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36% of Global SMB Buyers Plan to Use FinTech Payment Providers

Sixty-four percent of internationally active SMBs used traditional banks for cross-border supplier payments in 2025, and 69% expect to use them in 2026. That projected increase shows that FinTech growth does not require a wholesale migration away from established institutions.

CANONICAL SOURCEPYMNTS
DATE VERIFICATIONVerified: July 22, 2026
CAPTUREDJul 23, 10:36 AM
EVIDENCE TIERB1 · Independent / regulatory corroboration
TRACE ID36-of-global-smb-buyers-plan-to-use-fintech-payment-pr-88597cff
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36% of Global SMB Buyers Plan to Use FinTech Payment Providers

Evidence tier: B1 Evidence type: Independent payments trade media report Source: PYMNTS Published: 2026-07-22 Captured: 2026-07-23T14:36:11.300Z

Source summary

Sixty-four percent of internationally active SMBs used traditional banks for cross-border supplier payments in 2025, and 69% expect to use them in 2026. That projected increase shows that FinTech growth does not require a wholesale migration away from established institutions.

Why it matters

This signal matters because stablecoin distribution, regulation and settlement are increasingly shaping cross-border treasury, merchant acceptance and programmable payment infrastructure.

Key numbers

No independently checkable key number was extracted from this report.

Topics and entities

  • Industry lane: Web3 & stablecoin payments
  • Entities: Mastercard
  • Web3 payments
  • Cross-border payments

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Date evidence: Automatically verified from article:published_time: 2026-07-22T08:00:41+00:00

First-party corroboration

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