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BUSINESS STRATEGY

FIS | February 15, 2022

FIS announced the enhancement of its embedded payments strategy with the acquisition of Atlanta-based, Paytrix. This acquisition supports FIS' objective of expanding its e-commerce products to businesses of all sizes and industries through the integration of payment capabilities into Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) platforms. This acquisition will also enable FIS to deploy embedded financial capabilities alongside its e-commerce products to small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs).
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SMALL BUSINESS TRENDS

Principal Financial Group | August 25, 2021

Principal Financial Group® reported today an increased focus on key employee well-being initiatives and how benefits are helping employers cope with the pandemic fluctuation as they also make businesses more competitive for the next phase of recovery and growth. Over 90% of surveyed businesses plan to increase at least one benefit in the next 12 months. While recent variants of COVID-19 could bring extra hurdles to the recovery efforts small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) ...

Coin Rivet | January 17, 2020

Recent research by insurance firm Hartford Steam Boiler (HSB) and Zogby Analytics suggests that newly formed companies are far more likely to accept cryptocurrency payments than larger organisations. The survey, commissioned as part of an investigation into risk management for small and fledgling business, took place in October 2019 and examined over 500 small to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) across the United States. SMEs are defined as having an annual revenue under $5 million with less than...

SMALL BUSINESS ADVICE

NerdWallet | November 03, 2020

Financial guidance company NerdWallet announced at the end of last week that it has acquired Fundera. New York City-based Fundera was co-founded in 2013 by Jared Hecht, who previously co-founded GroupMe. It created a marketplace where small businesses could find loans, subsequently expanding into other areas like legal services, while also (like NerdWallet) offering free financial content. “It can be the wild wild west out there for small business owners,” Hecht said in ...