Mainstream banks outside the U.S. are sampling cryptocurrencies, offering customers ways to invest and store bitcoin and other digital assets. Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria SA—Spain’s second-largest lender by assets, with operations in Latin America and Turkey—allows customers to hold, buy and sell bitcoin and ether through a digital account. Traditional banks have resisted offering retail customers anything other than assets …
Small business owners feelthey’re in a race for their livelihoods.When they learned $349 billion in forgivable loans would be paid out on a first-come,first-served basis, they made a mad dash to apply the day the program opened. He has spent days trying to apply for separate PPP loans for each restaurant at Chase Bank.On Tuesday afternoon,Chase sent him an email …
