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How Refunds Affect Your Merchant Account

Cardfellow

Interchange Credits on Refunds Believe it or not, there’s no requirement that credit card processors return the processing fee on the transaction you refund. If your processor doesn’t return that fee, you lose money on each refund you process. They may be concerned about your funding availability to issue the refunds.

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UK SMEs Are Missing Out on Thousands in Interest, Study Claims

The Fintech Times

Notice accounts, which require businesses to lock away their cash for up to 95 days, provide slightly better returns, with an average interest rate of 3.03 These funds invest in low-risk, short-term securities and offer higher rates while enabling businesses to retain instant access to their cash. per cent and 0.9

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Kudlow: Third Round Of SBA PPP Loans ‘May Be’ Necessary

PYMNTS

Kudlow said “it may be” necessary to have more funding available. “We Many have opted to return the loans. However, most bank industry groups have indicated that most of the $310 billion is likely already tapped due to the applications already in the queue. . Let’s not make the same mistake again.” .

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SMB Funding Looks Ahead Towards A Post-Pandemic Market

PYMNTS

The small business financing market is in a unique position: despite market volatility and an economic downturn, funding availability remains strong for SMBs thanks to government funding initiatives. Funding Ebbs And Flows. challenger bank Tide is running out of small business funding after withdrawing from the BBLS.

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Blank Check Companies Set Sights On Unicorns

PYMNTS

But by letting investors (that would be the retail type) throw in their money to fund larger, better-known (and ostensibly savvier) operators like Ackman and others, the idea is that mergers and acquisitions will generate returns. And generating returns, of course, is top of mind.

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Western Union Talks Strategy, Financial Forecast With Investors

PYMNTS

This foundation gives us the power to invest in our cross-border platform capabilities while continuing to return significant levels of capital to shareholders.”. Receivers will have funds available to spend within minutes, enabling new real-time, cross-border, cross-currency payments capabilities for C2C, B2C and B2B use cases.

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Faster Payments, Better Validation

PYMNTS

For financial institutions and merchants, validating transactions in real time can be a boon, eliminating returns or declined transactions. The suggestion, then, was to use tokenization to ascertain account validity and funds availability in consumers’ accounts, using API calls from the merchant.