Smb Payments news and trends

This Week In Payments: New Frontiers — Visa And Plaid; Goldman And Marcus; And Big...
Payments Innovation // January 17, 2020

With Retail’s Big Show in New York, earnings season kicking off and banks reporting on the State of the State 2019, there was no shortage of headlines this week. Yet, even in a big week, there are standouts — Visa bought Plaid, Goldman Sachs’ Marcus...

How SMBs Can Address Late Payments — Before They Happen
B2B Payments // January 10, 2020

Few small businesses (SMBs) are immune to the risk of delayed and late payments. With payment terms an age-old practice in B2B trade, ensuring trust between a buyer and supplier is essential for small vendors that provide goods and services — in the hope that...

FinTech Steps In As Invoice Payment Wait Times Inflate
B2B Payments // January 06, 2020

When it comes to late B2B payments, there’s good news and bad news. The good news stems from the U.K., where new research has found that fewer invoices were paid late to small businesses (SMBs) in 2019 than in 2018. Among the success stories of...

Behind Sysco’s Spend Management Switch To Cards
Spend Management // December 26, 2019

Businesses of all sizes are slowly phasing manual expense tools out of spend management strategies. Employees now work on a global scale more than ever, and require expense products that can keep up with their expanded ranges of services. It is, thus, important for businesses...

Interviews & Exclusives
This Week In Payments: New Frontiers — Visa And Plaid; Goldman And Marcus; And Big Doings ‘Bout SMB Payments

January 17, 2020
With Retail’s Big Show in New York, earnings season kicking off and banks reporting on the State of the State 2019, there was no shortage of headlines this week. Yet, even in a big week, there are standouts — Visa bought Plaid, Goldman Sachs’ Marcus hit $60 billion in deposits and 75 percent of small- […]

Behind Sysco’s Spend Management Switch To Cards

December 26, 2019
Businesses of all sizes are slowly phasing manual expense tools out of spend management strategies. Employees now work on a global scale more than ever, and require expense products that...

What The UAE Is Teaching Global FinTechs About SMB Banking

November 27, 2019
It’s not easy being small — especially in business, and often when it comes to banking and payments. The bigger players take up more space at the table, and, for...

Discover: What’s Around The Corner For Merchant Payments?

November 21, 2019
For merchants, divining the future of payments — in essence, anticipating what’s next — means looking around corners, thinking about what consumers want, and will want and then laying the technological...

Quick Reads
FreshBooks Offers Same-Day Deposits To SMBs

November 06, 2019
Accounting software FreshBooks has integrated with JPMorgan Chase’s WePay to offer small businesses same-day and next-day deposits, FreshBooks announced in a press release on Wednesday (Nov. 6). FreshBooks Payments enables its U.S. customers with a Chase bank account to access funds using WePay the same day a client makes a payment. Customers who don’t bank […]

Bill.com Debuts AI Business Payments Platform

May 22, 2019
Corporate payments technology firm Bill.com is rolling out a new platform designed to deploy artificial intelligence (AI) for automated workflows. In an announcement on Wednesday (May 22), Bill.com said it...