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The latest bipartisan plan to accelerate the economic recovery would appropriate roughly $300 billion for the Paycheck Protection Program, but the legislative package still faces long odds in the divided Congress.

Jobs will be harder to find for graduates, and there are new underwriting platforms that can better predict students' future income in their chosen field.

Elizabeth Magennis recently served as the New Jersey company's chief lending officer. ConnectOne also hired Michael O'Malley, a former OnDeck Capital executive, as chief risk officer.

In November, the Sierra Club singled out Bank of America as "the only major U.S. bank not to rule out financing for the destruction of the Arctic refuge" after its five biggest competitors updated their policies this year.

The digital currency’s recent 90% jump is being fueled by ‘less speculative fever;’ the liquidity facility designed to enable small banks to make more PPP loans has been extended until March.

Marketplace payments technology provider ConnexPay has secured additional funding from investors to reach $15 million, and it will use its funding to increase product offerings in the travel industry and expand in other e-commerce sectors.

CEO James Schenck says the institution's military focus means it must provide services for a group of consumers who move every few years. That has helped it focus more on mobile services and less on brick and mortar.

With the globe pivoting to e-commerce during the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, an array of new opportunities have arisen for fraudsters, and merchants have found themselves being increasingly hit by different forms of chargeback fraud.

Using AI can manage both privacy and security as part of AML reform, says Giant Oak's Gary Shiffman.

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