Square has debuted banking tools designed to help sellers gain instant access to their funds. The expansion of the platform’s banking service lets business owners sign up for a Square payments account and a free Square Checking account through one application from Square’s website and point-of-sale...
Pipe has brought together embedded capital and spend management solutions for small businesses by acquiring Glean.ai. This acquisition adds Glean.ai’s artificial intelligence (AI)-powered spend management offering to Pipe’s embedded financial solutions for software platforms that serve small businesses, Pipe said in a Tuesday (April 15)...
The circle of trust and the issues around risk management explored in PYMNTS’ recent “What’s Next in Payments” articles are often heavy on future technology. They may bring to mind a consumer logging into a bank app, sending a P2P payment or transacting with a...
Many hands make light work, but digital solutions remove the need for hands. And scaling operational productivity without scaling headcount, particularly within the back-office, is increasingly top of mind for today’s businesses of all shapes and sizes. After all, among the core processes that directly...
April 17, 2026
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 spending have room for improvement. Many owners launch with urgency, using whatever tools are immediately available, and only later confront the operational consequences. Those consequences tend to appear not in […]
December 20, 2024
The circle of trust and the issues around risk management explored in PYMNTS’ recent “What’s Next in Payments” articles are often heavy on future technology. They may bring to mind...
August 15, 2024
There’s a difference between managing your business’s cash flow, and having it manage you. That difference is something small to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) know well, particularly those that find themselves...
October 02, 2023
Access to business financing is crucial for small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) on Main Street — firms generating less than $10 million in annual revenue and having physical locations from...
April 30, 2025
Square has debuted banking tools designed to help sellers gain instant access to their funds. The expansion of the platform’s banking service lets business owners sign up for a Square payments account and a free Square Checking account through one application from Square’s website and point-of-sale app, according to a Wednesday (April 30) news release. In […]
April 15, 2025
Pipe has brought together embedded capital and spend management solutions for small businesses by acquiring Glean.ai. This acquisition adds Glean.ai’s artificial intelligence (AI)-powered spend management offering to Pipe’s embedded financial...
September 09, 2024
Finance and human resources suite finally has raised $200 million in new funding. The financing, a $50 million Series B from PeakSpan Capital and $150 million credit facility from Encina, will help...
June 04, 2024
The Small Business Administration (SBA) reportedly plans to launch a working capital pilot program that will include government-backed credit lines of up to $5 million. The pilot program is designed...
