The Biden administration just made it easier for very small businesses and self-employed workers to get more money in less time. Paycheck Protection Program loan portal opens to larger lenders soon: ...

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The Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) and the PPP Liquidity Facility were launched early in the pandemic to help many small businesses survive. These programs encouraged banks to lend more extensively ...

We examine the longer-term effects of the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) and the PPP Liquidity Facility (PPPLF) on small business (SME) lending using bank-level Call Report data. To identify a ...

A new congressional report finds that financial technology companies enabled fraud in the Paycheck Protection Program, which gave forgivable loans to small businesses during the pandemic. Rampant ...

When the Paycheck Protection Program launched during the pandemic shutdowns of spring 2020, it immediately became a chaotic free-for-all. Called PPP for short, the program offered simple-to-get, ...