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The Paypers | April 07, 2020

Kabbage has announced it is collaborating with Facebook to help small businesses connect with local customers to generate income during the COVID-19 crisis. Small businesses can sign up on www.helpsmallbusiness.com to sell online gift certificates through Kabbage PaymentsTM and choose to automatically list them on Facebook. They can discover more ways to support their business through Facebook’s Business Resource Hub. Facebook will surface gift-certificate offers from participating local b...

FINANCE

PR Newswire | September 27, 2023

BMO today announced the expansion of its Zero Barriers to Business program for Black, Latino, Native, and Women-owned businesses across the bank's expanded footprint. The program aims to break down barriers for historically underserved and marginalized groups through inclusive banking products, services, and resources as part of BMO EMpower 2.0 – the bank's more than $40 billion communit...

Small Business Trends

Globenewswire | June 02, 2023

Today, Administrator Isabella Casillas Guzman, head of the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) and the voice for America’s 33 million small businesses in President Biden’s Cabinet, opened a window for new applications for Small Business Lending Company (SBLC) licenses for the first time in over 40 years. New applicants may apply between June 1, 2023, and July 31, 2023. SBA approves Small Business Lending Company Licenses for selected non-depository lenders to in...

Ruth | April 24, 2020

The parent company of Ruth’s Chris Steak House, which has been at the center of a national firestorm after it claimed $20 million from a fund meant to help small business survive the coronavirus pandemic, is returning the money. The news, first reported by the Wall Street Journal, broke hours after the U.S. Treasury Department updated its guidance for the “Paycheck Protection Program” to say that companies applying for the potentially forgivable loans “must certify...