Discover Financial Services and Sallie Mae are both reporting a surge in borrowers seeking payment relief, signaling the start of a new era in which U.S. consumer lenders will have to focus heavily on minimizing their credit losses. By last week, a total of …
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Amanda Stevens has just pulled hot bagels out of the oven in her Berkeley home. A culinary school graduate and caterer who was recently laid off, Stevens, 30, reinvented herself as a baker after California’s COVID-19 shelter-in-place order. There was only …
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Alliance Data Systems Corp (NYSE:ADS) Q1 2020 Earnings Call Apr 23, 2020, 8:30 a.m. ET. Contents: Prepared Remarks; Questions and Answers; Call Participants. Prepared Remarks: Operator. Good morning and welcome to Alliance Data’s First Quarter …
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After passing new stimulus legislation this week, Congress is set to add $310 billion to the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP). The second round of applications will officially open soon. And whether you’re waiting on an already submitted application or …
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SEATTLE — Bill Gates, who predicted this pandemic five years ago, is now turning his attention to what’s next — and the simplest way to describe it, he says, is “semi-normal.” People will be able to go out again after lockdown orders are lifted, “but not as often …
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