A minimum of $20 billion in Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loans have been canceled — many by small businesses afraid they can’t spend the money in ways that will qualify for loan forgiveness, calculations of Small Business Administration (SBA) data by Bloomberg found. SBA reports indicate $510.5 billion in the net amount...
Report: SEC Probing Public Firms That Received PPP Funds
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has launched an investigation into publicly traded companies that received COVID-19 stimulus funds, Bloomberg News reported. Agents are looking into whether the companies’ loan applications for the Small Business Administration (SBA’s) Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) were consistent with the disclosures made to investors...