The rumors of Main Street's demise may be greatly exaggerated. The hot-off-the-presses Q3 PYMNTS Store Front Business Index™ indicates that store front businesses are proving doomsdayers wrong, growing by nearly 2 percent in Q2 2016 and outpacing GDP. You can find more key takeaways from the research, along...
The latest employment news among small businesses is a mixed bag of good and bad indicators. Payroll firm ADP and SME lender Biz2Credit find that hiring in August is up from July, particularly for the health, retail and technology sectors. Other good news is that SME...
Entrepreneurship in the United States gained ground in 2015, which marked an end to a decline that had stretched out over five years. Those are among the key takeaways from a report by the Kauffman Foundation. In a survey conducted by the research firm and...
During Facebook’s Q1 earnings call with analysts, the executive team dug into one area of its business that it’s been paying more attention to in the past year: SMBs. Specifically, how to foster SMBs into its (free) Pages for businesses. Of course, Facebook has business intentions for...
As demonstrated in the PYMNTS Store Front Business Index, Store Front businesses are the heartbeat of the local economy. The Index assembles data on each and every one of these businesses across the U.S. and measures their vitality every single quarter; think of it as your...
First Data has secured an agreement with the largest bank in Tennessee to support small businesses. As part of its deal with First Tennessee Bank, which has roughly 200 retail and commercial banking locations, First Data will be able to offer those clients its products,...
Nearly six months into the EMV chip card mandate, the PYMNTS.com SMB Technology Adoption Index™ for the first quarter of 2016 finds that only 39 percent of small and medium businesses (SMBs) have implemented the required technology to accept Europay, MasterCard, and Visa (EMV).
Small and medium businesses (SMBs) make up nearly half of the private sector payroll in the U.S., but they face enormous challenges when it comes to managing their cash flows. So how are SMBs tapping into new technologies to solve problems in how they pay,...
