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Asset-Based Lending: Advantages and Examples
There are many ways of raising the capital needed to grow a business, yet many companies default to a traditional cash flow-based loan. Asset-based lending is a lesser-known financing option that may make more sense.
Read MoreUnderstanding Asset-Based Lending and Its Benefits for Your Business
Even though a business generates significant assets it may still experience cash shortages. It may grow so rapidly that the company’s cash flow is not aligned with traditional borrowing requirements.
Read MoreMitigating Money Transfer Fraud in M&A
Latham & Watkins’ Bret Stancil and Bridge Bank’s Heather Kelly discuss the steps dealmakers can take to ensure that merger consideration is delivered to payees in an age of widespread fraud risk.
Read MoreDebt Strategies for Venture-Backed Startups
Recently, Mike Lederman, senior managing director in Bridge Bank’s Technology Banking Group, met up with Smart Brevity Studio to discuss debt strategies and the benefits of venture debt for startups.
Read MoreInflation and the Battle to Tame It Will Persist
Higher costs for goods and services permeated the economy in recent months, but will inflation persist or return to the 1% to 2% range that we have enjoyed in recent decades?
Read MoreHousing Costs to Keep Inflation Elevated
Peak inflation may be behind us and several factors that contributed to the high pace of inflation have eased in recent months.
Read MoreCommercial Real Estate as an Inflation Hedge
Commercial real estate is often considered an inflation hedge, but does this hold through varying market conditions?
Read MoreWill Workers Return to the Office?
As the world continues to adapt to living with the COVID-19 virus, employers and employees will adapt to new ways of working that will still necessitate physical office space.
Read MoreBay Area Multifamily Market Overview
The Bay Area multifamily rental market turned a corner in 2021 attracting new residents from outside the region along with some who returned.
Read MoreHow to Size Up a Commercial Real Estate Lender
Finding the right commercial real estate lender goes beyond loan types. Here are seven traits to seek in your commercial real estate bank.
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