Consumer Truth - Insights & Strategy

Businesswire | August 06, 2020

As small and micro businesses (SMBs) worldwide continue to endure the financial impact of COVID-19, one thing is clear: rethinking the checkout or point-of-sale (POS) experience is essential for survival on Main Street. Visa (NYSE: V) today released the Visa Back to Business study assessing this dramatic shift to digital commerce in response to the pandemic, driven largely by changing consumer expectations for a safe and touchless payment moment. According to the eight market study of both consu...

Management

Globe News wire | April 03, 2023

Seattle Bank is partnering with JUDI.AI, a software-as-a-service (SaaS) company that leverages artificial intelligence (AI) and open banking technology to provide a small business lending platform for banks, credit unions, and other lenders. With JUDI.AI, Seattle Bank will offer small business borrowers a simplified loan application and approval process that now takes minutes instead of a week or more. “Loan applications can be a daunting process, but integrating JUDI&rsqu...

Small Business Advice

Globe Newswire | April 11, 2023

Today, the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) announced four Resource Partners of the Year awards. SBA Resource Partners, funded in part by the SBA, provide America's small businesses with technical assistance, training, and access to capital. In the first two years of the Biden-Harris Administration, a record-breaking 10.5 million Americans applied to start a business – more than any two years on record. These annual awards recognize the winners' impact on local economic gro...

WebWire | March 05, 2020

Cisco is accelerating its focus on serving small businesses by announcing new offers tailored to the small business buyer. In November 2019, Cisco introduced the new Cisco ‘Designed for Business’ portfolio at Partner Summit. Now the portfolio is growing with the addition of Cisco technology that originally powered Fortune 100 organizations and can now bring the same innovation to meet the needs of small businesses. Small business is big business and accounts for 44 percent of all IT ...