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Business Wire | March 06, 2020

The CBIZ Small Business Employment Index (“SBEI”) reported reasonably flat hiring in February, with a seasonally adjusted decline of 0.39%. The CBIZ SBEI tracks payroll and hiring trends for over 3,500 companies that have 300 or fewer employees, providing broad insight into small business trends. The February 2020 data reflects a historical trend for the month’s numbers over the last 10 years, with winter weather typically contributing to a slowdown in economic activity. This y...

Finance

VeriCheck, Inc. | January 07, 2022

VeriCheck announced its acquisition of Applied Payments, LLC, dba ACHWorks (ACHWorks). VeriCheck, Inc. is a market leader in payments and financial technologies. ACHWorks, on the other hand, is a technology business and a supplier of Automated Clearing House (ACH) payment services. VCI will merge ACHWorks' personnel and technology to provide clients with a comprehensive suite of payments and fintech solutions that enables businesses to develop. The company will integrate all t...

PRWeb | February 04, 2020

Kabbage, Inc., a data and technology company providing small businesses cash flow solutions, launched access to custom loans for Kabbage Payments customers. The new lending product gives U.S. small businesses more control over short-term funding needs. Integrating Kabbage Funding with Kabbage Payments marks the first of many new solutions from Kabbage as it expands to help small businesses efficiently analyze and manage their cash flow. With custom loans, Kabbage Payments customers choose any te...

Management

Globenewswire | April 13, 2023

The U.S. Small Business Administration has finalized two rules to address persistent gaps in access to capital impacting small business owners in underserved communities as part of the Biden-Harris Administration’s effort to grow the economy from the middle out and bottom-up, not top-down. The final rules grant permanence to SBA’s program for nonprofit mission lenders, remove outdated limits on non-depository lender participation, increase opportunities for employee ownership, ...