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Fed Survey: Loan Standards Ease For Smaller Firms
Loans // August 05, 2019

A survey of bank officers published on Monday (Aug. 5) showed loan standards on commercial and industrial loans to both large and mid-sized firms during the second quarter of 2019 didn’t change, and standards were eased on smaller firms, according to a report by Reuters....

Lloyds Taps Optal To Promote Commercial Card Adoption
B2B Payments // July 17, 2019

B2B payments and accounts receivable solution provider Optal is collaborating with Lloyds Bank, the companies announced Tuesday (July 16). Lloyds Bank will connect its own commercial clients to Optal’s B2B transaction optimization solutions with a focus on helping those clients’ B2B vendors accept card payments...

Google’s Drone Delivery Unit Wing Gets Nod By FAA
Google // April 24, 2019

Wing, Google’s drone delivery unit, received approval to use drones to deliver packages by the Federal Aviation Administration on Tuesday (April 24). The New York Times, citing the FAA, reported Wing was given the nod to deliver packages commercially. The company has been testing delivery...

Space: The Final Travel Commerce Frontier
Retail // March 23, 2019

“Space: the final frontier. These are the voyages of the Starship Enterprise. Its continuing mission: to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no one has gone before.” – Gene Roddenberry If Helen of Troy had...

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Fed Survey: Loan Standards Ease For Smaller Firms

August 05, 2019
A survey of bank officers published on Monday (Aug. 5) showed loan standards on commercial and industrial loans to both large and mid-sized firms during the second quarter of 2019 didn’t change, and standards were eased on smaller firms, according to a report by Reuters. The U.S. Federal Reserve’s query of high-level loan officers also […]

Google’s Drone Delivery Unit Wing Gets Nod By FAA

April 24, 2019
Wing, Google’s drone delivery unit, received approval to use drones to deliver packages by the Federal Aviation Administration on Tuesday (April 24). The New York Times, citing the FAA, reported...

Visa Unveils Detailed Payment Data For Amazon’s Business Customers

April 11, 2017
Anyone who’s worked in corporate America for longer than a second can understand the agonizing annoyance at entering in every item purchased on a company credit card. Amazon is looking...