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US House Dems Craft New $2.4 Trillion Stimulus Package

US House Dems Craft New $2.4 Trillion Stimulus Package
US House Dems Craft New $2.4 Trillion Stimulus Package
September 24, 2020  |  Economy

House Democrats are back with a new stimulus proposal for $2.4 trillion, around $1 trillion less than the previous one projected, according to CNBC. Get...

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Banks, SMBs Push For Simplified PPP Loan Forgiveness
Banks, SMBs Push For Simplified PPP Loan Forgiveness
September 24, 2020  |  Loans

Small- to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) are reporting difficulty with the forgiveness aspect of the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) as that feature opens up, according to...

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Bitcoin Daily: Bill Proposes National Oversight For Crypto Exchanges; Russia Seeks Criminal Penalty For Not Reporting Crypto
Bitcoin Daily: Bill Proposes National Oversight For Crypto Exchanges; Russia Seeks Criminal Penalty For Not...
September 24, 2020  |  Bitcoin

The Digital Commodity Exchange Act of 2020, which was proposed by a U.S. representative Thursday (Sept. 24), could put digital currency exchanges under one national...

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Amazon’s Latest Devices Zero In On The Power Of The Connected Home
Amazon’s Latest Devices Zero In On The Power Of The Connected Home
September 24, 2020  |  Amazon

There were the things everyone expected to see at Amazon’s hardware event on Thursday (Sept. 24), like new Echo devices and Fire TV upgrades. And...

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Sensibill Rolls Out New Tool For Automatic Receipt Extraction
Sensibill Rolls Out New Tool For Automatic Receipt Extraction
September 24, 2020  |  B2B Payments

Sensibill, which provides SKU-level data and financial tools for companies, has launched Receipt Extraction API, a machine learning (ML)-based solution that automates and streamlines the...

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Aavenir Adds More Efficient Data Extraction Tools To Invoiceflow
Aavenir Adds More Efficient Data Extraction Tools To Invoiceflow
September 24, 2020  |  B2B Payments

Source-to-Pay Software as a Service (SaaS) provider Aavenir announced an update for its Invoiceflow application, which will now speed up automatic invoicing even more, a...

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NRF: More Than Half Of Retailers Received Rent Relief Amid COVID-19
NRF: More Than Half Of Retailers Received Rent Relief Amid COVID-19
September 24, 2020  |  Real Estate

Retail sales have seen very modest year-over-year gains since June, but many brick-and-mortar operations continue to suffer amid the pandemic. Get the Full Story Complete...

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Survey Finds Job Losses Hit Minorities, Lower-Income Americans Harder
Survey Finds Job Losses Hit Minorities, Lower-Income Americans Harder
September 24, 2020  |  Economy

The economic fallout of the coronavirus, now six months in, has continued to hit lower-income Americans the hardest, according to a new Pew Research Center...

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AICPA, Biz2Credit Launch PPP Portal For CPAs To Help SMBs
AICPA, Biz2Credit Launch PPP Portal For CPAs To Help SMBs
September 24, 2020  |  B2B Payments

To help certified public accountant (CPA) firms advising small- to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) on Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) forgiveness and additional financing choices, the American...

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