The small-business funding industry, measured.
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Larry Reid covers merchant cash advance and alternative lending markets for The Fund Scope, from lender strategy and new entrants to the policy shifts that move the industry.
8 articles
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NerdWallet SMB lending stayed under pressure in Q3 2024, but small business revenue grew 12% on renewals even as search traffic weakened.
News · By Larry Reid
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A pre-election scenario analysis of how tax, oversight, trade and bank-credit shifts could reach the merchant cash advance business, built on the one documented variable, corporate tax rates.
Analysis · By Larry Reid
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PayPal's CFO says the 2023 credit tightening behind its merchant lending program is over and merchant originations are growing again, though only modestly.
News · By Larry Reid
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California Intermodal Associates, a Commerce, California carrier and broker, told FreightWaves in April it was closing after almost 25 years, and its CEO blames AB5.
News · By Larry Reid
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The Center for Advancing Financial Equity has named six companies to its Fall 2024 accelerator for fintech startups, an eight-week program that charges no fee and takes no equity.
News · By Larry Reid
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deBanked places Walmart's own seller advance programs, repaid from future sales, in the merchant cash advance industry alongside Parafin and Payoneer.
News · By Larry Reid
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A broker's six-step checklist to prepare a merchant file so a funder's read of statements, positions and history holds up, with no promise of any offer or terms.
Playbook · By Larry Reid
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How funders read a merchant's payment history, meaning its remittance record, at underwriting and renewal, the paid-down conventions they publish, and where a renewal differs from stacking.
Playbook · By Larry Reid
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