Small Business

British payments technology firm PayPoint is expanding its partnership with U.K. bank Lloyds. The collaboration, announced Wednesday (Dec. 4), is designed to provide banking and payments services to roughly 60,000 U.K. ...

Accounting/payroll technology firm Sage is rolling out its AI tool, Sage Copilot. Announced Tuesday (Dec. 3) for early adopters in the U.S. and U.K., Copilot is designed to help accounting and ...

For restaurants, there’s a funding gap, a chasm between gaining access to the capital they need to thrive and grow and the traditional channels offering that capital. Mitchell Hipp, divisional vice ...

There’s no shortage of business model innovation enabled by SaaS technology. It makes entering new markets easier. It makes data more accessible, a critical feature in the age of GenAI. ...

The White House says it is making it easier for underserved small businesses to get capital. The Biden administration announced in a news release Friday (Nov. 29) that the Small Business ...

Spendesk launched a payment institution that enables it to offer payment solutions to its clients across France and the European Union. The new Spendesk Financial Services is regulated by the Autorité ...

Cardless has raised $30 million in a funding round to support its continued development of co-branded credit card and loyalty products. The company will also use the new funding to hire ...

Mastercard will launch an immersive shopping experience in Fort Langley, British Columbia, Canada, that aims to support small businesses. The shopping experience will include a storybook created by Mastercard as well ...

Tennessee-based financial services firm Celero Commerce has acquired electronic payments technology provider Precision Payments. With the deal, announced in a news release earlier this month, Celero’s annual card processing volume in ...

The Federal Reserve’s pandemic-era Main Street Lending Program reportedly had $1.23 billion in interest and principal payments in default as of Oct. 31. The program delivered $17.5 billion in loans, with ...

All artificial intelligence (AI) systems are software, but not all software is AI. At least, not yet. Embracing the AI-ification of everything was the theme of accounting and tax software provider ...

Intuit has added a generative artificial intelligence (AI)-powered financial assistant to QuickBooks. The new Intuit Assist for QuickBooks is designed to help small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) by generating estimates, invoices, ...

The contemporary B2B landscape is being reshaped by a seismic shift toward automation and simplification. Companies are ditching clunky, manual processes in favor of sleek, digital-first solutions that prioritize speed, simplicity ...

LendingTree has teamed with Coverdash to offer insurance coverage to its small business and startup customers. The collaboration, announced Wednesday (Nov. 20), expands LendingTree’s financial product suite to allow small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) access to ...

TreviPay added automated buyer onboarding to its order-to-cash (O2C) offering. With the new feature, business buyers using TreviPay’s Risk Management Platform can apply for trade credit through a dynamic self-serve application, ...

Fiserv and ADP have partnered to offer U.S.-based small businesses a management system with capabilities across payroll, cash management and payments. The companies will create an integrated solution that brings together ...

Enigma and Databricks are collaborating to deliver data on small- to medium-sized business (SMB) financial health signals to customers. With this data, customers can access financial health intelligence about more than 33 ...

EverCommerce has expanded the capabilities of its platform for service-based small- to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) by adding artificial intelligence (AI) tools for compiling data. This data can inform small business owners’ ...

There’s an upcoming deadline for companies in the United States. Many firms and corporations created or registered to do business in the U.S. must comply with new regulations Jan. 1 implemented ...

Today’s B2B businesses want digital solutions to deliver efficiency without compromising on security. While that may be a tall order, modern solutions aimed at everything from smarter cash flow tools to ...

FinTech company Unlimit has launched a collaboration with Latin American B2B payments platform Pagaloop. The partnership is designed to bolster the Pagaloop app’s credit and debit card processing capabilities, while ensuring high approval rates ...

Small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) face challenges when securing credit, especially in an uncertain economy. Embedded lending, which integrates credit options directly into purchase platforms, offers a fast and convenient ...

