Funding

Lovey’s £250 million facility highlights the broker-to-lender path. Explore syndication, direct funding and why brokers keep their referral businesses.

The Fed paused six days before Election Day, but a steady benchmark does not guarantee cheaper business financing. The evidence points to inflation and credit conditions…

Teya and finmid report an NPS of 86. Here’s why Net Promoter Score deserves more attention from funders, brokers and business-lending software providers.

Enova (ENVA), parent of OnDeck and Headway Capital, posted its first $1B revenue quarter, but SMB charge-offs and delinquencies rose year over year. Why shares fell 7%.

Richard Teplitsky has pleaded guilty to mail fraud in a decades-long investment scheme built around purported equipment loans. Federal prosecutors put the losses at $54.4 million.

Timothy Wadsworth got 51 months for a $2 million fraud spanning EIDL, PPP, unemployment and stolen credit cards. The relief money was not where it started.

Kara DiPietro won an SBA award, borrowed from Par Funding, and testified for the government. She now faces six counts of bank fraud over $2.5M in PPP loans.

A California man admitted drawing $4.6 million from a New Jersey factoring company against invoices his customers never owed. The structural gap that allowed it.

MidOcean and Idea Financial just launched a $225M push into $1M term loans. We break down the massive market hole for non-bank lines of credit and middle SMB debt.

Mohammed Maio was sentenced to 10 years for a $2.2 million pandemic loan scheme that ran four years. Why this sentence landed so much harder than most.

Ramp reaches a $60B valuation after raising $1.85B. Explore the interactive growth chart, Ramp's AI expansion, and potential business lending impact.

Capchase launches Mila, a 24/7 AI deal desk agent approving deals in 30 second, advancing Shane Mahabir's A2A lending prediction despite bank AI blocks.

In this episode of Funding Talk, Dragin CEO Mark Ross joins Shane Mahabir to discuss his transition from institutional finance into entrepreneurship in fintech.

Chloe, the AI sales teammate built into Close, has already made more than a million calls to real leads in real pipelines.

SBA's SOP 50 10 8.1 is now in effect, changing valuations, QoE reports, and outside-investor equity on acquisitions. What brokers need to requote.

California man convicted of SBA EIDL fraud after gambling $442K and paying a $100K kickback. The case raises questions about loan oversight.

FedEx Dataworks and Stripe will partner to use shipping and supply-chain data to help expand small business financing through Stripe Capital.

Capital After Hours returns Dec. 3 at Sixty Vines in Fort Lauderdale with three hours of networking, food, drinks and Thursday Night Football.

Block, Enova, Shopify and PayPal originated $5.6B in small-business financing in Q1 2026, up 69% in two years. Funder Intel's new working capital tracker charts every quarter.

Stripe's Parafin acquisition puts embedded lending in front of 5M+ businesses. What it means for brokers, lead buyers, and anyone competing on the open market.