The holiday weekend is here. And, as has been seen over more than a decade, Small Business Saturday, a mainstay of the retail landscape initially promoted by American Express and now tied to the U.S. Small Business Administration, is here again. Last year the “shop...
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 which they conduct their business within core commercial districts of cities or towns. But according...
The Philadelphia Federal Reserve’s September Manufacturing Business Outlook Index offers up a monthly survey of manufacturers’ current business conditions and their outlook on what’s to come. And as such, the Index serves as a snapshot of Main Street sentiment, at least in one corner of...
Access to business financing is crucial for Main Street small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs). But while a significant share of these small businesses across all revenue tiers have access to business funding sources, about 30% of those with less than $150,000 in annual revenue have...
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 which they conduct their business within core commercial districts of cities or towns. But according to PYMNTS Intelligence research, only 39% of these SMBs have […]
September 17, 2019
Checks. Spreadsheets. Mounds of paper. Opaque payments moving sluggishly across borders and between banks. There is a mountain of friction in commercial payments today that seems to have held the...
May 31, 2017
Only a small portion of micro-businesses will graduate to become small businesses, never mind medium-sized businesses. And yes, that’s partly because many of these businesses will fail. But according to...
October 19, 2016
Cash flow forecasting technology was once only for the massive enterprise, with resources aplenty to invest in such tools and the internal expertise to understand the complexity of it all....
October 01, 2018
Business lending in Australia probably won’t face tougher loan regulation when it comes to small business loans. “The evidence and submissions provided to the commission did not reveal any great appetite to change the legal framework,” Commissioner Kenneth Hayne said in his interim report, according to the Australian Financial Review. “In particular, I did not […]
August 03, 2018
Barclays is the next traditional financial institution to strike a partnership with an alternative lender, announcing Thursday (Aug. 2) that it has invested in small business lending platform MarketInvoice. An...
July 31, 2018
Small business financing company Fundera released the results of a survey assessing how entrepreneurs make purchases for their companies. WTOP said on Monday (July 30) that Fundera’s report revealed how common...
July 26, 2018
Trade disputes and other features of rising global uncertainty aren’t enough to deter U.S. corporations from remaining optimistic, according to the New York Times. Reports this week highlighted the National...
