In today’s top news in digital-first banking, Banque de France has completed its central bank digital currency (CBDC) test, while roughly 60,000 loans were distributed during...
New Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) data from the Small Business Administration (SBA) indicates that aid moved to small businesses as well as bigger companies. The...
Wells Fargo has fired over 100 employees for allegedly improperly collecting COVID-19 relief funds, according to sources quoted by Bloomberg. The staffers reportedly defrauded the...
More than 5 million small- to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) received $525 billion from the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP), the popular federal rescue initiative passed by...
With Main Street small- to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) suffering through a downturn more ruinous than any in living memory, many that make it will do...
Microbusinesses are uniquely vulnerable to the pandemic’s negative financial impacts. Seventy-five percent of SMBs — including microbusinesses — in one recent survey reported that their...
Sept. 11, 2020, marks 225 days since the coronavirus was first declared a pandemic on March 11, lasting longer than most of the businesses on...
The U.S. government’s Economic Injury Disaster Loan (EIDL) program, plagued by delays and fraud, has created attention for a firm that netted around $800 million...
A $20 billion federal initiative to provide emergency funding to small businesses is out of cash. The U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) announced in a...