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Business Wire | August 31, 2023

Elavon, a wholly owned subsidiary of U.S. Bank, is launching the next generation of talech software to help small business owners more efficiently run their businesses without the large upfront investment often needed to purchase a new payments system. The talech Terminal payment solution is a simple and powerful point-of-sale system that allows business owners to accept payments anywhere, anytime with various hardware options, including mobile/fixed hardware and in-store termin...

Finance

Voya Financial | February 25, 2022

Voya Financial, Inc., announced today, the launch of a new grant program to aid small businesses owned by individuals from underrepresented communities. The five recipients, all Black-owned, technology-based businesses, will each be awarded $10,000 to help them grow and thrive. “This inaugural grant program reflects our mission to make a secure financial future possible for everyone. Several of these startups are women-owned, all are Black-owned, and each one demonstrates a ...

Technology

Cisco | October 26, 2020

Cisco has signed Bluechip Infotech as a key partner of its small business program, which the vendor is launching in Australia. The small business solutions set is a portfolio of Cisco products targeted at fulfilling much of a small business's IT and networking needs. The partnership will allow Bluechip to extend the Cisco small business product lineup to the distie's channel partners....

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...