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ACH Transactions: What Small Business Owners Need To Know

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For small businesses, understanding the basics of ACH is important on two fronts: you can make and receive payments through ACH, and ACH is a common method funders use to collect repayment of a business cash advance. What are Automated Clearing House (ACH) transactions? ACH is an acronym for “Automated Clearing House.”

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Structuring cash transactions: Example reviews and best practices for banks

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How does your AML program detect structured cash transactions? Takeaway 2 Put yourself in the customer’s shoes to identify why they might be performing transactions in a manner that reflects potential structuring. Following the passage of BSA, bad actors began structuring cash transactions to avoid the required reporting.

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7 Hidden Costs of Running a Small Business

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For most prospective small business owners, many of the costs of running a business are clear from the beginning of the process. As a business grows and shows steady increases in its revenue and transactions, business owners should continually check if they’re getting the best deal possible.

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How to Accept Credit Card Payments for your Small Business

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As more American consumers utilize next-generation payment methods like touchless transactions or smartphone payments, there’s a general sense that we’re headed toward a cashless world. However, there are still plenty of small businesses that operate exclusively in cash—and will continue to do so for years to come.

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Optimizing small business lending: Best practices and strategies

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Boost your small business lending efforts from the bottom up Small businesses play a crucial role in our economy, and one of the critical factors in their success is access to funding. You might also like this guide for smarter, faster small business lending.

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5 Tips for Small Business Owners to Assess and Improve Their Bookkeeping

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America’s small businesses face unprecedented challenges. Small business bankruptcy filings increased 78% over the past year, driven by impending changes to bankruptcy law and ongoing uncertainty about the overall economic outlook. As a business owner, you indeed wish things could be easier.

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FAQs: CFPB small business data collection info for lenders

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What to know about the CFPB 1071 rule affecting small business loans This post provides answers to some frequently asked questions about data requirements and other changes likely from the new rule. Visit CFPB 1071 resources for lenders for more on data collection requirements for small business lending.