Category: Lending Industry

Alternative Business Loans Assist Small Businesses

Alternative Business Loans Help Businesses Grow The reputation of the alternative lending industry is suffering due to the proliferation of exposés using isolated incidents as circumstantial evidence aiming to delegitimize the industry as a whole. It is imperative to address this hot button issue. Why? Because lone wolf incidents aside, alternative lending is the backbone […]

How Shield Funding is Improving the Small Business Loans Industry

There is no doubt that acquiring a small business loan with bad credit has been an insurmountable obstacle for many small business owners. The lack of capital available to small business owners has been the single most important contributor to stunting the economic growth of small businesses. With the strict credit requirements in place today […]

Small Business Lending After the Recession

There has been a lot of controversy lately over who is responsible for the small business community’s struggles with finding loans. Any business owner looking for a small business loan today knows how difficult it can be to find a lender willing to give their business money. Since the financial collapse of 2008 the access […]

Shield Funding Ranked Number One for Alternative Business Loans

Shield Funding has been ranked the #1 provider of alternative business loans by a leading information provider in the industry. The ranking process considers a variety of factors when determining a winner and some of those factors include: client references, market performance, as well as a variety of other research statistics. In our effort to […]

Why Bad Credit Does Not Scare Lenders

Bad credit can make it difficult to obtain credit in almost type of financing, so why are there so many lenders willing to provide business loans with bad credit? First of all, although bad credit demonstrates a borrower’s inability to pay their bills on time in almost every aspect of life, in the business world […]

Business Loan Competition is Great for Borrowers

The business loan industry has become very competitive as a result of technological advancements. At one time banks were the main providers of funding to small and medium sized businesses, and their only competition was mainly with each other. Now banks must compete with online private lending organizations, social media lending networks such as crowdfunding […]

Small Business Lending Prepares Companies for Summer Customers

The summer is coming once again and the power of seasonal business can make or break a company. The companies that take the necessary steps to ensure that they are prepared for the increased levels of business and the market opportunities that arise are the most likely to end up on top. Those businesses that […]

Small Business Loans Create a Healthy Economy

There are three types of businesses in the economy, the large aggressive corporate companies with names that everybody knows, the medium sized companies that are approaching the aggressive stage or just left the small stage, and then there is the local “mom and pop shops” and other small businesses that are only known to the […]

How Access to Capital Restricts Small Business Owners

There are so many different ways that not having access to capital can affect your business. Probably the most significant effect would be the inability to expand your company. There are also many smaller effects that are intricately tied to the growth of a business, such as a lack or reduction in hiring, or the […]

The Great Small Business Loan Hype

Private lending continues to grow as banks cannot risk funding the majority of applicants today. With the financial crisis still in the rear view mirror lending institutions are a long way from giving small businesses money. Let’s face it, since 2008 banks are under serious scrutiny and are not allowed to fail. Loans to small […]

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