Small businesses that sell physical goods generate records before the commercial activity is reflected in the financial accounts or converted into cash. Orders enter commerce systems. Inventory moves into and out of warehouses. Products are picked and packed. Shipments leave for customers. Each step produces...
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...
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,...
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...
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 […]
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...
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...
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...
October 26, 2026
Mastercard has launched a creator-focused partnership with YouTube superstar MrBeast. This effort will see Mastercard and MrBeast’s Beast Industries collaborate on new consumer and creator co-brand card programs, experiences and tools, the companies announced Monday (Oct. 26), with the goal of helping “creators and the next generation turn ideas into opportunity and build stronger financial […]
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...
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...
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...
