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PayPal’s Plan For Seamless, Touch-Free QR Code Commerce
PayPal’s Plan For Seamless, Touch-Free QR Code Commerce
July 31, 2020  |  eCommerce

From complex biopharma work on a vaccine to a galaxy of cloud solution providers harnessing artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning, the commercial response to...

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Today In Payments: Atlanta Fed Warns Outbreaks Could Stall Recovery; Big Tech CEOs To Testify In Antitrust Probe
Today In Payments: Atlanta Fed Warns Outbreaks Could Stall Recovery; Big Tech CEOs To Testify...
July 07, 2020  |  News

In today’s top news, a Federal Reserve official warns the surge in coronavirus cases could dampen economic recovery, and the CEOs of the four biggest...

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SBA, Treasury Fail To Release PPP Loan Data
SBA, Treasury Fail To Release PPP Loan Data
July 06, 2020  |  Loans

The Treasury Department and Small Business Administration (SBA) don’t seem likely to release the data this week on Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loans as they’d...

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Currencycloud, Ripple Partner For Easier Worldwide B2B Payments
Currencycloud, Ripple Partner For Easier Worldwide B2B Payments
July 06, 2020  |  B2B Payments

Currencycloud, which works in global B2B cross-border payments, will be working with enterprise blockchain solution Ripple on new solutions for fast global payments, a press release...

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This Week In Payments: Saving Small Business
This Week In Payments: Saving Small Business
June 26, 2020  |  Innovation

The first half of 2020 has been rough on small businesses of all kinds, whether they had to close their doors due to public-health orders...

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Google Adds Digital Offerings To Boost India’s SMBs
Google Adds Digital Offerings To Boost India’s SMBs
June 25, 2020  |  Google

Google is ramping up its small business offerings in India with newly bundled digital services and a system to let financial institutions offer business loans...

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The Negative Trickle Down Effect of COVID’s (Wealthy) Consumer Spending Pause
The Negative Trickle Down Effect of COVID’s (Wealthy) Consumer Spending Pause
June 22, 2020  |  Economy

Call it the trickle down theory – in reverse. To be clear: We’re not talking about the economic theory that posits that incenting business and relatively wealthier...

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Today In Payments: Proposal Would Allow SMBs To Get Another PPP Loan; Alibaba, JD.com Net $136B In Annual Shopping Event
Today In Payments: Proposal Would Allow SMBs To Get Another PPP Loan; Alibaba, JD.com Net...
June 19, 2020  |  News

In today’s top news, Congress is considering passing another round of PPP loans for certain small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs), and Alibaba and JD.com recorded...

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Amazon, Goldman Sachs Launch SMB Credit Line
Amazon, Goldman Sachs Launch SMB Credit Line
June 10, 2020  |  Amazon

In what is seen as the latest marriage between tech and Wall Street, Amazon has partnered with Goldman Sachs to launch a digital credit line...

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