| Banking On A Rough Earnings Season For Banks The coronavirus looks set to ravage earnings season, which kicks off this week. Banks will be especially hard hit, pressured by low interest rates, and now, of course, skyrocketing unemployment and small business shutterings. The numbers will tell a sober tale, but there may be a bright spot or two among the data, particularly tied to digital banking activity, which should get a tailwind as we all shelter place. |
| Why PPP Will Be A Pivot Point For The Future Of Digital Security SMBs nationwide are waiting impatiently for their PPP relief funds. Unfortunately for those small businesses, DataVisor CEO Yinglian Xie told Karen Webster, so are fraudsters who are already perfecting their tactics for diverting them. Hereâs why PPP should be a catalyst for how banks and businesses should be thinking to protect their digital fraud flanks now and in the future. |
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| Charmin And Unrolling The Mystery Of The Great Toilet Paper Shortage Of all the 2020 predictions, absolutely no one thought that toilet paper would be the hottest consumer good of Q1. But then such is the life in a Covid-19 world. So what is the deal with the TP, why is it so hard to buy and when will this be over? PYMNTS reached out to execs at Charmin to start unrolling the story. Turns out toilet paper is a lot more complex than you think. |
| Securing The New Commerce Normal The world of commerce will never be the same in a post Covid-19 world, and neither will the world of trying to secure it, Kount Executive Gary Sevounts told PYMNTS in a recent conversation. Fraudsters aren't suddenly doing new things, he said, but they are doing more than they ever have, with a wider field of targets than ever to choose from. |
| | KLW Commentary | | Can Main Street SMBs Cross The PPP Cash Chasm? The $350B SBA PPP COVID-19 relief fund is intended as a lifeline for small- to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) whose businesses have hit hard by coronavirus. Yet, Karen Webster says that PYMNTS research on 700+ Main Street SMBs shows that even with that lifeline, the cash gap between what these businesses need to stay afloat and the time they think it will take for business to return is still too large for many to cross. Just as many Main Street SMBs think they will fail or that their business is at risk after PPP funds became available as did the week before the plan became known â and so may not even get in line. Hereâs what new data shows these Main Street SMBs need from the government â and why. |
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