small business

What Lenders Are Learning About Emerging PPP Loan Fraud
What Lenders Are Learning About Emerging PPP Loan Fraud
May 12, 2020  |  Security & Fraud

In the mad dash to secure Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) funds, small businesses have faced confusion, anxiety and often a lack of clarity as to...

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Payoneer Teams With ANNA For Global SMB, Freelancer Payments
Payoneer Teams With ANNA For Global SMB, Freelancer Payments
May 11, 2020  |  B2B Payments

To help streamline global payments with artificial intelligence (AI), digital payment platform Payoneer has unveiled a partnership with banking and admin app ANNA. The tie-up...

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Deadline Looms For Five Firms To Return PPP Loans
Deadline Looms For Five Firms To Return PPP Loans
May 11, 2020  |  Loans

Five publicly traded companies have until midnight on Monday (May 11) to return their Payroll Protection Program (PPP) loans or explain why they should be...

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Confusion Reigns As PPP Loan ‘Guidance’ Grows, Deadlines Loom
Confusion Reigns As PPP Loan ‘Guidance’ Grows, Deadlines Loom
May 11, 2020  |  Loans

The Trump administration has piled vague and confusing guidance onto the unclear regulations of the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP), increasing tensions across the business world...

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PPP Program Still Has $125B Left
PPP Program Still Has $125B Left
May 08, 2020  |  Loans

President Donald Trump and Congress wasted no time refilling the Paycheck Protection Program’s (PPP) coffers after the popular loan initiative ran out of cash in...

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For SMBs, What Comes Next After The (Terrible) Unemployment Report?
For SMBs, What Comes Next After The (Terrible) Unemployment Report?
May 08, 2020  |  Economy

The number we’ll remember — 14.7 percent, the headline number for April U.S. unemployment — is the one we hope is a peak. But there are...

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Why SMBs Are Suddenly Reluctant To Apply For The SBA’s PPP Loan Program
Why SMBs Are Suddenly Reluctant To Apply For The SBA’s PPP Loan Program
May 08, 2020  |  Loans

The Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) is going back to court, this time over the new guidance handed out by the federal government on April 29...

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Footwear Company Allbirds Latest To Return PPP Loan
Footwear Company Allbirds Latest To Return PPP Loan
May 08, 2020  |  Loans

Allbirds, the New Zealand-American footwear company, will return its Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loan. In an interview on CNBC’s “Squawk Box” on Friday (May 8), Co-Founder...

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Saving Main Street: Advocacy Groups Propose New Government Relief Programs
Saving Main Street: Advocacy Groups Propose New Government Relief Programs
May 08, 2020  |  Retail

The crisis is hardly over, but post-pandemic reality is setting in for Main Street retail. Government program subsidies and loans have been snapped up by...

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