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Small-Business Payment Disruptors

How Merchant Services Players Can Tap Into Changing Competitive Dynamics and Tech Innovation

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About This Report
Increasing digitization among the 32 million US small businesses is changing the competitive landscape and forcing banks, acquirers, and fintechs to invest in next-generation features. These features range from payments and value-added services to outreach.
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Executive Summary

The combination of increasing payment and operational digitization and rising merchant services satisfaction among small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) is forcing banks, acquirers, and fintechs to evolve their offerings. To compete in the crowded market—and earn the volume and revenue opportunity this customer base presents—merchant services players will need to ramp up innovation across payments, value-added services, and outreach and marketing.

3 KEY QUESTIONS THIS REPORT WILL ANSWER

  1. How will merchant services providers be affected by changes in the SMB landscape?
  2. Which classes of providers are best positioned to succeed and meet the specific needs of SMB owners?
  3. What are key areas of innovation and best practices across payments, value-added services, and outreach?

WHAT’S IN THIS REPORT? Based on data and interviews with key industry figures, we evaluate the major groups of providers competing to serve small businesses, examine wholesale changes in the approach to SMB merchant services, identify specific areas of investment set to dictate innovation in 2022, and spotlight best practices for payment service providers (PSPs).

KEY STAT: Nearly 7 in 10 small businesses rank interoperability as “very” or “extremely” important, underscoring the benefits of an ecosystem-driven approach for merchant services providers competing for share of the market.

Here’s what’s in the full report

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    Table of Contents

    1. Executive Summary
    2. Key Points
    3. Introduction
    4. The Shifting Opportunity in Small Business
    1. The Competitive Landscape
    2. How Providers Can Best Serve Small Businesses in the Current Climate
    3. Insider Intelligence Interviews
    4. Read Next
    1. Sources
    2. Media Gallery

    Interviewed for This Report

    Brad Brodigan
    JPMorgan Chase
    Managing Director and Global Head of SMB Payments
    Interviewed March 4, 2022
    Brian Dammeir
    Adyen
    President, North America
    Interviewed February 28, 2022
    Jeff Dickerson
    Fiserv
    Head of Clover Solutions
    Interviewed March 2, 2022
    Aparna Khurjekar
    Verizon
    President, Verizon Business Markets
    Interviewed March 7, 2022
    Saumil Mehta
    Square
    Head of Point-of-Sale
    Interviewed March 4, 2022
    Mark Monaco
    Bank of America
    Head of Enterprise Payments
    Interviewed March 3, 2022
    Kathryn Petralia
    Kabbage
    Co-founder
    Interviewed March 4, 2022
    Afshin Yazdian
    Paysafe
    CEO, US Acquiring
    Interviewed March 1, 2022

    authors

    Jaime Toplin

    Contributors

    Tyler Brown
    Senior Analyst
    Daniel Decea
    Researcher, Financial Services
    Reuben Loewy
    Director, Report Editing
    David Morris
    Principal Analyst
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