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Now Closes $29M Financing Deal to Pay SMBs’ Outstanding Invoices, Scale
October 07, 2021

Now, a FinTech, has received $29 million in financing from a new credit facility and an additional equity investment led by Brigade Capital Management and Virgo Investment Group, according to a press release. The credit facility will help the company expand the outreach of NowAccount,...

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PYMNTS’ Merchant Index Finds Main Street SMBs Taking Different Paths to Recovery
October 07, 2021

Big wins for small business seem harder to come by as global enterprises dominate the news and our everyday lives, but small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) are a pandemic-era success story that, with miles still to go, are proving remarkably resilient. In the latest installment...

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Bringing UAE’s SMBs Into the Digital Economy
October 06, 2021

Small and midsized businesses (SMBs) have faced the brunt of the COVID-19 pandemic. Although governments have made efforts to provide relief, more needs to be done to accelerate digital financial inclusion for corporates and small businesses in the United Arab Emirates. Visa Senior Vice President...

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Quadient Rolls Out Upgrade to Help SMBs Shift to Digital
October 05, 2021

Customer experience management startup Quadient has launched an update to its Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) product Quadient Impress that makes it easier for small- to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) to fully embrace digital processes, according to a Tuesday (Oct. 5) press release. Quadient Impress offers a multi-channel document...

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GoDaddy Launches POS Devices That Let Merchants Link Online, Offline Stores
September 28, 2021

Web hosting company GoDaddy has expanded GoDaddy Payments with the launch of two point-of-sale (POS) devices, according to a press release. The first device is the GoDaddy Smart Terminal, which works for brick-and-mortar businesses, the release stated. It’s dual-screened and doesn’t require swiveling screens, and...

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Banks Capturing Coalition Loyalty Programs Could Be the Key to Get UK SMBs Over the...
September 24, 2021

Loyalty programs and other special offerings are popular in the U.K., where 76% of all consumers receive regular rewards or discounts from at least one of the businesses with which they shop. This was among the findings in a recent PYMNTS report, Making Loyalty Work...

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Main Street Service Industry Wages Up 10% in Past Year
September 23, 2021

Nothing’s come easy amid the pandemic, to put it mildly. But through the past 18 months, we’ve found out just how resilient “Main Street” SMBs really are. In fact, as found in the latest SMB update, as part of PYMNTS’ ongoing Pandenomics series, Main Street...

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UK More Likely to Utilize Digital Channels Through SMBs Than Large Stores
September 22, 2021

Digital commerce is exploding in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, and small to mid-sized businesses (SMBs) must claim their share of the eCommerce pie that is currently dominated by technology giants like Amazon. Based on findings from an SMB-focused study, “The Global Digital Shopping...

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Omnichannel, On the Go: SMBs Demand Banking, Payments and Software Convergence
September 20, 2021

In the great digital shift, for small to mid-sized businesses, payments have become very much an “in the field” activity, done both on-site and on-demand. Contractors want to pay their subcontractors. Construction firms need to pay for materials on the fly. Landscapers and any number...