At its most basic level, working capital is the cash flow needed to fund short-term costs and operations. However, the operative definition of working capital, its usage and its access has changed dramatically in the year since Visa’s release of the first Growth Corporates Working...
Download the ReportThe 2024-2025 Growth Corporates Working Capital Index The utilization of working capital solutions is on the rise. In fact, 80% of Growth Corporates using at least one such solution in 2024, is up 13% year over year. In addition, PYMNTS Intelligence’s research finds...
Businesses in the Eurozone have seen their third straight month of growth. According to The Wall Street Journal, this upward climb has been driven in a large part by stronger-then-expected economic numbers coming from Germany’s services and manufacturing sectors. This is welcome news for a region...
Just 58% of growth corporates in Central Europe, the Middle East and Africa (CEMEA) had been using working capital solutions, but that percentage is slated to grow to 95% in the coming months. This is one key finding included in PYMNTS Intelligence’s “CEMEA Edition” of...
October 21, 2024
At its most basic level, working capital is the cash flow needed to fund short-term costs and operations. However, the operative definition of working capital, its usage and its access has changed dramatically in the year since Visa’s release of the first Growth Corporates Working Capital Index. Where the inaugural 2023 edition of the index […]
April 15, 2024
The Asia-Pacific (APAC) region contributed roughly two-thirds of global growth last year. PYMNTS Intelligence recently studied Growth Corporates, or mid-market firms, in the APAC region to determine how they leveraged...
March 12, 2024
All companies in growth mode need access to capital, whether to fund short-term operational needs, mitigate unexpected expenses or execute plans for growth. One key demographic of these firms are...
February 20, 2024
Access to working capital enables all types of companies to avoid operational disturbances in the short term and to power growth for the long term. In Europe, 79% of Growth...
May 06, 2024
The PNC Financial Services Group and the TCW Group have formalized and expanded their partnership to develop a private credit platform focused on middle market lending. The companies aim to have $2.5 billion in investor equity capital available in the platform’s first year, and expect investment activity to begin in the fall, they said in a Monday […]
March 07, 2024
A strategic, forward-thinking approach to working capital helps separate top-performing middle-market firms from their peers, according to Visa. The latest release of the “2023-2024 Growth Corporates Working Capital Index,” noted...
February 28, 2024
Visa, in partnership with PYMNTS Intelligence, has launched a new benchmarking tool for middle-market CFOs to evaluate their working capital efficiency compared to industry peers. This tool, featuring a calculator...
