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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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