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SME Optimism Waning In Election Season, Says Capital One

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The latest findings from Capital One’s Spark Business Barometer found a significant decline in small business optimism this year compared to their sentiments this time last year, reports said on Monday (May 2). Capital One did uncover good news, however. The economy may be in recovery, but small businesses in the U.S.

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Bitcoin unifies CEOs who agree on little else: It's 'dangerous'

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Yale University’s Chief Executive Leadership Institute surveyed 87 corporate leaders last week on aspects of the economy and politics, from the U.S. tax bill to recognizing Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. Virtually nothing on the list brought them closer to consensus than hating the cryptocurrency.

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Threats, Risk Coming At Businesses From All Sides

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The latest analysis from SpiderOak also found that, surprisingly, professionals in IT and leadership groups are actually more likely to be using these unsanctioned group chats. That’s according to SAP SuccessFactors and Oxford Economics, which surveyed 4,100 FinServ executives across markets. 40% more cyberbreaches impacted U.S.

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CFOs Take A Macro View Of The Future

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EIU and Deutsche found that 80 percent of the professionals surveyed hold significant levels of excess cash, causing treasurers to focus on either expanding or modifying their investment strategies as their way to more adequately gain control in a changing economic climate.

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The Confusing State Of Small Business In America

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Bank of America, Capital One, Wells Fargo, Chase and more published their findings — sometimes to contradicting conclusions. Chase reached some optimistic conclusions regarding how small business owners feel about the year ahead, while Capital One highlighted a 9 percent decline in SME optimism. Small businesses’ top concern?

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Community Bank CEO Outlook 2022: Your priorities for the new year

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Independent Banker ’s annual Community Bank CEO Outlook survey reveals how community bank leaders plan to leverage today’s deposit-laden banking environment to grow this year. Leading the challenges for bankers responding to this year’s survey are increasing loans (56.1%) and increasing earnings (54%). What changes will 2022 bring?

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Stripe Teardown: How The $35B Payments Company Plans To Supercharge Online Retail

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This growth has created major opportunities in the payments space, and companies like Stripe — the payments unicorn valued at a masive $35B — are hungry to capitalize on them. Leadership and board members. Thrive Capital, Khosla, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, and Redpoint also participated in early fundraising rounds.As

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