Small Businesses news and trends

Visa Commits $2 Million to Fuel Small Businesses Growth

September 30, 2026
Visa
Valley Bank Courts Small Businesses With Bluevine Acquisition
Acquiring // September 28, 2026

Valley Bank is set to acquire Bluevine, a digital banking platform for small businesses. The $340 million deal is designed to help Valley with its efforts to strengthen its funding base, expand its small business franchise, and accelerate its digital and artificial intelligence (AI) strategy,...

SBA Proposal Could Add 114,000 Firms to Small Business Ranks
SMBs // August 27, 2026

A small business can grow itself out of federal lending eligibility long before it becomes a large company. The Small Business Administration is proposing to give some of those firms more room to grow. Its proposed standards would raise revenue and employee limits across dozens...

Helcim Raises $38 Million to Fill Small Business Banking Void
SMBs // August 23, 2026

Helcim, a payments company focused on Canadian small and medium-sized businesses, has raised $38 million in new funding. The Calgary startup’s Series C round will help Helcim invest in its platform at a time when many of Canada’s biggest banks are selling or outsourcing their merchant...

Intuit Turns QuickBooks Into a Credit Hub for Small Businesses
SMBs // July 22, 2026

Intuit has debuted a new small business-focused credit card in collaboration with Mastercard. The World Elite Business Mastercard, announced Wednesday (July 22), is designed to sync with Intuit’s QuickBooks platform to help businesses manage spending, access credit and get a handle on their financial health...

Interviews & Exclusives
SBA Proposal Could Add 114,000 Firms to Small Business Ranks

August 27, 2026
A small business can grow itself out of federal lending eligibility long before it becomes a large company. The Small Business Administration is proposing to give some of those firms more room to grow. Its proposed standards would raise revenue and employee limits across dozens of industries, adding an estimated 114,541 businesses to the pool […]

Lithic and Mastercard Make SMB Loans Ready to Spend

July 20, 2026
Watch more: Live Roundtable With Mastercard’s Ginger Siegel and Lithic’s Nikil Konduru Small businesses rarely have the luxury of waiting for capital to arrive on someone else’s timetable. When equipment...

Capital One Says Small Businesses Are Cautious, Confident and Ready to Grow

July 07, 2026
Watch more: Need to Know With Capital One’s Shena Ashley For America’s small business owners, optimism and caution are no longer opposing forces. They are operating simultaneously. Even as inflation...

AI Gives Main Street Its Own Finance Department

June 17, 2026
Small businesses run on instinct. Main Street entrepreneurs know their customers personally. They understand seasonal fluctuations without consulting dashboards; many can sense when sales are slowing, when inventory is piling...

Quick Reads
Visa Commits $2 Million to Fuel Small Businesses Growth

September 30, 2026
Visa says it is giving $2 million to support organizations that support small businesses. That commitment from the Visa Foundation is aimed at entrepreneurial support organizations (ESOs) serving small businesses in the U.S., the company announced Wednesday (Sept. 30), opening the program to grant applications. Those grants are geared toward small business owners who want to “build skills, access […]

Valley Bank Courts Small Businesses With Bluevine Acquisition

September 28, 2026
Valley Bank is set to acquire Bluevine, a digital banking platform for small businesses. The $340 million deal is designed to help Valley with its efforts to strengthen its funding...

Helcim Raises $38 Million to Fill Small Business Banking Void

August 23, 2026
Helcim, a payments company focused on Canadian small and medium-sized businesses, has raised $38 million in new funding. The Calgary startup’s Series C round will help Helcim invest in its platform...

Intuit Turns QuickBooks Into a Credit Hub for Small Businesses

July 22, 2026
Intuit has debuted a new small business-focused credit card in collaboration with Mastercard. The World Elite Business Mastercard, announced Wednesday (July 22), is designed to sync with Intuit’s QuickBooks platform...