The last 18 months have been marked by incredible challenges and adjustments within the nation’s small business community. Digitization went from being an option to a necessity nearly overnight — and business owners and entrepreneurs of all stripes were forced to rewrite their models in...
Small businesses worldwide were hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic, and Australia was no exception. Derailed by physical location closures and the trepidations of consumers, shopkeepers and entrepreneurs nationwide were forced nearly overnight to rewrite and recreate their business models to meet the rarified needs of...
In A Decade of Digital Transformation in 12 Months, 46 C-suite executives spoke with PYMNTS for its Q2 eBook on what the world will look like as recovery rolls on and the next iteration of normal rolls out. In this excerpt, Tim Joslyn, chief technology...
All over the world, consumers are warming up to the idea of shopping locally. PYMNTS research reveals that 46 percent of all U.K. consumers — 24 million people — say now is the time to shop with the roughly six million small- to medium-sized businesses...
July 29, 2021
Small businesses worldwide were hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic, and Australia was no exception. Derailed by physical location closures and the trepidations of consumers, shopkeepers and entrepreneurs nationwide were forced nearly overnight to rewrite and recreate their business models to meet the rarified needs of the time. Some firms have done better than others at […]
July 28, 2021
All over the world, consumers are warming up to the idea of shopping locally. PYMNTS research reveals that 46 percent of all U.K. consumers — 24 million people — say...
July 27, 2021
Making Loyalty Work For Small Businesses: Brazil Edition, a PYMNTS and Pollinate collaboration, analyzes survey responses from a census-balanced panel of 1,106 Brazilian consumers to assess their desire to shop...
July 21, 2021
In Making Loyalty Work for Small Businesses: United Kingdom Edition, a PYMNTS and Pollinate collaboration, researchers surveyed a census-balanced panel of 1,115 U.K. consumers as part of a larger study...
June 25, 2021
Pollinate, which equips banks with a toolkit for small businesses, is teaming with Mastercard to roll out its “Ingenious” filmmaker competition that will highlight the resilience of small businesses amid the pandemic, according to a Friday (June 25) announcement. “By combining our shared passion for small business, ‘Ingenious’ is intended to uncover diverse small business […]
March 18, 2021
Pollinate has raised $50 million to bring its software business to North America and to expand its platform technology, according to a press release emailed to PYMNTS Thursday (March 18)....
August 14, 2020
To provide banks serving small- to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) throughout the globe with the newest technology and insights, Mastercard and Pollinate have agreed to a strategic partnership. The collaboration comes...
