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The Blueprint For Rethinking Main Street

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For the small shops and independently owned restaurants that line America’s Main Streets from coast to coast, the past eight weeks have been a difficult time leading toward an incredibly uncertain future. The MSBIA is an advocacy group that represents Main Street businesses in Santa Monica, California.

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New Data: Inside Main Street SMB’s Digital Shift

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Confronted with the option, most SMBs chose to innovate. In Main Street On Lockdown: Business Recovery edition, we surveyed 431 SMB owners from across the U.S. In Main Street On Lockdown: Business Recovery edition, we surveyed 431 SMB owners from across the U.S. Our study finds that 33.4

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The Road To Recovery: Main Street SMBs And Closing The Cash Flow Gap

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To gauge the economic health and vitality of local economies, one need look no further than the financial stability of the small and medium-sized businesses that line the main streets and side streets of communities across the nation. One of the digital tools in which Main Street SMBs show great interest is real-time merchant fund settlement.

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Use This Framework for Better Bank Innovation

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Every bank wants to be “innovative,” but the truth is innovation is difficult. Add to that a bank’s resource constraints, compliance demands, budget goals, legacy IT infrastructure and talent gaps, and innovation for a bank is extremely difficult. The Problem of Bank Innovation. Framing Innovation.

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Main Street?s Digital Shift, ATM Innovation, PPP Loans Top This Week?s News

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We have deep dives on Main Street’s digital shift, ATM innovation and PPP loans. The pandemic has sped up the digital roadmap for everyone in financial services, providing for more innovation in the last few months than had been seen during several years. NEW DATA: Inside Main Street SMBs’ Digital Shift.

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The Many Faces Of Main Street SMB Recovery

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The COVID-19 pandemic has been a catalyst for small firms’ innovation, with 71.7 A plurality of SMB owners will maintain the digital innovations they have developed to help their firms survive during the pandemic, and many intend to invest in more digital innovations in the future,” the new survey found. So, what happens now?

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Silicon Valley Investor Aims To Create Tech Hub In Maine

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A new research institute in Portland, Maine, is intended to electrify the local economy and provide a hub for multiple career fields outside of the major cities that dominate most tech job searches. The logic behind the institute is that innovators do their best work when they are surrounded by other innovators.

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