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In this special crossover edition of Payments Pros and The Consumer Finance Podcast, Carlin McCrory and Jason Cover are joined by their colleague Caleb Rosenberg to explore the evolving landscape of small business financing....more
In this special crossover edition of the Payments Pros and Consumer Finance podcasts, Carlin McCrory and Jason Cover are joined by their colleague Caleb Rosenberg to explore the evolving landscape of small business financing....more
The Small Business Administration (SBA) has revived its Franchise Directory, providing significant benefits for franchise systems and their franchisees seeking financing. The directory returned June 1, 2025, as part of the...more
The US Small Business Administration (SBA) has reinstated its SBA Franchise Directory after a two-year hiatus. Widely hailed as a valuable resource by stakeholders, the SBA Franchise Directory is a list of franchisors...more
Ever since the 1995 CRA rule was published bank regulators have mandated certain “community” and “market” benchmarks as the basis for rating bank performance under the CRA regulations. Most of that data is in the public...more
On June 23, 2023, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signed into law Florida House Bill 1353, the latest in the growing trend of commercial financing disclosure laws (CFDLs). Florida follows the lead of California, Georgia, New...more
On May 1, Georgia signed SB 90 to become the latest state to require disclosures for small-business financing... Providers of commercial financing in the amount of $500,000 or less who conduct more than five transactions in...more
We recently reported that the Maryland Senate unanimously approved amended Senate Bill 496 – a broad measure proposed to curb perceived commercial lending abuses in Maryland. The bill has moved on to the House of Delegates...more
There has been increased focus on commercial financing transactions over the past few years. States have been moving to introduce consumer lending disclosure regimes to commercial financing. Several states, including...more
If you are a nonbank finance company that makes commercial loans of $2.5 million or less in New York or represent such a company, this Holland & Knight alert is for you. There has been a growing concern expressed over the...more
Over the past year, we have reported on the new wave of laws enacted and proposed in various states requiring consumer-like disclosures in commercial financing transactions. These state laws are often titled “Commercial...more
On June 9, California’s Office of Administrative Law approved commercial financing disclosure regulations (Regulations) which require consumer-like disclosures for certain commercial financing products such as small business...more
On October 20, the New York Department of Financial Services (NYDFS) published a notice in the New York State Register announcing that it has issued a proposed regulation to implement S 5470-B, which requires disclosures for...more
In the absence of a federal law requiring disclosures be provided to small businesses, regulators in California in 2018, and now New York, have jumped into the void. With the Enactment of the New York Commercial Finance...more
On September 21, 2021, New York’s Department of Financial Services (DFS) announced proposed regulations that clarify the small business Truth in Lending disclosure requirements that go into effect on January 1, 2022. The...more
In late December 2020, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo signed S.B. 5470 into law, which will impose a range of Truth in Lending Act-like disclosure requirements on providers of commercial financing in amounts of $500,000 or...more
A new year brings new compliance requirements for non-banks and fintechs conducting business in New York, including Merchant Cash Advance (MCA) companies. On December 23, 2020, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed SB5470...more
On December 23, 2020, New. York Governor Cuomo signed into law A10118A/S5470B requiring disclosures in various commercial financing transactions, including loans, merchant cash advances ("MCA"), and factoring transactions...more
In the News. The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) adopted broad exempt offering reforms; the Department of Labor (DOL) finalized a rule, with significant revisions from the original proposal, on ESG investments; the...more
On Thursday, July 23, 2020, the New York State Legislature voted to approve companion bills (S 5470/A 10118-A), commonly referred to as the “New York State Small Business Truth in Lending Act” (NY TILA). In passing the NY...more
Governor Brown signed into law SB 1235, a bill requiring consumer-like disclosures to be made on certain commercial finance products, including small business loans and merchant cash advances, among other things. ...more