PYMNTS
MARCH 30, 2020
The boutique shops that lined Main Street USA, which got nearly all of their business face-to-face in their stores, expected that 2020 would be another great year. In other words, this sample reflects the composition of SMBs on those Main Streets and side streets of the communities that we all call home.
PYMNTS
MAY 25, 2020
With 90 percent of SMBs reporting that they have been negatively impacted by the coronavirus, according to PYMNTS research, it’s clear that Main Street cannot afford to sit idle. The consensus on Main Street, however, is that the old ways of doing business may be gone for good.
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PYMNTS
AUGUST 4, 2020
The first half of 2020 was a tough time to run a small business on Main Street as stay-at-home orders closed down restaurants and retailers for much or all of the past five months. That requirement of rapid change left many Main Street merchants deeply shaken and worried about their futures. According to our survey, 71.7
PYMNTS
AUGUST 12, 2020
To gauge the economic health and vitality of local economies, one need look no further than the financial stability of the small and medium-sized businesses that line the main streets and side streets of communities across the nation. One of the digital tools in which Main Street SMBs show great interest is real-time merchant fund settlement.
PYMNTS
SEPTEMBER 18, 2020
Online marketplaces are the digital storefronts helping small to mid-sized businesses survive — but adding real-time settlement into the mix can help them thrive. And 60 percent of surveyed firms selling across online marketplaces would take their business to one that offers real-time settlement.
PYMNTS
DECEMBER 19, 2019
As all aspects of individuals’ lives migrate online, from payments to dating, why shouldn’t the process of taking out an insurance policy do the same? “I thought, surely, this would all have gone digital, and that I could go online and buy a policy in five minutes or less,” he said. It’s a major expense.
PYMNTS
MAY 7, 2020
All eyes may be trained on Wall Street now, and Main Street too as the latest tranche of business lending gets underway. But revisiting management commentary and specific sub-segments of the reported data — specifically Square Capital and Cash App — shed additional light on where merchants see opportunity and challenge right now.
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