Financing Sponsors Rustle Up Success for Dunkin’ Donuts Franchisees

Loan Approved

Every Dunkin’ Donuts franchise owner is unique—indeed, every shop is—and as such, each has different financing needs. With a dozen financing Sponsors currently on board and more in the pipeline, DDIFO is delivering … [Read more...]

Commercial Real Estate Financing Available Through SBA 504 Loan Program

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McLean, Virginia (PRESS RELEASE – February 19, 2011) – Starting February 28, 2011, the U.S. Small Business Administration’s (SBA) 504 loan program will begin accepting applications for refinancing of existing … [Read more...]

A Signing for Small Business

Kent Hoover reports at Portfolio.com that as President Obama he signed a hard-fought small-business lending measure into law, he said it is the "most significant step" to help small firms in more than a … [Read more...]

Direct Capital Streamlines Franchise Financing

After a decade of working with Dunkin’ Donuts and Baskin-Robbins franchise owners, Direct Capital Franchise Group (Direct Capital) is enhancing and expanding its services in ways that aim to ease your access to … [Read more...]

Senate Set to Pass Small-business Bill

Jay Heflin reports at The Hill that Senate Small Business Chairwoman Mary Landrieu (D-La.) on Wednesday said her chamber will pass legislation by the end of the week that creates a $30 billion lending pool for small … [Read more...]

Tight Credit Is Turning Franchisers Into Lenders

Kermit Pattison writes in the New York Times that Mr. Tessier had owned a liquor store for nearly a decade. He had a good credit score and a solid track record as a businessman in central Georgia. He assumed lenders … [Read more...]

For franchisees, a new lender steps up to bat

CNN Money.com reports that a new player is charging into the arid landscape of banks willing to lend to franchise operators. Bancorp Bank, based in Wilmington, Del., said this week that it will launch a new program … [Read more...]

White House starts $21 million program to aid small businesses

David Cho of the Washington Post writes that in March 2009, President Obama vowed to address the drought of bank lending to small companies and announced an initiative to use $15 billion from the federal bailout to … [Read more...]

SBA Loan Breaks to go Away until Senate Acts

Kent Hoover of Biz Journals writes at MSN Money that government guaranteesthe b and reduced fees that revived U.S. Small Business Administration lending are going away again, at least for a while. The economic … [Read more...]

Citizens’ pain: A $600M loss

A unit of Citizens Financial Group recently reported a full-year net loss of $600.4 million for 2009 after charging off more than $2 billion in bad loans. RBS Citizens, the No. 2 retail bank in Massachusetts, … [Read more...]