The average consumer has 5.3 bank accounts. Now that the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has issued a final rule on data sharing, the age of open banking can get fully underway ...

Small- to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) have historically faced outsized challenges relative to their own footprint. From managing ever-growing tech stacks to optimizing cash flow amidst economic volatility, SMBs already have their ...

Human capital management software solutions provider Paychex has introduced a working capital offering. Paychex Funding Solutions, announced Tuesday (Nov. 12), is designed to provide small- to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) with fast ...

You pays your money, you makes your choice. That old idiom does not apply to many small- to medium-sized businesses (SMBs), however. The PYMNTS Intelligence report “How Instant Ad Hoc Payments Benefit ...

Mastercard has introduced a new platform designed to help financial and service providers offer their small business customers a way to consolidate the digital tools they use to run and ...

The next generation of small businesses just might be the current generation of micro-businesses. They’re the creators. The 200 million plus community that populates sites like OnlyFans, Patreon, YouTube and ...

  Many small to mid-sized businesses (SMBs) rely on non-recurring or ad hoc payments for a substantial portion of their monthly revenue. In fact, ad hoc receipts represent a growing share ...

The goal of innovation is to help businesses better tackle challenges that can feel daunting due to limited resources. And with the news Monday (Nov. 11) that identity and compliance platform Palm has introduced an ...

Beginning next year, many American businesses will have to comply with the Corporate Transparency Act. This law, which goes into effect Jan. 1, requires certain companies to provide the government with beneficial ownership ...

Digital transformation is serving up new efficiencies for the restaurant and hospitality sector. With razor-thin margins, shifting consumer tastes and an insatiable demand for convenience, digital tools that optimize how chefs, ...

Teamwork makes the dream work, especially when that dream is better B2B payments. With FinTech innovators increasingly pairing up with secure and reliable financial institutions, the future looks bright. Tribh Grewal, head ...

Small- to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) that focus on online sales outperform those that rely on physical stores, according to the PYMNTS Intelligence report “SMB Growth Report: Online vs. In-Store SMBs.” The ...

It was a good week on Wall Street for FinTechs despite one high-profile stock price drop from a member of the PYMNTS FinTech IPO 100: Marqeta. Led by BILL and ...

Throughout their history, mid-sized banks have served as a lifeline for local businesses across America. These financial institutions (FIs) — including community banks, regional banks, digital-only banks and credit unions — ...

Visa is injecting fresh funding into four startups that graduated from the first batch of its Visa Africa Fintech Accelerator program. The investments highlight Visa’s dedication to driving digital innovation within ...

Digital transformation holds promise for banks, but it could also give them pause. The traditional route, upgrading legacy systems and on-premise technology — going it alone, so to speak — is ...

From vendor pay to gig workers, enterprises are merging into the fast lane for payments. And as enterprises adopt models that rely on agile, ad hoc transactions, instant payments, once considered ...

The economy is unpredictable, and companies are clamoring for on-demand working capital solutions that can be tailored to their unique needs. Imagine a world where your bank knows your business as ...

For the payment networks, the continued shift beyond consumer cards has trillions of dollars’ worth of B2B transactions firmly in sight. And, as spotlighted in Visa and Mastercard’s most recent earnings ...

Melio raised $150 million in a Series E funding round to fuel the growth of its accounts payable (AP) and accounts receivable (AR) platform by expanding its B2B partnerships. The company ...

The B2B innovation landscape has never been more exciting than right now. Ongoing technological advances are driving a paradigm shift, allowing B2B firms to streamline and digitize nearly every element of ...

Fiserv has introduced a new suite of tools for small businesses. The offering, rolled out via the payments and financial services technology solutions company’s Clover point-of-sale and business management service, was designed with ...

Square is expanding its card offering into the U.K. for merchants seeking quicker funding access. An executive from the company — an arm of Twitter founder Jack Dorsey’s Block — told CNBC Thursday (Oct. ...