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Most people who apply for a merchant cash advance do so because they’ve already been turned down for business loan from the bank. So it comes as no surprise that many of us might want to fudge the numbers around a little on our application. Before you do that, there are a few things you [...]

Looking for working capital doesn’t just happen during the initial phase of your business. Now that your doors are open, the need for working capital to either expand your business or keep it running smoothly remains. In the search for additional funding; you are faced with the question “should I get a loan from the [...]

ORIGIN OF MERCHANT BANKING  Merchant banks, now so called, are in fact the original “banks”. These were invented in the middle Ages by Italian grain merchants. As the Lombardy merchants and bankers grew in stature on the back of the Lombard plains cereal crops many of the displaced Jews who had fled persecution in Spain [...]