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CFO February 1, 2006 Don Durfee |
Meet Your New Bankers Hedge funds have a pile of cash to lend. Should you take it?  |
National Real Estate Investor May 1, 2007 W. Joseph Caton |
Small-Cap Attraction The business of buying, managing and trading smaller commercial properties has now become a favored target market of both portfolio and conduit lenders.  |
Commercial Investment Real Estate Nov/Dec 2009 Steve Bram |
Capital Markets Conundrum Are there viable solutions to today's financing puzzle?  |
Inc. January 1, 2003 Martin Mayer |
A Borrower Be Tough economies and easy credit usually don't mix. So why are banks falling all over themselves to lend small businesses money?  |
BusinessWeek October 23, 2006 |
Danger--Explosive Loans Collateralized loan obligations offer loads of cheap money. But payback time may be coming.  |
National Real Estate Investor June 1, 2005 Kingsley Greenland |
Why Liquidity Should Help You Sleep Better There is no crystal ball that can predict the next lending squeeze, or if one will even occur. What is certain however, is that greater liquidity in the secondary market for commercial real estate loans is an important safety valve for the entire industry.  |
BusinessWeek October 20, 2003 Mara Der Hovanesian |
Prime Time For Prime-Rate Funds These funds can help protect you against the risk of higher interest rates.  |
National Real Estate Investor February 1, 2007 Ben Johnson |
Small Banks, Big Risks In the new era of commercial real estate lending, federal regulators are pressuring even the smallest banks to upgrade their portfolio analysis capabilities to avoid the pitfalls of past downturns.  |
CFO Joseph McCafferty |
Another Nick in the Wall Regulators are looking into allegations that banks are "tying" loans to other fee-based business.  |
BusinessWeek May 1, 2008 |
Navigating the Crunch A financial aid expert explains how borrowers can best ride it out.  |
The Motley Fool December 4, 2006 Dan Caplinger |
Avoid the Loan Sharks For those with less-than-perfect credit histories, there's a scary trend in personal finance these days. In the name of convenience, some borrowers are digging themselves into a hole from which they may never emerge.  |
CFO April 1, 2006 Randy Myers |
Money for Nothing Given their sanguine outlook, it's lenders who urge CFOs and treasurers who haven't already refinanced debt this year to jump on the bandwagon before it leaves town.  |
Commercial Investment Real Estate Jul/Aug 2004 Brown & Weiss |
The Money Race Borrowers benefit as lenders chase commercial property deals.  |
BusinessWeek September 3, 2007 Roben Farzad et al. |
Not So Smart In an era of easy money, financial institutions forgot that the party can't last forever.  |
Entrepreneur May 2008 Scott Bernard Nelson |
Between Peers Could a new wave of social lending sites be a good place for your investment dollars?  |
The Motley Fool April 24, 2007 Tim Beyers |
Quick Take: Have Banks Learned Nothing? When the subprime crisis first struck, Wall Street wondered whether it would spread to prime lenders such as Washington Mutual and Bank of America. Many investors appear to believe that it will.  |
CFO October 1, 2006 Alix Nyberg Stuart |
Are Your Secrets Safe? A shift in banks' business model raises questions about conflicts.  |
National Real Estate Investor August 1, 2006 Matt Hudgins |
Mesmerized by Mezzanine Mezzanine lending for commercial real estate is exploding.  |
Inc. February 2008 Robb Mandelbaum |
Soldiering On to Remake the SBA Steven Preston talks about efforts to improve the SBA's processes - and its image.  |
CFO September 1, 2003 Hilary Rosenberg |
Compromising Positions Will credit derivatives encourage more lending, or will they harm the interests of borrowers?  |
BusinessWeek August 20, 2007 Jack Ewing |
European Banks' Last Laugh (Extended) European lenders tend to keep the risk in-house, so they're more careful about who borrows. Home buyers take on a lot less debt.  |
Bank Systems & Technology September 29, 2005 Maria Bruno-Britz |
People Who Need People (And Their Money) Imagine if private citizens in search of loans were able to go online and receive their money from lenders - who just so happen to be private citizens as well? This unlikely concept actually is being put into action in the U.K. by a company called Zopa.  |
Entrepreneur April 2005 Crystal Detamore-Rodman |
Just Your Size Don't make assumptions about a bank's lending methods based on size alone--here's how to find the bank that can help your business cash in.  |
FDIC FYI February 27, 2002 |
Loan Weakness Spreads; Banks' Defenses Hold Large banks' business loans have been hit hardest by the recession, but some weakening is now appearing for smaller banks and for other kinds of loans...  |
The Motley Fool August 16, 2007 John Rosevear |
Buying a Home During the Storm Essentially, what's going on is that the mortgage industry -- along with Wall Street -- is rethinking the appropriate pricing for taking on the risk of a borrower with a less-than-prime credit history.  |
Investment Advisor August 2007 Jeff Joseph |
The Far Reach of Subprime Woes Leveraged loans to companies are likely to be adversely affected by hedge fund losses from collateralized debt obligations.  |
