During Facebook’s Q1 earnings call with analysts, the executive team dug into one area of its business that it’s been paying more attention to in the past year: SMBs. Specifically, how to foster SMBs into its (free) Pages for businesses. Of course, Facebook has business intentions for...
As demonstrated in the PYMNTS Store Front Business Index, Store Front businesses are the heartbeat of the local economy. The Index assembles data on each and every one of these businesses across the U.S. and measures their vitality every single quarter; think of it as your...
First Data has secured an agreement with the largest bank in Tennessee to support small businesses. As part of its deal with First Tennessee Bank, which has roughly 200 retail and commercial banking locations, First Data will be able to offer those clients its products,...
Nearly six months into the EMV chip card mandate, the PYMNTS.com SMB Technology Adoption Index™ for the first quarter of 2016 finds that only 39 percent of small and medium businesses (SMBs) have implemented the required technology to accept Europay, MasterCard, and Visa (EMV).
Small and medium businesses (SMBs) make up nearly half of the private sector payroll in the U.S., but they face enormous challenges when it comes to managing their cash flows. So how are SMBs tapping into new technologies to solve problems in how they pay,...
