Mug Shot Monday – The You Scratch My Back, I’ll Scratch Yours Con

February 24, 2014 By Bob Coleman Editor, Coleman Report This is a twist on a commercial lender con. The feds allege two Delaware commercial lenders, working for different banks, made loans to each other over a 12-year period for fake commercial real state investments and below market car loans. Brian Bailey plead not guilty last…

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504 Refinance Support Gains Momentum in House and Senate

February 21, 2014 By Bob Coleman Editor, Coleman Report Bob Coleman: The refinance is in the House, tell us where you see that process. Beth Solomon: We continue to build support for it. It’s a smart bi-partisan mechanism that leaders on both sides of the aisle are embracing. We have a new chairman of the…

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Coleman Thursday’s Movers and Shakers

February 20, 2014 By Bob Coleman Editor, Coleman Report Stephenie Frazier Whitfield Joins SouthCrest Bank as Senior Vice-President of SBA Lending Stephenie is a recognized visionary in small business lending,” says CEO Kenneth Maloy. “The experience she brings to the table will galvanize our efforts to meet the financial needs of businesses in our communities.” Stephenie…

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15% of Small Business’s Bankable says WSJ’s Ami Kassar

February 18, 2014 By Bob Coleman Editor, Coleman Report Writes our friend Ami in the Wall Street Journal, “A small percentage of small-business owners are bankable either with an SBA loan or a traditional bank loan. From the population of small-business owners that we work with at our loan brokerage, this group is about 15%.…

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Fraud Friday – Father & Son Plead Guilty in $1.7 Million USDA B&I Loan Fraud

February 14, 2014 By Bob Coleman Editor, Coleman Report A lender relying on a contractor’s certification of completion, disbursed $1.7 million to a father/son team, who coolly pocketed about $1.3 million for non-existent work. Dad was president and the son was CFO of a company that purchased a manufacturing facility out of bankruptcy. (Oh, and…

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Coleman Thursday’s Movers and Shakers

February 13, 2014 By Bob Coleman Editor, Coleman Report Deborah Possick Herron Joins GA Resource Capital “Deborah will certainly be an asset to GA Resource Capital as she has over 20 years of direct lending experience to small business owners with a primary emphasis on SBA 504 loans, commercial real estate and C&I lending. We…

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