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Small Business Optimism Rises To Historic Highs

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New data showed that small business optimism rose 1.5 points to 105 in May, surpassing pre-shutdown levels. According to the National Federation of Independent Business ( NFIB ), six factors in the Small Business Optimism Index improved, three were unchanged, and one fell. Duggan said in a press release.

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Cash App Drives Square Strong Q2 Results

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Square’s gross profit for its core seller business fell 9 percent in Q2 compared to last year to $316 million. And Square’s gross payments volume in Q2 dipped 15 percent year over year. Instead, Square Capital loan volume was driven by the Paycheck Protection Program, which provided $873 million to more than 80,000 small businesses.

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BofA: Slumping Card Volume, Surging PPP Applications And A Gloomy Future Forecast

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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. Bank of America’s quarterly earnings report yesterday bore that out as the bank reported a 48.5

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Why Small Coffee Shops Are Thinking Big About Digital

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Independent coffee shops weren’t totally tuned out when it came to digitization in the pre-COVID-19 world, but it wasn’t an area of focus for them, according to Tim Griffin, founder of small business payments platform Cloosiv and chief product officer of its new parent company, Odeko. And it’s been all hands on deck ever since.”.

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PayPal (Maybe) Pulls Ahead Of The SMB Lending Pack

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With first-quarter earnings reports rolling out, it’s time to take a look at the state of small businesses and how they fared for the first three months of 2019. Research also revealed new signs of an impending recession in the form of dwindling numbers of small business exits. Beyond the U.S.,

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PayPal Processed More Transactions On May 1 Than On Black Friday

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For many firms, the last two months have represented the absolute worst of times as social distancing and forced closures have ground their businesses to a halt. Disney, for example, reported earlier this week that it has lost roughly $1 billion each day since the start of the shutdown. 66 non-GAAP EPS. billion from $4.13

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Western Union CFO: Pandemic Tailwinds Fuel Digital Remittances

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The report , released back in April, predicted the sharpest-ever decline in remittance volume, projecting a 20 percent drop in remittance activity. 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.

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