Lenders Need Relevant Benchmarks
From Bloomberg Businessweek: What We Don’t Know About Small Business Lending The 2008 crisis has shed some light on many problems with our financial system that have been either hidden or ignored. One...
View ArticleLeft Out: SMB’s Haven’t Benefited From Bailouts
From Businessweek: Make the Next Bailout Serve Small Business It’s an oldie, but still very relevant. Why has there been such a huge failure by the architects of the these bailouts at making them work...
View ArticleBCH Index: A Helping Hand to SBA
By providing partial guarantees of billions of dollars in loans to mid-market and small businesses, the SBA is navigating treacherous waters. While fulfilling their mission to support small business...
View ArticleGood Innovation, Bad Innovation
Mortgage backed securities (MBS), credit default swaps (CDS), and collateralized debt obligations (CDO) all sound like dirty words these days. It’s tough to argue against these sentiments given their...
View ArticleAn Index You Can Bank On
When espousing the many capabilities and applications we see for the WAIN Street Business Credit Health Index there is always a concern about coming off as too ambitious or “pie in the sky” which can...
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