Tagged: small businesses

June 23, 2024 @ 11:37 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Adyen (ADYEN:AMS), the financial technology platform for businesses, and SumUp, the global financial technology firm for small merchants, have joined forces in a partnership to offer a best-in-class payment experience and accelerated settlements for millions of small businesses worldwide. With this partnership, SumUp builds on its… Read More

June 21, 2024 @ 6:08 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

For small businesses, navigating the set-up of payment acceptance can be confusing and expensive, often requiring significant upfront costs to set up a website, checkout, and POS terminal. This, according to an update from researchers at Juniper Research. However, merchants can now do all these… Read More

June 12, 2024 @ 10:43 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Xero, the global small business platform, has released research highlighting how Australian small businesses think and feel about the end of financial year (EOFY). The survey of more than 1000 small business owners and decision makers “revealed 71% consider this time of year stressful, and… Read More

June 5, 2024 @ 7:21 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Tide, the business financial platform in the UK, has partnered with carbon measurement pioneer Connect Earth to develop and deliver a new range of carbon accounting tools that will help Tide’s members (customers) reduce their carbon footprint. Small businesses currently account “for 50% of the… Read More

May 16, 2024 @ 8:16 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The British Business Bank has released a new report showing that 56% of smaller businesses in Northern Ireland are using external finance. The report, entitled, Northern Ireland SME Access to Finance Report, shares key insights about small businesses operating in the area. 📢Out today, our… Read More

May 12, 2024 @ 7:04 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Venmo announced the third Venmo Small Business Grant, a program for small businesses that will provide financial grants and mentorship to 10 Venmo business profile users. In the program’s third year, selected businesses will each “receive $20,000 for expenses, such as rent, supplies, marketing, or… Read More

May 4, 2024 @ 9:33 am By Omar Faridi  |  

A majority of small and mid-sized business owners expect their revenues to increase this year, and their worries over a recession have declined substantially, according to the 2024 Bank of America Business Owner Report, conducted in partnership with Bank of America Institute (NYSE: BAC). While… Read More

April 30, 2024 @ 10:26 am By Omar Faridi  |  

UK small business hiring continued to show signs of recovery in the face of a challenging macroeconomic environment, with employment rising 1.4% year-on-year (y/y) in the first quarter of the year (January-March 2024). According to the latest Xero Small Business Insights (XSBI) data from global… Read More

April 24, 2024 @ 4:42 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Xero, the global small business platform, released its latest Xero Small Business Insights (XSBI) quarterly update for Canada, based on data from October to December 2023. The data showed that Canada’s small business sales decline “may be levelling off, which is an encouraging signal for… Read More

April 15, 2024 @ 7:57 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Xero, the global small business platform, today released a Xero Small Business Insights (XSBI) special report which shows Australian small business labor productivity is keeping pace with national productivity growth, but remains below pre-pandemic levels. The report, Small business productivity: Trends, implications and strategies, is… Read More

April 12, 2024 @ 4:38 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Xero, the global small business platform, released a Xero Small Business Insights (XSBI) report which shows New Zealand small business labor productivity remains below pre-pandemic levels, putting additional pressure on small businesses. The report, Small business productivity: Trends, implications and strategies, is based on anonymized… Read More

March 21, 2024 @ 7:37 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Small firms continue to face a challenging macroeconomic environment, as sales growth in the December festive period hit a three-year low, according to the Xero Small Business Insights (XSBI) data from global small business platform Xero – which covers the three months to December 2023…. Read More

February 25, 2024 @ 7:24 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Bluevine, the one-stop digital banking platform specifically designed for small businesses, today released its inaugural Business Owner Success Survey (BOSS) Report, “benchmarking the data behind the actual decisions that US-based small business owners are making and informing their future decisions.” The data supports an “overarching… Read More

January 30, 2024 @ 1:25 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Bluevine, the one-stop digital banking platform specifically designed for small businesses,  announced a new partnership with Allpoint to “provide more convenient ATM cash deposit access to its customers through 1,500 Allpoint+ enabled ATMs.” Combining the new Allpoint partnership with participating Green Dot retailers, small business… Read More

January 26, 2024 @ 9:11 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Jack Henry (Nasdaq: JKHY) is pleased to announce Banno Business, a new solution that enables community and regional financial institutions “to offer modern banking experiences for small-to-medium businesses (SMBs).” Community banks and credit unions are “well-positioned to support SMBs because of their knowledge of the… Read More

January 22, 2024 @ 2:23 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

SoFi (NASDAQ: SOFI), the digital personal finance company, announced recently the expansion of its new small business marketplace within the SoFi product experience. With this addition, SoFi will now be able to better support millions of American small business owners’ financing needs by “connecting them… Read More

January 22, 2024 @ 7:58 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Business activity at UK small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) expanded at the fastest rate for seven months in December, “led by renewed growth in the service economy.” Adding to signs of a steady turnaround in business conditions, new orders “stabilized at the end of 2023,… Read More

January 22, 2024 @ 7:54 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Following its launch in the Netherlands last year, smeGo aims to expand further in Europe and offer established SMEs “a full range of financial services and digital tools.” In 2024, smeGo says that it plans to “maintain the pace of its growth and is actively… Read More

January 22, 2024 @ 5:48 am By Omar Faridi  |  

NAB has partnered with Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) to deliver a free cyber assessment tool in order “to help Aussie small businesses prepare for and bounce back from a cyber attack.” The tailored, self-assessment – available for all Australian businesses from now – “takes under two… Read More

January 15, 2024 @ 5:22 am By Omar Faridi  |  

‍Small business optimism returns in 2024, as half of SMEs anticipate growth this year, according to new research from iwoca – which claims to be one of Europe’s largest small business lenders. iwoca also mentioned that nearly half (47%) of small business owners “surveyed expect… Read More