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The Main Street Rescue That Wasn’t (And Still Isn’t)

PYMNTS

What happens if Main Street becomes less a proving ground for smaller businesses — born of, and serving, local communities — and more a collection of larger firms, well-capitalized, but already enjoying competitive advantages? Millions of smaller businesses are grappling with the impacts of the pandemic. The smallest loan, at $1.5

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The State Of Main Street In 2020’s Second Half

PYMNTS

The first half of 2020 was a tough time to run a small business on Main Street as stay-at-home orders closed down restaurants and retailers for much or all of the past five months. That requirement of rapid change left many Main Street merchants deeply shaken and worried about their futures.

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Drip Capital Aims To Create Trade Finance Network For Cross Border Buyers, Suppliers

PYMNTS

And enter Drip Capital , the middleman that serves as the financial grease that enables trade to flow, easing concerns of both buyers and suppliers. said Pushkar Mukewar , co-founder and CEO of Drip Capital in a conversation with PYMNTS’ Karen Webster. “For Blockchain To Bangladesh.

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FinTechs Help Main Street Find Its Footing

PYMNTS

Department of Justice’s first case of alleged PPP fraud, small businesses quickly came to realize that government relief will not be the silver bullet they need to survive the market downturn. The consensus on Main Street, however, is that the old ways of doing business may be gone for good. The Road To Recovery.

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Bitcoin Daily: Nigeria’s Crypto Market Surges; Alleged Crypto Capital Operator Charged With Fraud

PYMNTS

Binance , Nigeria’s cryptocurrency market, has seen sign-ups surge 50 percent so far in 2020. The market is scrambling to provide users with a stablecoin. Reginald Fowler, “an alleged operator behind payment processor Crypto Capital , was charged with wire fraud” on Friday (Feb.

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MainVest On Bringing Everyday Investors To Main Street Shops 

PYMNTS

Big plans generally required big investments — which is why the best-known startup firms in the world have big names in business and venture capital standing behind them with their big checkbooks as backers. have much simpler goals than bringing to market an epoch-making innovation. In fact the vast majority of small firms in the U.S.

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Why Nations Fail

Chris Skinner

I was recently at a Capital Markets conference in Turkey where the main first day keynote speaker is Professor James A. Robinson from the University of Chicago and co-author of Why Nations Fail, a book that changed thinking about what makes for successful countries and what makes them fail.

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