National Real Estate Investor April 1, 2003 Kingsley Greenland |
Liquidity Crisis Averted With a weak economy and the prospect of war, real estate investors are understandably nervous. The good news is that they aren't handcuffed by a 1990s-style liquidity crisis that brought the industry to a standstill a decade ago.  |
CFO October 1, 2006 Randy Myers |
A Change of Season Don't let a turn in the credit cycle catch you napping. What should corporate borrowers be doing? The most obvious course of action is to get while the getting is good.  |
U.S. Banker February 2008 John Adams |
Waiting for the Other Shoe To Drop? Not Really. We'll soon see how contagious the mortgage flu is for other banking business lines, particularly corporate lending.  |
Bank Technology News December 2007 Michael Sisk |
The Rise of Community P2P is no threat to banks -- yet -- but the rise of these exchanges, which cut out banks and allow people to lend directly to each other is a phenomenon worth studying. Are P2P exchanges the credit unions of the Internet age?  |
BusinessWeek September 17, 2007 Dawn Kopecki |
The SEC Wants More Answers The Securities & Exchange Commission is expanding its probe into the mortgage mess.  |
BusinessWeek September 3, 2007 Peter Coy |
It's Out Of Bernanke's Reach There's little the Fed can do about the information gap behind investors' panic.  |
HBS Working Knowledge August 4, 2014 |
Why Small-Business Lending Is Not Recovering Lending to small businesses has not returned to levels seen before the financial crisis. Karen Mills, former head of the US Small Business Administration, explains the reasons.  |
CFO October 1, 2006 Fink & Durfee |
The 2006 CFO Survey of Trends in Banking Finance executives' concerns about the banking industry.  |
The Motley Fool October 9, 2006 Dan Caplinger |
Know Your Numbers: Consumer Credit Use economic data to gain the upper hand in your investing. The Federal Reserve's consumer credit report provides some useful information about the borrowing practices of typical consumers.  |
CFO November 1, 2004 Randy Myers |
Squeezing the SBA Small-business borrowing may get more expensive.  |
BusinessWeek May 24, 2004 Palmeri & Hovanesian |
Before You Sell Your Bank Stocks... Many financial institutions are now insulated against higher interest rates  |
The Motley Fool November 23, 2007 Dan Caplinger |
Find the Right Student Loan College loans come in many varieties. Some have very attractive provisions and guarantees, but others can spell trouble for even the most responsible young adults.  |
Reason March 2009 Veronique de Rugy |
Dissatisfaction Guaranteed The government has decided to encourage more lenders to take more chances by guaranteeing yet more loans to high-risk borrowers. The only guarantee for these loans is that our children will be paying billions to cover the losses.  |
The Motley Fool June 27, 2007 Emil Lee |
Securitization Simplified Securitization is complicated, but understanding the mechanics will help you evaluate many financial companies. Here is a brief primer on collateralized debt obligations.  |
HBS Working Knowledge October 6, 2003 D. Quinn Mills |
The Problem with Hedge Funds Hedge funds are the New Big Thing -- and that's bad for the average investor, says professor D. Quinn Mills. An excerpt from Wheel, Deal, and Steal.  |
CFO March 1, 2008 Karen M. Kroll |
Pedaling As Fast As They Can Companies will now need to work harder for credit, as banks' markedly different posture on lending money is affecting businesses of all stripes -- not just those in default.  |
BusinessWeek August 27, 2009 James C. Cooper |
Business Outlook: Why Credit Growth Remains Slow Banks are still skittish about offering credit, and households and companies remain reluctant to borrow, creating drags on the recovery.  |
The Motley Fool February 1, 2010 Morgan Housel |
Banks Aren't Lending? Says Who? The popular chant that "banks aren't lending, banks aren't lending!" is grossly misconstrued.  |
AskMen.com March 4, 2001 Luis Rodrigues |
The Truth About Bank Loans When the time comes to borrow money from the bank to buy a house, a car or start a business, people still get extremely stressed about meeting with the banking loans officer...  |
CFO December 1, 2003 Randy Myers |
Basel's New Balance A new accord may soon help banks lend more for less.  |
Entrepreneur November 2004 C.J. Prince |
A Loan Time With small-business lending up across the board, now's a great time to get the capital you need.  |
The Motley Fool January 22, 2007 Nathan Parmelee |
Can Japanese Consumer Lenders Survive? There is little reason to think the fortunes of Japanese consumer lenders will improve. Investors, take note.  |
Registered Rep. March 1, 2008 Kristen French |
The Lending Squeeze The tightening credit conditions is causing some financial advisors to have trouble getting loans for clients.  |
National Real Estate Investor January 1, 2005 Matt Hudgins |
Leaping Through The Lending Trough According to the normal rhythms of the real estate industry, the first years of this decade should have been a slow period for lenders. To the delight of the mortgage industry, it hasn't worked out that way.  |