Small Business Payments news and trends

Small Business Fleets Like Sending Instant Payments
Real-Time Payments // June 14, 2024

Small- to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) in the transportation sector use instant payments more widely than other payment options. PYMNTS Intelligence finds that in the last year, 74% of these businesses surveyed sent instant payments. In fact, 48% of these SMBs identify an instant option as...

How Real-Time Payments Can Right-Size Small Business Cash Flow
SMBs // June 28, 2023

Small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) haven’t been able to catch a break in recent years. But tough times make tough companies. Still, after emerging straight from the pandemic years into a record inflationary environment juxtaposed against rising interest rates and ongoing macro and geopolitical hostility,...

Australia’s NPP Discovers Inroads To B2B Payments Traction
B2B Payments // August 18, 2021

Real-time payments aren’t only getting off the ground in more markets across the globe, but they’re also gaining traction in B2B payments — an ecosystem once assumed to be off-limits for instant transaction functionality. The previous line of thinking had been that businesses don’t want...

Canada Lays Groundwork For Open Banking Ambitions
B2B Payments // August 10, 2021

Legacy financial institutions (FIs) continue to find value in adopting the technologies their FinTech peers have developed. But this week’s roundup of the latest in bank-FinTech pairings also reveals the power that tie-ups can have to co-create a new solution. Plus, Canada inches closer toward...

Interviews & Exclusives
Instant Payments Book a Long Stay With Independent Hotels

July 26, 2024
Instant payments have become a mainstay for small to mid-sized businesses (SMBs) in the hospitality sector. For example, more hospitality SMBs used instant PayPal to send payments than used any traditional method, such as automatic clearing house transfers, credit cards and checks. Transaction speed is only one of many benefits hospitality SMBs cite. Nonetheless, nearly […]

Small Business Fleets Like Sending Instant Payments

June 14, 2024
Small- to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) in the transportation sector use instant payments more widely than other payment options. PYMNTS Intelligence finds that in the last year, 74% of these businesses...

How Real-Time Payments Can Right-Size Small Business Cash Flow

June 28, 2023
Small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) haven’t been able to catch a break in recent years. But tough times make tough companies. Still, after emerging straight from the pandemic years into...

Visa B2B Connect Live In 62 Countries, Adds Infosys As Integration Partner

September 20, 2019
Visa announced today that Visa B2B Connect is live in 62 countries, and has added Infosys as a new integration partner. Ahead of the announcement, Karen Webster spoke with Alan...

Quick Reads
Tradeshift Tests MakerDAO’s Stablecoin For Invoice Solution

July 06, 2018
In an effort to expedite payments for small businesses, MakerDAO is working with Tradeshift to tokenize unpaid invoices through an experimental program. MakerDAO, which has a stablecoin called Dai, said the token is being tested with the Tradeshift Cash solution, CoinDesk reported. With the effort, a small business could have the opportunity to change an invoice […]

Xero Announces Apple Pay + Stripe Integration

December 06, 2016
Small business online accounting software provider Xero just recently announced the integration of Apple Pay through Stripe into its mobile accounting app. This new development will allow Xero’s 862,000 subscribers,...

Amex Exit, Corporate Card Rules Tripping Up Curve’s All-In-One Paycard

May 26, 2016
Curve is gearing up for its anticipated solution for micro-businesses and entrepreneurs: an all-in-one payment solution that combines multiple cards in one. Earlier this week, the company announced a partnership...

Kleiner Invests In Align Commerce’s Blockchain Rails

November 18, 2015
Align Commerce, a global payments provider, has secured a major investment led by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers that will help position the company to continue overhauling the outdated international...