Small business can now seek advantages of dealing with a third party and are no longer tied to their credit card processor for unsecured cash advances.

Brazilian Real Advances After Central Bank Sells Dollar, Swaps (Bloomberg)
Oct. 9 (Bloomberg) — Brazil’s real gained for the first time in seven days after the central bank drew on foreign reserves to support the currency.

Pound Advances Against Dollar; U.K. to Provide Cash to Banks (Bloomberg)
Oct. 8 (Bloomberg) — The pound rose against the dollar after the U.K. said it will invest 50 billion pounds ($87 billion) in the nation’s banks to ward off a collapse of the financial system.

FastUpFront New Technology Frees Small Business Cash Advances from Credit Card Processors (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
CLIFTON, N.J.—-FastUpFront introduces a new technology that provides small business to qualify for unsecured cash advance loans. Traditionally, these loans were only available from the business’s credit card processor, making these companies vulnerable to inflated costs, bad service and refusal.

Russky Standart Caps Cash Advances (The Moscow Times)
07 October 2008 Tremors from the global financial-sector earthquake are beginning to reach Russian consumers as the country’s retail banks begin to impose limits on credit card cash advances.