Sections
SMB
View the latest news, analysis and trends in main street small business, their digital shift and key insights from main street businesses and innovators
-
NewsToday In Payments: Shake Shack To Give Back $10M PPP...
In today’s top news, Shake Shack said it would return the $10 million Paycheck...
-
CoronavirusMain Street USA: 58 Percent Of Main Street SMB Retailers...
The Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) began accepting applications on April 3. Lawmakers and business...
-
CoronavirusUS Senate Fails To Pass Additional SMB Aid
A federal measure to provide additional relief for small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) hurt...
-
LoansFed Bets Trillions In SMB Lending That Consumers Will Return
A quick recovery may be in the cards. But so might a “false start.”...
-
DisbursementsTrōv: Why Insurers Still Cling To The Paper Check
The global spread of the new coronavirus has had a wide and varied impact...
-
CoronavirusNEW DATA: 60 Percent Of US Consumers Now Live Paycheck-To-Paycheck
The COVID-19 pandemic has triggered an unprecedented wave of business closures, placing millions out...
-
CoronavirusSBA Overwhelmed With Requests, May Cause Delay In SMB Loans
As businesses around the U.S. wait eagerly for loans from the $2 trillion stimulus...
-
EconomyNFIB Survey Shows SMB Optimism Slips Amid COVID-19
Recent surveys and data points show that the sanguine outlook held by small and...
-
EconomyThe COVID-19 Eclipse Darkens Main Street Commerce
The 1918 Influenza pandemic. The Great Depression. World War II. The 9/11 attacks. The...
-
LoansFed Plans New Facility For SMB PPP Loans
The Federal Reserve is collaborating with the Treasury Department to develop a new facility...
-
EconomySMBs Scramble As Bigger Firms Eye Piece Of The $349B...
In business, size matters. Larger firms, typically, have the capital cushion to weather economic shocks...
-
EconomyCan Stimulus Funds Battle Back The Main Street Cash Crunch?
By the numbers the news is not bright this week — pretty much no...
