December 20, 2016Small nonemployer businesses—those with no employees other than the firms’ owners—make up nearly 80% of all U.S. firms in number.…- July 20, 2016The Finance FAQ outlines the borrowing and lending universe for startups and existing small businesses, provides demographic information, and touches…
May 24, 2016Opportunity Fund released a very important research report, “Unaffordable and Unsustainable: The New Business Lending on Main Street.” Until now,…
March 1, 2016Seven Federal Reserve Banks released Small Business Credit Survey: Report on Employer Firms. The three main findings: financing success improved in…- January 1, 2016The DBO on Dec. 11, 2015, launched an inquiry into the so-called online, or alternative, lending sector. The inquiry’s objective…
- March 2, 2015Joyce Klein of Aspen Institute’s FIELD program writes how impact investments can be used to scale microlending. The essay appears in…
January 26, 2015Since 2010, the Federal Reserve has been monitoring small business credit conditions through regional surveys of business owners. In 2014,…
December 17, 2014The Bottom Line: Investing for Impact on Economic Mobility in the U.S. draws on the lessons from market-based approaches to…
December 23, 2013The California Reinvestment Coalition’s (CRC) 2010 economic development report documented a dramatic two-thirds plunge in critical bank lending to California…- September 1, 2013The Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland sponsored an online survey of small businesses, which was conducted from July 1 through…
