Posts Tagged ‘dodd frank’

July 31, 2013 By Bob Coleman Editor, Coleman Report Bob Coleman: We’re talking with Rich Carlson, Regional Director at InterContinental Hotels Group, IHG at The BoeFly Franchise Lending Spotlight Conference 2013 in Southern California. I think I got that all in. Rich Carlson: I think you got it, thank you. Bob Coleman: Rich, you’re the…

July 30, 2013 By Bob Coleman Editor, Coleman Report There is a Summer SBA Lender Conference near You in Detroit, Oklahoma City and Orlando! I look forward to speaking on Thursday in Detroit at the Great Lakes Lender Conference. If you are attending, and I just checked their website that they will take registrations at…

July 30, 2013 By Bob Coleman Editor, Coleman Report Next time you have some downsized corporate type with wanderlust in their eyes talking why you should risk your shareholder’s hard fought equity to fund their start-up franchise, whip out this article and give it to them. Franchise expert Joel Libava has penned a great article…

July 29, 2013 By Bob Coleman Editor, Coleman Report I’ve come across two recent articles that hammer home the point that the landscape of small business lending continues to change. And speed to market is more important to a segment of borrowers than rate. To meet his company’s payroll a borrower pawned a Picasso painting…

July 29, 2013 By Bob Coleman Editor, Coleman Report The defense asked for one year and one day, the prosecutors wanted 18 months, and that’s exactly what our fraudster got after his February guilty plea for bank fraud. Nothing fancy about the fraud. Seems someone was keeping the money that was intended to go to…

July 26, 2013 By Bob Coleman Editor, Coleman Report A Washington Post flattering piece about Wells Fargo small biz exec Lisa Stevens has some useful stats. 1)      With 20% of small businesses in industries that are directly impacted by the real estate market – construction, interior design, architectural services, landscaping – “we expect to see…

July 26, 2013 By Bob Coleman Editor, Coleman Report OK, OK, this morning’s report has nothing to do with small business lending, but as we enter the dog days of summer the news is a little light. But for all bankers, this is an excellent article of the history of the origins of the 7…

July 25, 2013 by Karen McHugh SBA Complete SBA requires lenders to report information to the appropriate credit reporting agencies whenever they extend credit with an SBA loan. Thereafter, the lender should continue to routinely report information concerning servicing, liquidation, and charge-off activities throughout the life cycle of the loan. This appears to be rather…

July 25, 2013 By Bob Coleman Editor, Coleman Report Further proof there is a true access of capital by Main Street, right? Not really says Case Western Reserve’s Scott Shane. He crunches a lot of numbers and he writes the driver of higher employment numbers by big companies is the decline of “job destruction.” That…

July 24, 2013 By Bob Coleman Editor,  Coleman Report Limited access to capital for Main Street is a worldwide problem that extends from America’s shores. Add the UK to the list of failed government policies for Main Street. A “scheme” to get  £1.1 billion to middle market firms has only funded £5 million in the…