When Farmingdale, Long Island-based Critical Financing (CFI) showed up as the 2,671st fastest growing company on the Inc.

B2B Finance Expo is back for its highly anticipated second edition at the Wynn Las Vegas! We're thrilled to once again partner with the Small Business Finance Association (SBFA) to deliver an even ...

Utsav Shah first met Kristen Castell at deBanked CONNECT MIAMI this past February. At the time, Shah and his partner Shivi ...

BHG Financial had loan originations of $1.5B in the 2nd quarter of 2025, up from 1.2B YoY. The company is 49% owned by Pinnacle Bank. The company’s trending 30-day commercial past-due rate has been ...

When deBanked stumbled upon a scoop that DoorDash had begun offering merchant cash advances in late 2021, the tech and financing team behind it had not been on anyone’s radar. That company was Parafin ...

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LightSpeed Capital, the MCA division of LightSpeed Commerce, has over $100M in merchant cash advances on its balance sheet, according to the company’s latest quarterly earnings report. The POS company ...

Bob Coleman, founder of Coleman Report, the leading provider of information to small business bankers to help them make less risky small business loans, recently authored a book. Titled Easy Money, ...