Last week I made some rather unfortunate comments about the California Department of Financial Protection and Innovation (“DFPI”). My error was based on a ...

New Jersey Senate Bill 1397 is still alive in 2025. This particular commercial financing disclosure bill intends to require APR disclosures for a broad range of products in commercial financing, ...

The results are finally in. After a six-month review period, the SBA finally announced the applicants that have been approved to serve on its inaugural small business lending advisory council. The ...

A recently amended bill that was introduced in the US House of Representatives earlier this year aims to push back compliance deadlines with the CFPB’s Small Business Lending data collection rule.

Welcome: Business owners, creditors, lawyers, and all others who have discovered or suspect a UCC filing by a Merchant Cash Advance Company or Business Lender. Banks and Creditors: The traditional ...

A lot happened in 2024, but rather than just rehash it all out, let’s revisit the world of 10 years ago. In 2014, both OnDeck and LendingClub went public, Bitcoin landed in the mainstream, Square ...

Yisroel (“Scott”) Heber was sentenced to 15 months in prison for his role in a fake LOC scam, followed by 3 years of supervised release. Prosecutors said he lured small business victims into making ...

The stream of announcements coming out of BriteCap Financial garnered notice. It started with news of a $150M credit facility back in August, followed by announcements of a new CEO, CFO, CCO, VPs, and ...

Looking for big money? As a smaller funder your simple financial reports might not cut it when it comes to big investors. In fact, it’s a complaint frequently made by investment bankers and ...

deBanked attended and sponsored the final demo day of CAFE’s Fall 2024 Accelerator Cohort. CAFE, as previously profiled, is the non-profit Center for Advancing Financial Equity. The six members of the ...

“Lightspeed Capital revenue grew to $9.3 million from $4.2 million in Q2 of last year, up 121% year over year as the program continues to be popular with our customers,”” said Lightspeed CFO Asha ...