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DR Bank Helps Small Businesses Obtain Critical SBA Financing
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DR Bank Helps Small Businesses Obtain Critical SBA Financing

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DR Bank has been an active participant in the SBA’s Payroll Protection Program, assisting over 250 businesses in securing financing that will help them support payroll and other critical infrastructure expenses until they are able to resume normal operations.  This interim financing will preserve over 4,300 jobs. Read More: Abrigo......
PruPay Launches Touchless Payments for True Touch-Free Buying With Tipping, Optional Fees and a Feature to Pay It Forward
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PruPay Launches Touchless Payments for True Touch-Free Buying With Tipping, Optional Fees and a Feature to Pay It Forward

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PruPay Touchless (Built with PayPal) is supporting small businesses by waiving all fees for easy text payments during the COVID-19 pandemic PruPay, a Denver-based payments technology company, is working with PayPal to develop and launch a simpler way for merchants to request one-time payments from consumers via text messaging. While paying......
Curu Secures $3M in Funding as the Demand for Credit Skyrockets During the Global Pandemic
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Curu Secures $3M in Funding as the Demand for Credit Skyrockets During the Global Pandemic

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Curu, an automated lead recovery solution enabling lenders to fund more loans, announced the close of its $3M seed round led by Vestigo Ventures, a leading fintech firm based in Boston, MA. Vestigo Ventures was joined by Harlem Capital, Matchstick Ventures, Carolina Fintech Ventures, Techstars Ventures, Holt Accelerator, Chingona Ventures, and Upscale Fund. Read......
John Hancock Retirement Launches Onboarding Resource Center and Plan Manager Tools to Help Advisors Better Serve Plans and Participants Digitally
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John Hancock Retirement Launches Onboarding Resource Center and Plan Manager Tools to Help Advisors Better Serve Plans and Participants Digitally

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John Hancock Retirement announced the launch of two digital tools, Onboarding Resource Center (ORC) and Plan Manager, to help financial professionals better serve clients in the current digital environment in light of COVID-19. Both tools are designed to increase efficiency using a digital, systematic approach to plan management that facilitates......
Wolters Kluwer's PracticePerfect Wins SIIA CODiE Award for Best Emerging Instructional Technology Solution
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Wolters Kluwer’s PracticePerfect Wins SIIA CODiE Award for Best Emerging Instructional Technology Solution

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Wolters Kluwer Legal & Regulatory U.S. was just awarded a 2020 SIIA CODiE Award for PracticePerfect, which won the Best Emerging Instructional Technology Solution category. Launched earlier this year, PracticePerfect is the newest study tool for law students available on CasebookConnect, Wolters Kluwer’s acclaimed legal education platform. Created around best practices in learning science, PracticePerfect aims to improve......
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Embracing Disruptions in Financial Services this 2020 and Beyond

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Fintech has been disrupting the overall structure and competitive environment within the finance sector and related markets over the last few years, in a big way. With the worldwide spread of the Covid-19 pandemic, businesses have had to change how they function; regulatory frameworks and newer innovations and demand for......
FIS Supports U.S. States and Territories in Providing Critical Lunch Funding to Families of School-Age Children
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FIS Supports U.S. States and Territories in Providing Critical Lunch Funding to Families of School-Age Children

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Financial services technology leader FIS announced that it is supporting U.S. states and territories under the U.S. Government’s Families First Coronavirus Response Act (FFCRA) to deliver needed lunch and food benefits to families of school-age children who have been impacted by school closures due to the current health crisis. In addition......
New AICPA Chair: Accountants’ Experience Needed Now More Than Ever
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New AICPA Chair: Accountants’ Experience Needed Now More Than Ever

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Accounting professionals have a crucial role to play in fostering prosperity, opportunity and trust during the current crisis, according to Tracey Golden, the new chair of the American Institute of CPAs (AICPA), the world’s largest member organization representing the CPA profession. Read More: Simple Announces Launch of Tax Refund Feature to Automate Savings......
Banca Transilvania Chooses Vonage to Power its Digital Transformation
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Banca Transilvania Chooses Vonage to Power its Digital Transformation

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Vonage, a global business cloud communications leader, announced  that Banca Transilvania has chosen Vonage to power its digital transformation of traditional banking. The first bank in Romania is leveraging the Vonage API Platform to offer customers an AI-powered virtual assistant through WhatsApp using the Vonage Messages API. Read More: WorldRemit Partners with......
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