ROXOBEL, N.C.—Danielle Baker wanted a $324,000 loan last year to expand the peanut-processing business she ran from the family farm. She had a longstanding relationship with the Roxobel branch of Southern Bank, and she thought Southern would help fund the peanut operat...

Premium Merchant Funding is one of the fastest growing private Lenders on Wall Street. In the years following the 2008 Financial Crisis, it became apparent to the founders of PMF, that a major reason the American economy was rebounding so slowly was that lost fortunes,...

 Kari Lukovics, Axial | June 13, 2017

Competition is brewing in the middle market — and a lot of it has to do with the growing diversity of buyer types. “There is more capital, from a wider variety of sources, that is looking to be deployed than ever before,”...

Every business owner knows the challenges of maintaining business cash flow. This is especially true when your customers/clients pay for goods and services in 30, 60, or 90 days. Invoice factoring offers your business the ability to turn outstanding invoices into cash....

After the financial crisis, the government, in the form of the Federal Reserve, the Comptroller of the Currency and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, imposed liquidity requirements that force American banks with assets over $50 billion to hold huge amounts of...