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PNC Bank to Expand Small Business Offerings With Embedded ADP Payroll

October 28, 2026
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Relay and Nium Handle $500 Million in Cross-Border Payments in Partnership’s First Year
Cross-border Payments // October 19, 2026

Users of Relay’s small business banking and money management platform have sent over $500 million in cross-border payments through Nium’s global money movement platform since the companies launched their partnership about a year ago, according to a Monday (Oct. 19) press release. The users sent...

AI Agents Give Main Street Businesses Big Business Muscle
Artificial Intelligence // October 12, 2026

Running a small business has always meant doing more with less. The owner takes the morning shift, answers customer emails on lunch, reconciles the books at night and handles scheduling on weekends. Every hour spent on operations is an hour not spent on the work...

Small Businesses Skip the Cross-Border Plumbing Big Companies Can’t Escape
Cross-border Payments // October 05, 2026

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 local accounts. But the 2026 payments infrastructure may be creating a strange inversion where a small business can get a...

American Express Equips Corporate Card Program With New Spend Controls
Spend Management // September 30, 2026

American Express has launched the next generation of Amex Corporate, saying the program offers businesses greater visibility, control and flexibility across all aspects of card spend management. Amex Corporate brings together the new American Express Corporate Cashback Cards, integrated Expense Management software, a new Amex...

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AI Agents Give Main Street Businesses Big Business Muscle

October 12, 2026
Running a small business has always meant doing more with less. The owner takes the morning shift, answers customer emails on lunch, reconciles the books at night and handles scheduling on weekends. Every hour spent on operations is an hour not spent on the work that grows the business. Artificial intelligence agents are changing that […]

Dollar Payments Still Dominate Small Business Cross-Border Trade

June 16, 2026
Small and medium-sized businesses that once sourced domestically now purchase inventory, components and services from factories and vendors scattered across Asia, Europe and Latin America. The challenge lies not in...

63% of SMBs See Cards as Their Best Refund Protection

June 02, 2026
For many small businesses, the move away from cash will depend less on digital enthusiasm than on whether new payment tools can feel as simple, immediate and reliable as cash...

How Digitally Fluent Small Businesses Are Reshaping Main Street

May 13, 2026
Four years after the pandemic pushed millions of small businesses into emergency digital adoption, a new reality is taking shape across Main Street. The businesses that successfully digitized are increasingly...

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PNC Bank to Expand Small Business Offerings With Embedded ADP Payroll

October 28, 2026
PNC Bank and ADP have partnered to embed ADP’s payroll and human resources capabilities in PNC’s digital banking platform, ADP said in a Wednesday (Oct. 28) press release. This integration will enable PNC’s small business clients to manage payroll, HR, banking and payments through a single digital experience, according to the release. PNC Payroll by […]

Relay and Nium Handle $500 Million in Cross-Border Payments in Partnership’s First Year

October 19, 2026
Users of Relay’s small business banking and money management platform have sent over $500 million in cross-border payments through Nium’s global money movement platform since the companies launched their partnership...

American Express Equips Corporate Card Program With New Spend Controls

September 30, 2026
American Express has launched the next generation of Amex Corporate, saying the program offers businesses greater visibility, control and flexibility across all aspects of card spend management. Amex Corporate brings...

U.S. Bank Launches Cards to Meet Small Business Rewards Demand

September 28, 2026
U.S. Bank has launched two new small business credit cards that are designed to deliver “straight-forward rewards” on everyday business purchases, the bank said in a Monday (Sept. 28) press...