to provide an expert overview on the new law amending the U.S. Paycheck Protection Program (PPP), along with an overview on Wolters Kluwer’s TSoftPlus technology which expedites PPP lending. The webinar, December 27, 2020, marked the U.S. federal government passage of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021 (H.R.133), which includes $284.5 million in additional PPP funding. The third round of PPP helps lenders support small businesses suffering from the severe economic challenges brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic. In anticipation of this new PPP funding, Wolters Kluwer recently announced significant enhancements to its award-winning Paycheck Protection Program Supported by TSoftPlus™ software to expedite Small Business Administration (SBA) loan applications. Benefits include accelerated PPP lending from application, to closing, to pledging to the Federal Reserve under the Borrower-in-Custody program by eliminating the manual post-closing activities that have presented an unanticipated challenge for the industry. Wolters Kluwer Online Applications technology integrates borrowers’ online loan applications directly into the TSoftPlus platform, reducing duplicative manual entry of loan applicant information, while further digitizing the process end-to-end, from origination through the forgiveness phase.