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Wells Fargo Sets Out Its $400M Plan For Small Business Aid
July 09, 2020

Wells Fargo has come up with details of how it will donate the $400 million in processing fees that it raked in from the U.S. Paycheck Protection Program. In a press release, the company said it would use its new Open for Business Fund “to engage...

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PPP Loans, Cash Crunches And Now, The Specter Of Public Shame
July 08, 2020

And now: Stimulus funding as a tool for public shaming. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content — no additional logins required. yesSubscribe to our daily newsletter, PYMNTS Today. By completing this...

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Wells Fargo On What It Will Take To Revive The SMB Economy
July 03, 2020

Small- and medium-sized businesses have been hit hard by the pandemic, but most are scrambling into digital pivots to blunt the impact of physical stores’ shutdowns, Colleen Taylor, executive vice president and head of merchant services at Wells Fargo, told Karen Webster during a recent...

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Payments Processors, Merchant Settlement and the SMB Cash Crunch
June 23, 2020

The pandemic has spurred a shift in the payments ecosystem, as businesses of all stripes have seen the need to keep cash in the till, to eye the ripple effects that may ripple across their supply chains — especially as disputes take shape. Get the...

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Data Show 42 Pct Of Small-Cap US Businesses Failing To Turn Profit
June 23, 2020

The number of small U.S. companies not turning a profit has reached an unfortunate historic high due to the coronavirus pandemic, the Financial Times reports. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content...

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Why Saving Main Street Will Take More Than Just More Money
June 22, 2020

The nonprofit Opportunity Fund — which makes loans to small businesses owned by low- and moderate-income immigrants, women and other underserved clientele — started 2020 fairly optimistically. The organization expected to make close to $10 million in loans every month, serving 3,000 to 4,000 small-...

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SMBs May Be On the Hook for Losses Amid Social Unrest
June 03, 2020

Amid the social unrest dominating the country at the moment, will small- to mid-sized businesses (SMBs) face crippling losses tied to looting? Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content — no additional...

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The Many Faces Of Main Street SMB Recovery
June 02, 2020

Try comparing the numbers of the COVID-19 economic asteroid hit to anything that came before, and it quickly becomes apparent that there is no apt comparison. Just under nine million Americans lost their jobs during the Great Recession of 2008, and it took about two...

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US Savings Rate Soars As Consumer Spending Sinks – A Bad Sign For SMBs
June 01, 2020

Not all that long ago, we were hoarding toilet paper and flour — eyeing the proverbial rainy day when we’d need what we’d saved, as the coronavirus upended daily life. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free...