Inside Small Business Banking
Insights and perspectives that get you up to speed on the changing landscape of small business banking.
Key takeaways: Roughly half of small businesses have some form of capital gap, according to the Federal Reserve's 2026 Report on Employer Firms. The demand is small-dollar. 59% of financing applicants sought less than $100,000, a range traditional loan origination systems ...
Key takeaways: Signal Feed is a new view in the Autobooks Hub that surfaces notable transaction activity and trends across your small business portfolio, without your team digging through the data themselves. Every signal is categorized as an Opportunity, Risk, Notable ...
Key takeaways: A financial institution has never had a tool built to manage its small business portfolio. Bankers stretch general-purpose CRMs and pull static reports out of digital banking, neither designed for small business. Autobooks is one connected system with two ...
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Supporting Small Business | Lending
Small-dollar lending decides where small business deposits live
Key takeaways: Roughly half of small businesses have some form of capital gap, according to the Federal Reserve's 2026 Report on Employer Firms. The demand is small-dollar. 59% of ...
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Small Business Banking
Every signal now comes with a next step
Key takeaways: Signal Feed is a new view in the Autobooks Hub that surfaces notable transaction activity and trends across your small business portfolio, without your team digging ...
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Small Business Banking
See and serve your small businesses at scale
Key takeaways: A financial institution has never had a tool built to manage its small business portfolio. Bankers stretch general-purpose CRMs and pull static reports out of ...
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Transforming Digital | Product Innovation
Bill Pay Just Got More Useful
A feature that has not changed in twenty years is about to For most consumers and small businesses, Bill Pay has looked the same since they signed up for online banking. Schedule ...
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Transforming Digital | Industry Trends
Small businesses want invoicing where they already bank
Key takeaways 61% of small businesses now send electronic invoices. Only 18% send them through their bank. Those numbers have moved less than five points in four years. Javelin ...
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Transforming Digital
Payment timing is an operating system problem
Payment timing isn't a payments problem. It's an operating system problem. Mastercard's Mark Barnett is right that timing is the currency small businesses actually trade in — but ...
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Supporting Small Business
The Case for a Connected Small Business Strategy
Small business banking is one of the most valuable segments a financial institution can serve. It is also one of the most underserved, not because banks lack the intent, but ...
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Supporting Small Business
The Fed just changed the math on small business lending
Federal banking regulators have proposed changes to how much capital financial institutions must hold against small business loans. Under the proposal, risk weights for qualifying ...
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Transforming Digital | Supporting Small Business
It’s not about only about lending. It’s about connection.
Earlier this month, our CEO Steve Robert wrote about why Autobooks acquired MinuteLender. Steve goes deep on the lending economics, the data advantage financial institutions ...
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Supporting Small Business
Why Autobooks Acquired MinuteLender, by Steve Robert
This post is about why we acquired MinuteLender, what it means for the financial institutions we work with, and where I believe this takes us.
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Webinars | Financial Institutions | Small Business Banking
Build Your Small Business Flywheel: From Insight to Repeat Usage
Missed the webinar? Watch it here In short Most banks add small business capabilities but stall on adoption — insight alone doesn't move deposits. A 90-day flywheel turns insight ...
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Growing Revenue | Supporting Small Business | Gaining Perspective
Construction and Trades Reveal How Small Business Banking Actually Grows
Missed the webinar? Watch it here In short Construction and trades are 15–20% of small businesses in most local markets — and roughly $1.5T in annual spend. These businesses run ...