The Small Business Administration (SBA) plans to launch a working capital pilot program featuring a newly structured line of credit for small businesses that is designed to give greater flexibility than a traditional term loan. The 7(a) Working Capital Pilot (WCP) Program will launch later...
Small business banking platform Rapid Finance has introduced updates to its fraud detection platform Lynx. The platform now has a cloud-based rules engine that lets the company’s enterprise customers create customized risk management rules and outcomes, letting them make informed lending decisions tailored to specific...
NatWest has extended the Mastercard Business Savings program to include small business debit card customers in the United Kingdom. Previously, the program was only available to NatWest and RBS business credit card holders, the bank said in a Thursday (May 30) press release. The program...
Triver, a provider of cash flow financing for small- to medium-sized businesses in the United Kingdom, deployed several Experian data solutions to accelerate onboarding and approvals. With these solutions, SMBs using Triver’s platform can complete the application and approval process in as little as six minutes, the...
Small businesses on Main Street have proven to be more resilient than many of their larger counterparts, according to the PYMNTS Intelligence report “Main Street Businesses Are Outperforming the US Economy.” In the last 12 months, Main Street businesses have been operating with the lowest risk of...
Increasingly, small- to mid-sized businesses (SMBs) operating in the healthcare field are using real-time payment technology to improve cash flow efficiency. Thirty-eight percent of the healthcare SMBs PYMNTS Intelligence surveyed for “Small Business Real-Time Payments Barometer: Healthcare Edition” said real-time payments were their most-used payment method, with instant bank...
A record-breaking number of new business applications were filed in the United States last year; 5.5 million, to be exact. While that’s a great sign for American entrepreneurship, the surge in new businesses may put traditional business lending solutions under a strain that they’re unprepared to manage. Businesses commonly need external financing both to invest...
Despite news about rising inflation and stalled interest rates, recent PYMNTS Intelligence data confirms that many of the small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) that dot Main Street USA are demonstrating real resiliency. According to the latest edition of our SMB Growth Monitor Report, “Main Street...
At a time when every financial decision counts, many small to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) can at least take some comfort knowing there are a wide variety of borrowing tools available if needed. Today’s entrepreneurs can choose from reward-earning credit cards; merchant loans; bank loans; buy...
