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The Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance and the Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation at the Chicago Booth School of Business recently collaborated on research […]

When we think small business lending, we are usually talking loans less than $250,000. Many non bank fintech companies have made forays into this space […]

Scaling Institutional Investment in Trade Receivables requires creating Infrastructure and that includes Custodians (and not the janitorial kind). There are two big areas of third […]

When Marketplace lenders establish new loans, the question of how repayment is going to work matters to investors, particularly those that invest in their securitization […]

Below are recent headlines from various news sources. I can’t stress enough how the structural changes going through the Bank, Credit, and Capital markets are […]

The traditional Captive Finance companies – such as Deere Capital, CAT Financial, or GE Capital helped finance their vast subsidiary sales with various dealer and […]

We are seeing financial innovations over the last few years that we have not seen ever. Period. Small business lending has seen the brunt of […]

The first installment of our discussion with Susan Joseph covered why 2014 was the year for Peer to Peer or Marketplace lending. Today we look […]

Susan Joseph is a former General Counsel of a start-up peer lending financial services/tech disrupter. She served as General Counsel at a trade receivables insurer […]

When you look back in 2014, there are several themes that impact the world of business credit. The first of course is the rise of […]

Was the Lending Club just in the right place at the right time? For sure, a whole bunch of secular trends have gone their way, […]

I’ve been a big fan of Square and its ability to enable small business to accept credit cards anywhere for 2.75%. It’s a convenience and […]