Symend has announced a $52 million funding round. The fintech startup provides platforms for businesses to identify customers who might miss payments and then provide them with options to avoid doing so. So reports TechCrunch.

Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort, who is serving a federal sentence for charges relating to tax and mortgage fraud, has been released from prison due to coronavirus worries, according to his lawyer. So reports the Associated Press.

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A convicted mortgage fraudster from Andover, Mass., has become one of the first people charged with trying to scam the Small Business Administration’s Paycheck Protection Program (PPP). So reports The Lowell Sun.