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Finextra Research | February 27, 2020

Today, Mastercard and myPOS, a pan-European fintech, signed a strategic partnership agreement to promote card payment solutions to SMEs across Europe. Working together, the partnership will raise awareness among small businesses of the innovative solutions to accept card transactions; designed to meet their needs at a price that fits their budget. SMEs underpin the European economy, representing 99% of all businesses, but, traditionally, the ability to pay by card in such businesses has been var...

UC Today | April 21, 2020

Employees and team members working from home? You’re not alone. Even without pandemics like the coronavirus to think about, remote working trends are on the rise. Today’s small businesses have dozens of ways to benefit from a distributed lifestyle. After all, when your team members aren’t coming into the office, you have less money to spend on overheads, access to greater productivity, and all of the scalability of the cloud. Still, creating a remote working strategy does come ...

Dallas Hotelier | April 24, 2020

Three publicly traded companies overseen by Dallas hotelier Monty Bennett have borrowed $58.7 million under a program aimed at helping small businesses through the coronavirus pandemic, and that may be just a start. "The Company anticipates receiving additional PPP Loans," asset and hotel management company Ashford Inc. said on Wednesday as it reported the receipt of $12.8 million in Paycheck Protection Program loans for six of its subsidiaries. Two real estate investment...

PR Newswire | April 02, 2020

As a result of the coronavirus pandemic, brick-and-mortar retailers are closing their physical doors, and economic data1 shows that half have only enough cash to survive for 27 days without new money coming in. In light of this situation, people everywhere are searching for ways to support the businesses in their community and beyond. Today, eBay is launching "Up & Running," an accelerator program specifically designed to help retailers without an e-commerce presence transition to ...