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NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Interestingly, the World Bank cited the pandemic and related shutdown as the main cause of the trend, pointing to lower wages and lost jobs as a key factor. The report , released back in April, predicted the sharpest-ever decline in remittance volume, projecting a 20 percent drop in remittance activity. A Short-Term Remittance Boom.

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MARCH 24, 2020

The plan was to launch in the summer, but the current coronavirus pandemic seemed to demand a response, so Taub and Schonfield rolled it out early. The coronavirus’ spiraling layoffs, store closures and shutdowns have left staggering numbers of people out of work in recent weeks, which Taub said was the main reason for the early launch.

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MARCH 30, 2020

For most small businesses, the dawn of the new decade was filled with optimism for their futures. The distribution of our SMBs spanned large urban centers (29 percent), large cities and towns (49 percent) and the small towns (22 percent) for which Main Street is the heartbeat of the community. Nearly 30 (29.4)

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MAY 20, 2020

To enable businesses to more easily list their merchandise on its social media platforms, Facebook has unveiled Facebook Shops. The strict conditions of the PPP loans have ended up excluding some of the neediest small businesses, prompting leaders across party lines to seek a solution. Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.)

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MAY 22, 2020

Le Garrec said Petit Robert has been serving up dining experiences — on-demand and remotely — well enough to recoup 40 percent of its former business, “so it’s not that bad.”. Le Garrec described his initial experience of the shutdown as something of a mad dash for survival. We experience an everyday learning curve.”.

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APRIL 16, 2020

Given the full-scale shutdown in the U.S. In terms of the number of requests for forbearance, cardholders have been the leaders, though in terms of percentage of requests for loans, small business clients top the board. Demand for loan products has also fallen. BofA, incidentally, is not the only big bank in the U.S.

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PYMNTS

MAY 25, 2020

The Facebook-sponsored Small Business Roundtable results were among the truly stunning aspects of the business side of the pandemic. On April 6, days after the SBA PPP program had gone live, one in four SMBs still didn’t think their businesses would survive the pandemic, and four in 10 still said they weren’t sure.

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MARCH 21, 2020

The stock market, the unemployment tick-up, the uncertainty, the growing number of coronavirus cases, the concerns about the healthcare system, the small business shutdowns with uncertain futures – pick your poison in terms of bad news. “It seems like every day, business is accelerating,” Brown said.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 17, 2020

The coronavirus continues to have reverberations across the global stage, and is especially impacting developed economies, and in particular, the small businesses that are a key foundation of those economies. To get a sense of how smaller firms are being impacted, in a situation that is fluid on a day to day (hour by hour?)

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APRIL 27, 2020

When the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) debuted earlier this month, it was heralded by some observers as a lifeline for small businesses that power Main Street in the United States. There was, of course, a rocky start that found big banks and other lenders less-than-ready to meet the demand deluge. Another 16.5

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MAY 8, 2020

And the challenges — particularly the security challenges — existed both for the digitally native firms that suddenly found their services in-demand and rapidly scaling, as well as the Main Street SMBs that were forced to make the great digital leap forward. Building A Bridge To Recovery.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

While the virus keeps Chinese consumers homebound (as stores, schools, businesses and public gathering places like movie theaters have been closed), ordering food in and ridesharing have become increasingly challenging — as various app-based, on-demand services have temporarily shuttered operations as well. 24 through Feb.

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JULY 2, 2020

Even before any official shutdowns, 43.8 economy, typified by the looming failure of millions of Main Street small businesses. “By What they will do next and how those demands will shape payments are open questions at this point. Similarly, 49.4 By mid-April, the U.S. percent of U.S.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 16, 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic has been hard on everyone – consumers, businesses, government officials and healthcare workers – but the pain has been far from evenly distributed over the past nine months. Small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) have unfortunately found themselves at or near the top of COVID-19’s 2020 hit list.

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JULY 3, 2020

Small- and medium-sized businesses have been hit hard by the pandemic, but most are scrambling into digital pivots to blunt the impact of physical stores’ shutdowns, Colleen Taylor , executive vice president and head of merchant services at Wells Fargo , told Karen Webster during a recent conversation. A Hopeful Tomorrow.

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CB Insights

JULY 17, 2018

As more customers expect on-demand ordering, big players have struck deals with startups like UberEATS and GrubHub to ensure greater reach and retain existing customers. The company and its primary supplier, Beyond Meat, are driving a new wave of food businesses using technology to create meat substitutes.

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APRIL 13, 2020

That was the day the SBA PPP rescue relief effort began accepting applications from banks on behalf of their small business customers. On March 24, two days prior to the passage of the CARES Act, we asked Main Street SMBs to assess the likelihood that their businesses would survive the economic crisis created by COVID-19.

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CB Insights

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

They were running the business to raise money, and then to get someone else to take it on,” was how one person described it. A] confirmed catastrophe,” another exec said about the shutdown. They got big fast, but size turned out to be an albatross when the demand wasn’t there.” 242 Startup Failure Post-Mortems.

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OCTOBER 21, 2020

The pandemic’s economic impacts have taken a toll on all businesses but in many ways, small- to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) have faced more harm than others. While the tenacity and resilience of small businesses have been inspirational, their day-to-day experiences have varied widely, U.S. Time For More PPP .

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 31, 2017

During this process, it became clear that creating an effective manufacturing and distribution system for a nationwide customer base requires infrastructure that we cannot achieve on our own as a standalone business. in total funding closed). ” So why do so many startups flame out? 2017 Third Update (10/31/17). The clock kept ticking.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 20, 2020

The wildcard, of course, is the pandemic, which is shifting attention to emergency planning, worries about demand and of course supply chain issues. The number of establishments was down 20 basis points year over year, employment was down more than 1 percent and wages were up a rather anemic 1.3

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