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Business Wire | March 24, 2020

Fifth Third Bank, National Association, today provided additional detail on immediate steps it is taking to help customers impacted by the pandemic, augmenting its prior announcement last week to include new small business customer-centric provisions. “We understand that many of our small businesses are struggling right now to meet immediate needs,” said Greg D. Carmichael, chairman, president and CEO of Fifth Third Bancorp. “We are proactively taking steps to help lessen the f...

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BMO | August 29, 2022

BMO Financial Group and global cloud-based accounting platform, Xero, are making it easier for business customers to run and grow their business with the introduction of automatic transaction synchronization. Coming later this year, BMO customers using Online Banking for Business will be able to seamlessly send daily bank feeds to their Xero account. For BMO, this is one in a series of partnerships that enable customers to tailor their banking services to their day-to-day operations and workflow...

PR Newswire | February 12, 2020

Taxfyle is proud to announce that starting this month, millions of entrepreneurs and small-business owners who rely on FreshBooks to manage and grow their businesses will gain access to Taxfyle's leading on-demand accounting services. By integrating Taxfyle within the FreshBooks platform, users get an all-in-one business management service that streamlines all essential financial and bookkeeping functions. Founded in 2015, Taxfyle set out to transform professional tax prep with an easy-to-us...

Biz2Credit | October 06, 2020

Small business loan approval percentages at big banks ($10 billion+ in assets) dropped slightly from 13.6% in August to 13.5% in September, indicative of the struggles that small businesses are facing, according to the latest Biz2Credit Small Business Lending Index™ released today. The Biz2Credit Small Business Lending Index figures do not reflect approval of Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loans approved by the SBA and the Treasury. PPP lending ended on August 8 after providing nearly 5...