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PYMNTS | April 27, 2020

The race is on. The Small Business Administration (SBA) is set to take applications for the second round of the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) as of 10:30 a.m. on Monday (April 27). President Donald Trump signed the $484 billion COVID-19 rescue bill on Friday (April 24). It includes $310 billion in new money for the latest bailout. The first round of PPP funding ran out of cash within days of being released on April 3. “The PPP has supported more than 1.66 million s...

FINANCE

KeyBank | April 28, 2022

KeyBank launches the KeyBank Small Business Check-in, a new tool that helps small business clients assess where they currently stand financially, evaluate their goals, and discover how their banking partner can help open new opportunities toward their path forward. KeyBank is committed to helping small businesses in its local communities thrive, as demonstrated by the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP), where more than 70,000 SBA-approved loans were secured. By asking small busines...

Business Wire | September 08, 2020

Melio, a B2B payments company helping small businesses digitally manage their supplier payments, has raised $144m to reach more small businesses across the US as they shift to digital solutions to help manage the economic effects of Covid-19. Small businesses typically use a variety of different tools to manage supplier payments, with almost half of B2B payments carried out with paper checks. Melio’s digital accounts payable and receivable dashboard provides a single, integrated tool that ...

TECHNOLOGY

Smith.ai | November 17, 2021

Smith.ai, a leading virtual receptionist service, announced today the launch of new business intelligence (BI) tools to help businesses track and analyze phone call metadata. Smith.ai clients will now be able to view data obtained from phone calls in their own Call Dashboard in the form of graphs, pie charts, and tables, giving them a simple, intuitive way to evaluate the impact phone calls have on their business. The new dashboard features make it easy for clients to visualize who called, for w...