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Main Street On Lockdown: The COVID-19 Cash Chasm
Main Street On Lockdown: The COVID-19 Cash Chasm
August 25, 2020  |  Coronavirus

The Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) relief effort began accepting applications from small to mid-sized businesses (SMBs), which employ roughly half of the United States workforce,...

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Main Street On Lockdown: How SMBs Are Coping With The Economic Fallout Of COVID-19
Main Street On Lockdown: How SMBs Are Coping With The Economic Fallout Of COVID-19
August 21, 2020  |  Coronavirus

Consumers confronting the COVID-19 outbreak are buying less and saving what they can, and retailers’ revenues are plummeting as a result. This is leaving many...

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Barrons: Online Lender Kabbage Shopping For Buyers
Barrons: Online Lender Kabbage Shopping For Buyers
August 04, 2020  |  Partnerships / Acquisitions

FinTech Kabbage could be seeking a sale, and in doing so, could look to garner up to $1 billion, according to sources quoted by Barron’s....

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Rubio: Revamped PPP, SMB Loan Programs Aim To Smooth Out ‘Uneven Recovery’
Rubio: Revamped PPP, SMB Loan Programs Aim To Smooth Out ‘Uneven Recovery’
August 02, 2020  |  Loans

Senator Marco Rubio of Florida, who spearheaded the landmark Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) to help small businesses survive the coronavirus pandemic, now has to organize...

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PayPal’s Plan For Seamless, Touch-Free QR Code Commerce
PayPal’s Plan For Seamless, Touch-Free QR Code Commerce
July 31, 2020  |  eCommerce

From complex biopharma work on a vaccine to a galaxy of cloud solution providers harnessing artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning, the commercial response to...

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Today In Payments: Atlanta Fed Warns Outbreaks Could Stall Recovery; Big Tech CEOs To Testify In Antitrust Probe
Today In Payments: Atlanta Fed Warns Outbreaks Could Stall Recovery; Big Tech CEOs To Testify...
July 07, 2020  |  News

In today’s top news, a Federal Reserve official warns the surge in coronavirus cases could dampen economic recovery, and the CEOs of the four biggest...

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SBA, Treasury Fail To Release PPP Loan Data
SBA, Treasury Fail To Release PPP Loan Data
July 06, 2020  |  Loans

The Treasury Department and Small Business Administration (SBA) don’t seem likely to release the data this week on Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loans as they’d...

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Currencycloud, Ripple Partner For Easier Worldwide B2B Payments
Currencycloud, Ripple Partner For Easier Worldwide B2B Payments
July 06, 2020  |  B2B Payments

Currencycloud, which works in global B2B cross-border payments, will be working with enterprise blockchain solution Ripple on new solutions for fast global payments, a press release...

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This Week In Payments: Saving Small Business
This Week In Payments: Saving Small Business
June 26, 2020  |  Innovation

The first half of 2020 has been rough on small businesses of all kinds, whether they had to close their doors due to public-health orders...

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