INSIGHTS

How Can Small Businesses Leverage Public Resources to Help Meet Business Funding Needs?

Small businesses can leverage publicly available resources to help meet their funding needs. Programs designed to provide access to funding can complement existing and private sources of capital and provide additional resources for growing a...

Four Important Online Business Loan Refinance Considerations to Remember

Keep in mind these important considerations if you're thinking about refinancing an online business loan.  Refinancing debt is not a decision to be taken lightly. It has consequences that can effect everything from credit scores to liquidity.

Online Lending: What Business Owners Need To Know

Online lending has empowered consumers and business owners and changed the dynamic between borrowers and lenders. The traditional relationship between financial institutions and the borrowing community was one where borrowers appeared on bended knee...

Will Marketplace Lending Be Regulated?

American Banker recently held their second annual Marketplace Lending and Investing Conference at the midtown Hilton in New York City. According to the event organizers, attendance was double from last year. The explosive growth in this sector along...

The Million Dollar "Small" Business Loan

The continuing rise of marketplace lending to small businesses in the United States is providing sorely needed liquidity to companies that have been locked out of the economic recovery. This is good news for borrowers as new entrants into the small...

Deciphering Common Loan Acronyms

When shopping for and applying for a small business loan, you will inevitably come in contact with numerous jumbled and confusing loan acronyms that require you to do some solid research in order to understand them.

Fortunately, we have compiled the...

How We Choose Our Alternative Lending Partners

To say that alternative business lending has grown significantly in the past few years would be an understatement. Yet as far as online lending has come in recent times, it still represents a fraction of business and consumer lending in the United...

Loan Micropayments: Daily Remittance for a Less Stressful Repayment Process

Loan micropayments might be a term that you aren’t well aware of yet, but it’s one that’s important to know and understand in the realm of alternative lending - especially for your small business.

Small Business Loan Brokers

Alternative lenders are providing sorely needed liquidity to small businesses in the United States. Most lenders have a simple online application process, so why has the business brokerage industry exploded? And is it legitimate?  

Marketplace Lending Growth: Good For Lenders, Better for Borrowers

Marketplace lending now has dedicated analysts from investment banks charting growth in the industry. That’s a very, very good sign. Marketplace lending is a fairly recent phenomenon in the United States compared to other developed economies, such...