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Vance announced 870,000 pandemic-loan borrowers barred from federal credit. The surge behind it charged 160.

Capital After Hours at Sixty Vines was our biggest yet. View event photos and get tickets now for the next event on December 3 in Fort Lauderdale.

A New Jersey childcare operator got a year and a day for a $535,000 PPP loan. Her own EIDL file convicted her.

Small business optimism dipped 1.1 points to 98.7 in August as sales fell to a 10-month low, but expectations for credit conditions reached their best level since 2024.

Capital After Hours is tonight at Sixty Vines on Las Olas. Join business lending, fintech and commercial finance professionals for networking, food, drinks and football.

SBA SOP 50 10 8.1 takes effect October 1, 2026. What changes for 7(a) acquisition deals: 1.25x DSC, mandatory Quality of Earnings at $3M, capped investor equity, and the seller note myth.

PPP Fraud Prosecutions Continue: A Phoenix man got 15 months for $1M in PPP loans. A California man faces three counts over $2.9M in PPP loans.

Explore the benefits of merchant cash advances and revenue-based financing, including speed, access, flexible underwriting and opportunity cost.

Leor Moshe of Toms River, New Jersey pleaded guilty on August 13, 2026 to wire fraud after raising roughly $47 million from at least 87 investors.

CDFIs have filed a lawsuit against the Treasury and OMB, fighting to release hundreds of millions in bipartisan-approved capital for small businesses.

Arthur Spitzer pleaded guilty to mortgage fraud and $1.8M in EIDL fraud. Why COVID relief was the easiest mark a paper fraudster ever found.

Equipment finance volume hit a record $14.3B in July as AI investment surged, small-ticket deals soared and credit losses moved lower.

Stripe and Advent ended their pursuit of PayPal after a reported $53 billion takeover approach, leaving the payments giant independent for now.

DOJ alleges SIMAD owner Michael Shabsels and related companies improperly obtained over $13 million in PPP loans before their 2026 collapse.

Dallas loan broker Kwanghee Anh fled the U.S. for years after a $29M bank fraud scheme. She was caught in South Korea and sentenced to 58 months.

Parafin now powers SpotOn Capital, bringing embedded financing, business-performance underwriting and lower costs to restaurant operators.

Luminar Capital secured a $5 million senior credit facility, scalable to $15 million, to expand small business funding, products and ISO partnerships.

California AB 2116 has cleared the Legislature and could require commercial finance providers and brokers to obtain DFPI licenses beginning in 2028.

An updated Porter's Five Forces analysis of alternative business lending, capital supplier power collapsed, embedded platforms reshaped rivalry, and consolidation arrived.

A Georgia businessman faces bank and wire fraud charges after prosecutors say he used fabricated brokerage statements and forged documents to obtain $24 million in financing.

Clearco secured a $100M asset-backed facility from Macquarie, which could support ~$900M in e-commerce funding as the once-$2B fintech makes a comeback.

Capital After Hours returns to Sixty Vines Las Olas on September 9 for business lending and fintech networking, premium drinks, food and NFL Opening Night.

A former Sweetwater commissioner, Sophia Lacayo, got 18 months for $948K in PPP fraud, sentenced in May, announced by DOJ in August.

Carmine Agnello, grandson of mob boss John Gotti, has begun his 15-month prison term for $1.1M in COVID relief fraud after a judge denied further kidney transplant delays.