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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) on Tuesday said it had approved 400,000 more pandemic relief loans worth $35 billion and was trying to fix issues operational snags with the program raised by lenders.
The SBA launched the third round of the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) this month, but significant changes to its rules, process and technology platform, has caused problems that were slowing approvals, a bank group said on Tuesday.
Companies looking to apply for a second PPP loan were encountering technical hurdles the American Bankers Association said, while lenders are also receiving a “high number of incorrect error messages” when they submit loan applications.
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A lobbying group for U.S. banks called on the U.S. government on Monday to amend glitches in a key federal pandemic loan program that it said were preventing small businesses from getting the financial aid they needed.
By Aaron Nicodemus2021-01-26T21:26:00+00:00
Five out of five
Janet Yellen, former chair of the Federal Reserve, takes over as leader of a Treasury Department with a lot on its plate.
She’ll be expected to implement policies that help shore up a battered economy, sell President Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion COVID-19 stimulus package to Congress, refocus on the effects of climate change on the economy, unwind contradictory and overlapping sanctions imposed by the Trump administration, and revamp the Bank Secrecy Act’s (BSA) anti-money laundering (AML) program. Yellen’s Treasury Department faces increasingly complex questions on how to regulate cryptocurrency, as well as other digital banking innovations pushed by a robust financial technology (FinTech) sector.