Small Business Economic Survival Amid The Coronavirus Pandemic
Small Business Economic Survival Amid The Coronavirus Pandemic
April 14, 2020  |  Today In Data

The SBA PPP rescue relief effort started taking applications from banks on behalf of their small business customers on April 3. Many of those small and medium-sized...

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COVID-19 Is Changing The Grocery Business
COVID-19 Is Changing The Grocery Business
April 14, 2020  |  Retail

Perhaps no retail category has been under as much pressure during the past six weeks than grocery. As the COVID-19 crisis hit in early March,...

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Related’s CEO Predicts People Will Go Back To Offices Before Malls
Related’s CEO Predicts People Will Go Back To Offices Before Malls
April 14, 2020  |  Retail

In a world after the coronavirus, consumers will have return to work before they go back to the mall per the owner of New York...

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KyckGlobal Teams With Visa Direct To Boost Push Payments For US Businesses
KyckGlobal Teams With Visa Direct To Boost Push Payments For US Businesses
April 14, 2020  |  B2B Payments

Atlanta-based KyckGlobal is working with Visa to boost the use of “push payments” to businesses. Push payments, which represent a growing market, typically bypass banks...

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The Gig Economy Gets Ready To Scale
The Gig Economy Gets Ready To Scale
April 14, 2020  |  Gig Economy

In the historical novel “Ivanhoe” (1819), Sir Walter Scott wrote of “free lances” to describe an army of professional soldiers for hire. The word “gig”...

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IMF Predicts COVID-19 Lockdown Will Crush Global Economy
IMF Predicts COVID-19 Lockdown Will Crush Global Economy
April 14, 2020  |  Economy

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has warned that the “Great Lockdown” of 2020 due to the coronavirus pandemic will result in the worst worldwide recession...

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Disbursements And The COVID-19 Moment
Disbursements And The COVID-19 Moment
April 14, 2020  |  Disbursements

If you thought checks were merely being tolerated before, COVID-19 alarm has rendered all paper instruments persona non grata, including cash. Are we witnessing the...

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PPP Won’t Fill Main Street SMBs’ Cash Gap
PPP Won’t Fill Main Street SMBs’ Cash Gap
April 14, 2020  |  Coronavirus

Main Street small businesses have differing timeframes as to when they expect to run out of operating cash, but they all see it coming. And...

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Navigating COVID-19 IV: Paycheck-to-Paycheck Life Gets More Dire By The Day
Navigating COVID-19 IV: Paycheck-to-Paycheck Life Gets More Dire By The Day
April 14, 2020  |  Coronavirus

Within a month of the announcement that COVID-19 was an official pandemic, the global economy – and America’s in particular – were already on the...

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