Bank of America becomes the first of the big four banks to allow applications for the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP); it launched its portal for small business loans at 9am ET on Friday; JPMorgan Chase, Citi and Wells Fargo had still not launched portals yet as of this writing; Richard Hunt, head of the Consumer Bankers Association, told CNBC Thursday that banks are “moving heaven and earth to get a system in place and running to help America’s small businesses and the millions of men and women who work at them”. Fortune