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The SBA’s Paycheck Protection Program is nearly depleted, but there are ways small banks and fintechs, with help from Congress, can remedy the situation.

Many companies have yet to take advantage of automation when it comes to testing their payment channels, a commonly overlooked but vitally important area, says Paragon Application Systems’ Steve Gilde.

From stimulus checks to the Paycheck Protection Program, the government’s infusion of cash into an economy reeling from the coronavirus pandemic has primarily helped those who already strong banking relationships.

The trend to mobile is accelerating due to government stimulus checks, closed bank branches and the move to e-commerce, sayd Mitek's Michael Diamond.

Minorities are often hit harder financially during a crisis, but if regulators move forward on revamping the Community Reinvestment Act, they’ll only make matters worse.

When we go back to normal, it's our opportunity to start making long-overdue infrastructure upgrades, says Nvoicepay's Derek Halpern.

Community development financial institutions, including credit unions, have a unique role to play as the nation weathers the economic fallout from COVID-19, but they can't do it alone.

The best solutions consider both the user and the device, says says Fingerprints' Jonas Andersson.

As the market deals with the short-term challenge of getting stimulus payments into the hands of citizens, the country has a unique opportunity to put the unbanked and underbanked on a long-term path to electronic payment methods, Jim Johnson of FIS says.

As the market deals with the short-term challenge of getting trillions of dollars of relief and stimulus payments into the hands of citizens in the coming weeks and months, we as a country have a unique opportunity to put our unbanked and underbanked citizens on a long-term path to electronic payment methods, says FIS' Jim Johnson.