Small business

While many consumers and large businesses are keen to adopt digital, real-time payments, there are still some groups of users that tend towards longer-established payment methods that are inconsistent with the digital economy, according to Standard Chartered's Tarek Elyafi and Shantanu Vijaykumar Bhosale.

Inertia or resistance to change have kept small businesses from making the move to more modern systems, says Clover's Mark Schulze.

Kabbage Inc. is offering tailored loans to small businesses that have unexpected cash flow needs, hoping to grab a wider share of its clients' relationships.

A new app will allow small-business clients to quickly apply for credit while expanded offerings for homeowners associations will help CIT build up its base of low-cost deposits.

B2B payment trends are trying to catch up with B2C payment trends but are still lagging behind, says FTV Capital's Rob Anderson.

A strong economy in 2020 could lift the small-business card market, which is an important source of lending and payments for entrepreneurs and local merchants.

The agency's new leader began her career as a part-time night-shift package handler for UPS in Chicago.

Two of Australia’s biggest banks, National Australia Bank (NAB) and Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA), are competing to be the first to commercially launch tap-on-phone contactless payments in the country.

Smaller enterprises don't have the resources of larger firms, but open source technology may be helpful, says Pimcore's Shashin Shah.