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BMO Launches Platform to Help Small Businesses Manage Banking
Banking // April 27, 2026

BMO has debuted a platform for small and midsized enterprises (SMEs) and emerging middle market (EMM) customers. “While most U.S. banks focus digital solutions on retail consumers or large commercial enterprises, many SMEs lack a platform tailored to how owners and growing teams manage their everyday...

JPMorgan’s ‘American Dream’ Aims for 10 Million Small Business Clients
Banking // March 31, 2026

JPMorgan Chase has launched a program aimed at boosting economic opportunity around the U.S. The “American Dream Initiative” will focus on six areas, with an early emphasis on small businesses, the banking giant said in a Tuesday (March 31) news release. “The American dream is alive, but...

Xero and Plaid Team to Improve Small Business Banking Access
Partnerships // July 16, 2025

Small business platform Xero has joined forces with financial data network Plaid. This partnership is aimed at ultimately tripling the number of  high-quality bank feeds available to customers in the U.S., the companies said in a news release Wednesday (July 16). “For the many small businesses that form the backbone...

Going High-Touch and High-Tech Helps Local Banks Win Over Small Business Customers
Banking // February 26, 2025

Across the financial services landscape, digital transformation has changed everything. This fundamental and technological shift has led to an ongoing recalibration of the relationships small to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) have with financial institutions (FIs). It’s a recalibration that could favor community banks and credit unions...

Interviews & Exclusives
Small-Business Banking Has a Segmentation Problem

May 18, 2026
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 (SMBs) as if they formed a single commercial bloc moving through the economy at roughly the same speed and under roughly the same conditions. But new findings in the May […]

Going High-Touch and High-Tech Helps Local Banks Win Over Small Business Customers

February 26, 2025
Across the financial services landscape, digital transformation has changed everything. This fundamental and technological shift has led to an ongoing recalibration of the relationships small to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) have...

Markaaz CEO: SMBs Need a ‘Golden Record’ of Truth to Access Lending

October 10, 2024
If information is power, the lack of information creates a vacuum, especially in small business banking. As to what’s needed? Call it a single source of truth, a worldwide registry...

Amount: Digital Innovations Provide Right Small Business Products at Right Time

October 01, 2024
Small businesses have a big problem: access to capital. And this big problem is an equally big opportunity for the lenders that can get it right. But for decades, banks...

Quick Reads
BMO Launches Platform to Help Small Businesses Manage Banking

April 27, 2026
BMO has debuted a platform for small and midsized enterprises (SMEs) and emerging middle market (EMM) customers. “While most U.S. banks focus digital solutions on retail consumers or large commercial enterprises, many SMEs lack a platform tailored to how owners and growing teams manage their everyday banking,” the lender said in a Monday (April 27) news release. […]

JPMorgan’s ‘American Dream’ Aims for 10 Million Small Business Clients

March 31, 2026
JPMorgan Chase has launched a program aimed at boosting economic opportunity around the U.S. The “American Dream Initiative” will focus on six areas, with an early emphasis on small businesses, the...

Xero and Plaid Team to Improve Small Business Banking Access

July 16, 2025
Small business platform Xero has joined forces with financial data network Plaid. This partnership is aimed at ultimately tripling the number of  high-quality bank feeds available to customers in the U.S., the companies...

Marqeta Teams With Found to Streamline Expense Management

September 26, 2024
Card issuer Marqeta has launched a partnership with small business banking platform Found. The collaboration, announced in a news release Thursday (Sept. 26), offers small- to medium-sized business (SMB) owners...