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The State Of Main Street In 2020’s Second Half

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The first half of 2020 was a tough time to run a small business on Main Street as stay-at-home orders closed down restaurants and retailers for much or all of the past five months. That requirement of rapid change left many Main Street merchants deeply shaken and worried about their futures.

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Six Months Into Pandemic, Taking The Pulse Of Main Street SMBs

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“These improvements in the labor market reflect the continued resumption of economic activity that had been curtailed due to the COVID-19 pandemic and efforts to contain it,” the BLS said in its report. The state of Main Street right now? Recent PYMNTS coverage indicates that a recovery could not come soon enough.

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Why JPMorgan Wants A Piece Of The SMB POS Market

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For SMBs, what’s in the cards … are more card readers. Morgan is focused on enabling payments for the millions of small businesses that are the lifeblood of Main Streets across the U.S. – Those latter two firms have been in the in-store POS market for quite some time (Square, for example, since 2009).

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Commercial Card Innovation Puts SMBs In The Spotlight

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Smaller companies were the focus of innovation in the commercial card space this week thanks to new cards designed for small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs). American Express, Amazon Rollout Card For UK SMBs. American Express rolled out co-branded cards with Amazon for British SMBs.

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How Square’s Results Spotlight Main Street SMBs’ Resilience — And (Cash) Challenges

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All eyes may be trained on Wall Street now, and Main Street too as the latest tranche of business lending gets underway. Larger full-service restaurants opened community markets to sell raw ingredients, produce and food staples through online stores,” he said. Card-present volumes were down by 60 percent year over year.

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Path To World Series Brings Changes To Online Gambling

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It’s not exactly high time for legal online gambling yet – that comes in early 2020, with the Super Bowl and then the NCAA college basketball tournament – but the betting season is certainly heating up on more ways than one. And that new fuel comes as the legal online and mobile gambling industry in the U.S. has added to that pressure.

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Wild Cards? Gambling, Payroll, Other Models Provide Fresh Fuel For Prepaid

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Cards (as in prepaid, stored-value cards that consumers can use for gambling, payroll and a variety of other uses, many of them novel) are only half the battle. To get a sense of how the world of payments and cards has changed, Cregan told Webster a story about a conference he attended in Las Vegas in 2009. Take payroll cards.

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