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New Survey Finds U.S. Small Businesses Learning to Cope with the Changing Landscape

Latest report from Mercator Advisory Group's annual U.S. Small Business PaymentsInsights survey presents findings on small business attitudes and their banking habits.


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Jan 05, 2021, 14:00 ET

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BOSTON, Jan. 5, 2021 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Mercator Advisory Group's most recent Primary Data report, 2020 Small Business PaymentsInsights: SMB Attitudes and Banking- Charting a New Course, based on the company's annual Small Business PaymentsInsights survey conducted in Spring 2020, reveals that small businesses continue to trust their banks, but are more and more looking for advice, wisdom—and credit—from outside sources. Satisfaction with their primary bank's commitment to small businesses remains very high at 84%. Furthermore, they are looking to a broader range of individuals for advice in running their business beyond their primary financial institution. Also, four in 10 (39%) are looking for a larger credit line than they currently have which is up from the 32% reported last year.

Usage of small business charge cards and small business debit is increasing year over year. Business debit card use has increased from 34% in 2019 to 42% in 2020, and charge card use grew from 23% to 31%. Small businesses may be moving some of their credit card transactions to other payment types in order to avoid revolving credit.

The pandemic has brought a new perspective to many businesses. They are looking for advice from a wider variety of individuals as they navigate the tough times. Despite the upheavals that 2020 brought, a majority of small businesses surveyed still have plans to grow their business in the future.

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While 2020 has been a hard year for all, small business as a category was particularly hard hit. That said, not all small businesses were negatively affected by the pandemic; some even thrived. When this survey was conducted in April of this year (the relative early days of the pandemic in retrospect), one-quarter (24%) of SMBs surveyed reported that the pandemic had positively affected their business, and another 17% reported they were unaffected. The remaining 59% were negatively impacted.

SMB Attitudes and Banking- Charting a New Course is the third of three reports summarizing the results of the 2020 Small Business PaymentsInsights survey, the fourth annual survey of small businesses fielded by Mercator Advisory Group. This was a web-based survey of 2,000 U.S. small businesses (between $100,000 and $10 million annual sales) regarding their use of payments and banking services.

"The pandemic has brought a new perspective to many businesses, they are looking for more advice from a wider variety of individuals as they navigate the tough times. I think it is important to note that despite the upheavals that 2020 brought, a majority of the small businesses we surveyed still have plans to grow their business in the future," notes the author of this report, Peter Reville, Director, Primary Data Services at Mercator Advisory Group.

Highlights of this 2020 Small Business PaymentsInsights report include:

  • U.S. small businesses' attitudes toward technology
  • Attitudes toward their business and the handling of payments
  • Sources of advice
  • Primary financial institution satisfaction
  • Branch use
  • Banking products and services used
  • Online banking services used and interest in using
  • The use of online lenders and reasons for use

Companies mentioned are: Capital, Kabbage, Lending Club, OnDeck, and Prosper.

Subscribers to Mercator Advisory Group's 2020 Small Business PaymentsInsights have access to these reports as well as survey crosstabs, PowerPoint slides of the report exhibits, and the option of requesting custom queries from the survey data.

For more information and media inquiries, please call Mercator Advisory Group's main line: 1-781-419-1700, or send email to [email protected].

For free industry news, opinions, research, company information and more, visit us at http://www.PaymentsJournal.com.

Follow us on Twitter @ http://twitter.com/MercatorAdvisor.

About Mercator Advisory Group
Mercator Advisory Group is the leading independent research and advisory services firm exclusively focused on the payments and banking industries. We deliver pragmatic and timely research and advice designed to help our clients uncover the most lucrative opportunities to maximize revenue growth and contain costs. Our clients range from the world's largest payment issuers, acquirers, processors, merchants and associations to leading technology providers and investors. Mercator Advisory Group is also the publisher of the online payments and banking news and information portal PaymentsJournal.com.

Media Contact

Karen Yetter, Mercator Advisory Group, 781-419-1700, [email protected]

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