Small Business (SMB) stories - Page 3

British Business Bank lifts Oxbury's Tier 2 backing to GBP £35 million as the specialist farm lender nears a 10% share of new agricultural loans.

Cavell Summit Europe highlights how platform-led buying, data sovereignty and global expansion are reshaping service provider strategies.

Starling Bank says sole traders are embracing AI for quick tax guidance as Making Tax Digital rules prompt a shift to digital accounting tools.

Xero's Anthropic tie-up deepens finance software AI split as groups weigh integrated platforms against agent tools that work across multiple systems.

Capacity, not capability, is emerging as partners' biggest headache as PSTN migration threatens support, growth and customer relationships.

TeamSystem accelerates European push with acquisitions in France and Türkiye as it targets SMEs amid digital tax and invoicing shifts.

Making Tax Digital is forcing UK SMEs to confront broken finance workflows as quarterly reporting pushes demand for real-time data and open banking.

Aspire taps J.P. Morgan Payments for cross-border FX as the Singapore fintech expands wallet conversions in SGD, USD, GBP, EUR and HKD.

PayPal brings payment links into Canva for 265 million users, letting creators, entrepreneurs and small firms sell from designs with QR codes and checkouts.

Seekr and Arcas team up to sell explainable AI tools to European mid-sized firms, as the EU AI Act pushes demand for audit-ready systems.

Bucharest crowned Europe's most startup-friendly city as London ranks 69th globally, with Eastern European hubs sweeping the top three.

Oboloo offers SMEs and charities a free cloud-based procurement platform with alerts, sourcing tools and savings tracking to curb wasted spend.

Hiscox says UK SMEs often face repeat ransomware demands after paying, with many still forced to rebuild systems and suffer fresh disruption.

Cloudflare and GoDaddy team up to give site owners more control over AI crawlers while backing open standards to verify agent identity.

Cambridge startup BlueProof shortlisted for UK StartUp Awards after 3D event platform trial draws thousands at New Zealand festival.

UK SMEs stick with high street banks despite challenger rivals offering far higher savings rates and better protection options, Flagstone finds.

Synology extends BeeStation Plus with local camera monitoring for homes and micro-businesses, offering AI alerts and no subscription fees.

AI agents prompt accounting firms to redesign bookkeeping and tax workflows as junior staff tasks are automated and human oversight stays central.

Apograph's £60-a-month firewall plan helps clients dodge emergency refresh costs, cut downtime and strengthen security across 1,500 endpoints.

Survey finds most OT outages in industry and critical infrastructure cost up to GBP £5 million, as firms fear nation-state attacks and long delays to detection.