Payments
QuickBooks introduces new payments hardware for small businesses as everyone guns for Square
- Intuit has introduced a new innovative, inexpensive card reader targeting small businesses.
- Square's rising dominance over the SMB payment ecosystem is increasing competition around SMB payments.
Zachary Miller | July 26, 2021
Podcasts
‘It’s all about embedding financial solutions at a customer’s point of need’: Plaid and Accenture on the future of embedded finance
- Embedded finance is enabling new players from outside of finance to offer financing products.
- Plaid and Accenture have released research on embedded finance, its roots and history, and where it's headed.
Zachary Miller | July 23, 2021
Data
‘Leveling the playing field’: Could rent reporting pave a path to greater financial inclusion?
- Timely rent payments aren't taken into consideration by credit bureaus, missing an opportunity to score thin- or no-file people.
- Rent reporting could turn out to be a solution.
Rivka Abramson | July 22, 2021
Finance Everywhere
Cheat Sheet: Apple’s interest in the buy now, pay later space takes shape with Apple Pay Later
- Bloomberg reported that Apple is building a native BNPL solution for Apple Pay.
- Goldman Sachs will power the loans for Apple’s point-of-sale financing solution.
Shehzil Zahid | July 22, 2021
Member Exclusive
‘With Square Banking, we’ve reimagined the financial system for small business owners’: Square launches Square Banking
- Square received an industrial bank charter.
- Now the financial technology firm has released a suite of saving, payments, money movement, and financing products.
Zachary Miller | July 21, 2021