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HUB Retirement And Private Wealth | March 30, 2021

HUB Retirement and Private Wealth (HUB RPW), a division of Hub International Limited (HUB), declared today the dispatch of HUB Retirement Select, a comprehensive solution for small-to mid-sized businesses searching for conveniences customarily stood to enormous associations, packaged into an improved, single retirement plan solution. "Today, employers are asked to do more to support their employees' health and financial wellbeing and provide a clearer path to retirement,&...

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Pensa Systems | December 29, 2022

On December 22, 2022, Pensa Systems, a frontrunner in the field of automated retail shelf intelligence, announced the debut of its facings optimization solution, which will assist consumer packaged goods (CPG) brands in increasing their revenue through enhanced retail shelf facings optimization. The term "shelf facings" refers to the number of a product's units that are visible from the front of a retail shelf. In grocery retail, the rivalry among CPG brands for faci...

PYMNTS.com | April 08, 2020

Small businesses overwhelmed U.S. financial institutions as they scrambled to apply for Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loans under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act. When the program went live on Friday (April 3), only two FIs, Bank of America and JPMorgan Chase, had been able to begin accepting applications — Bank of America saw a whopping $6 billion worth of applications in only a few hours, ending Friday with $32.6 billion in applications. It was a shaky ...

Small Business Administration (SBA) | June 11, 2020

As of Friday, May 22, 2020, the Small Business Administration (SBA) released the second version of the Interim Final Rules pertaining to the guidelines on the SBA loan review process. Then one week later, senate passes house bill on June 3rd which again changed the rules on PPP Forgiveness. The everchanging landscape has lenders and borrowers concerned about submitting PPP Forgiveness Applications. LQD Business Finance, a tech-enabled commercial lender recognized that the complicated Paycheck Pr...