CredibleX said Wednesday (March 12) that it will integrate Mastercard’s Small Business Credit Analytics (SBCA) into its embedded financing platform. This integration will enable CredibleX to improve financial inclusion for small to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) across the United Arab Emirates (UAE), the companies said in...
Direct-to-consumer offers have long been a mainstay of finance. But embedded finance is reshaping what it means for banks, businesses and FinTechs to interact, in real time, with customers, generating new revenue and giving end users a broad range of payments options that fit their...
Meta is reportedly planning a major expansion of its AI offerings for business users. The company’s artificial intelligence (AI) is being used by more than 700 million customers, and Meta hopes to offer it to “hundreds of millions” of businesses, Clara Shih, the tech giant’s head of...
American Express is set to purchase expense management software firm Center. The deal is aimed at helping American Express (Amex) bolster its services for small businesses, according to a Thursday (March 6) news release. “As a leader in corporate and small business cards, it is...
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 (CUs) over national banking giants. “SMBs don’t just want a […]
February 19, 2025
Small to medium-sized business (SMB) owners face a challenging landscape where larger, wealthier competitors dominate the economy. According to a PYMNTS Intelligence report, “A Good Year: Why SMBs Grew More...
February 04, 2025
It’s 2025, and yet many of America’s businesses are still stuck in the past, stubbornly clinging to paper checks. The problem with doing payments the same way they’ve done since the...
January 23, 2025
The year 2024 began as a question mark for the smaller firms that are central to Main Street communities and that power the U.S. economy as a whole. Inflation, of...
March 16, 2025
Town, a startup founded by veterans of Google, Plaid and OpenAI, has raised $18 million. The company announced the funding round Friday (March 14) along with the launch of its platform, designed to provide small businesses with the same tax advantages of big companies. “Big corporations deploy entire tax departments to minimize what they owe, […]
March 13, 2025
CredibleX said Wednesday (March 12) that it will integrate Mastercard’s Small Business Credit Analytics (SBCA) into its embedded financing platform. This integration will enable CredibleX to improve financial inclusion for...
March 06, 2025
Meta is reportedly planning a major expansion of its AI offerings for business users. The company’s artificial intelligence (AI) is being used by more than 700 million customers, and Meta hopes...
March 06, 2025
American Express is set to purchase expense management software firm Center. The deal is aimed at helping American Express (Amex) bolster its services for small businesses, according to a Thursday...
