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This Week In Payments: Saving Small Business

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And as recent headlines about some technology firms that TCV invests in indicate, the push among small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) to bridge the digital divide has changed the landscape for firms that support SMBs, Helekar and Webster agreed. We think a lot of these trends that we’re seeing are long-term trends,” Helekar said.

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Pokemon The Surprise Retail Sizzle Of The Summer?

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The latest size 12 to fall is what was touted as the online lenders secret sauce – the algorithms that crunched data, they reported, better than anyone ever had done, ever, in order to make lending decisions to consumers that would mitigate investors risk and maximize their return – have turned out to be not to smart.

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