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MANAGEMENT

Next Insurance | October 22, 2020

Next Insurance, the fastest growing digital insurtech company transforming small business insurance and Intuit Inc. (Nasdaq: INTU), today announced that they have teamed up to simplify the insurance purchasing process for millions of small businesses. This integration will enable QuickBooks users to seamlessly obtain a customized quote and easily purchase General Liability, Professional Liability and Workers' Compensation coverage from Next Insurance with a few clicks of a button, directly f...

Post-Bulletin | January 15, 2020

SCORE’s Acting CEO, Bridget Weston, shared her message to small businesses last week by looking back at last year and looking forward to 2020. She summarized: "By all accounts, the economy did well in 2019, and it continues to hum along at a decent pace in early 2020. GDP growth, unemployment, core inflation and manufacturing all moved in encouraging directions in 2019, and for most small businesses, that’s been good news for their bottom line. But while the economy remains stro...

The Seattle Times | March 11, 2020

Amazon executives approved a $5 million fund to support small businesses around its Seattle headquarters struggling with a dramatic slowdown since the company instructed its employees to work from home if they could. The company will provide cash grants to businesses with fewer than 50 employees or less than $7 million in annual revenue that serve the public, rely on foot traffic, and have a physical presence “within a few blocks of our Regrade and South Lake Union office buildings,”...

FINANCE, BUSINESS STRATEGY

Mastercard | July 29, 2022

Mastercard has welcomed a raft of new global partners to its innovative Mastercard Installments program and is expanding it further to support small businesses in the U.S. Illustrating the demand for powerful buy now, pay later (BNPL) experiences from familiar and trusted brands, several new partners are providing support for the program, including HSBC, J.P.Morgan and NatWest in the U.K.; Cross River Bank, Evolve Bank & Trust, Jifiti, Live Oak Bank, MOCA Financial and WebBank in the U.S.; a...