2020-04-09
The Fed's actions are designed to ensure the flow of credit to midsize businesses and state and local governments hit hard by the economic impact of the coronavirus pandemic.
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2020-04-09
The Federal Reserve and other regulators are planning to grant a sweeping capital break for banks providing loans to small businesses as part of the government's response to the coronavirus-fueled economic crisis.
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2020-04-09
The bank will be allowed to exceed the limit to enable it to make more small business loans; the CEOs of HSBC and StanChart are also donating part of their pay to coronavirus victim charities.
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2020-04-09
Upgrade's hybrid loan-card product can now be used without swiping as consumers and retail workers seek to minimize spread of novel coronavirus.
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2020-04-09
This week the Small Business Administration (SBA) released guidance on two important topics of the Paycheck Protection Program: acceptable form of promissory note and required funding periods.
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2020-04-08
With the government pumping trillions of new spending into the economy, experts are questioning the Federal Reserve's ability to keep prices stable.
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2020-04-08
Closed showrooms, temporary bans on repossessions and a sudden spike in unemployment have dimmed the prospects of a sector that has boomed since the last recession.
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2020-04-08
Third party releases have long been a controversial feature of certain chapter 11 plans. They are neither specifically allowed nor prohibited by the plain language of the Bankruptcy Code.
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2020-04-08
The agency overhauled its system for the Paycheck Protection Program on Wednesday. Lenders hope it addresses the access issues and a crash that bedeviled the effort’s first week.
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2020-04-08
A bipartisan group of lawmakers wrote in a letter to the Treasury secretary that the Financial Stability Oversight Council should create a liquidity facility to deal with a flood of forbearance requests brought on by the coronavirus pandemic.
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2020-04-08
They have asked the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, the chief anti-money-laundering regulator, to let them collect customer information and verify it after the loan application is processed in order to speed approvals.
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2020-04-08
Community advocates would like to see changes to the 1977 Community Reinvestment Act, but say regulators should suspend such efforts until the coronavirus pandemic has passed.
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2020-04-08
Pinnacle Bankshares and Virginia Bank Bankshares said the move will let each bank focus more on their response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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2020-04-08
Lenders and community groups say it's a mistake for the banking agencies to move forward during a national crisis.
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2020-04-08
The Federal Reserve is temporarily altering the growth restriction it placed on Wells Fargo in 2018 so that the bank can make additional loans to small and midsize business that need funding to weather the coronavirus pandemic.
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