Emerging mid-market growth is getting brake-checked, but not just by internal systems. Increasingly, it’s the financial infrastructure and product offerings supporting them. Findings in a new report, “The Emerging Middle Market: When Operational Complexity Grows Faster Than Financial Infrastructure,” a collaboration between PYMNTS Intelligence and i2c, show that 46%...
Better get used to it. Maybe for a long time. As a new wave of U.S. tariffs on regions and countries, including Europe and South Korea, took effect on Thursday, business executives in the United States are no longer holding out hope that the Trump...
Cybersecurity risks are not merely a cost center for middle-market firms but represent a significant impediment to technological innovation, a challenge amplified dramatically for those operating in environments of high uncertainty, according to a recent report by PYMNTS. The analysis, part of the 2025 Certainty...
Procurement fraud has evolved on the back of digitally sophisticated tactics from an occasional business headache into a full-blown financial and reputational disaster for organizations worldwide. It’s no longer just a paper problem; the issue is moving from the back office to the boardroom. “We...
April 29, 2026
Watch more: Live Roundtable With Seth Perlman of i2c and Julie Schmitz of Scale Solutions U.S. companies in the $1 million to $50 million revenue band are in motion. Fifty-three percent of them expect to cross the $50 million threshold between 2029 and 2031, and 91% of the fastest-scaling firms say they are very or […]
April 22, 2026
Emerging mid-market growth is getting brake-checked, but not just by internal systems. Increasingly, it’s the financial infrastructure and product offerings supporting them. Findings in a new report, “The Emerging Middle Market:...
August 08, 2025
Better get used to it. Maybe for a long time. As a new wave of U.S. tariffs on regions and countries, including Europe and South Korea, took effect on Thursday,...
May 07, 2025
Cybersecurity risks are not merely a cost center for middle-market firms but represent a significant impediment to technological innovation, a challenge amplified dramatically for those operating in environments of high...
May 06, 2024
The PNC Financial Services Group and the TCW Group have formalized and expanded their partnership to develop a private credit platform focused on middle market lending. The companies aim to have $2.5 billion in investor equity capital available in the platform’s first year, and expect investment activity to begin in the fall, they said in a Monday […]
