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Broker Fair 2019 Makes Major Splash in the Heart of Manhattan
May 10, 2019
If a tiny ray of light were created from every conversation about small business financing, then the Roosevelt Hotel in midtown Manhattan would have been tantamount to the sun on May 6th. It was the site of deBanked’s 2nd annual Broker Fair and the grand old lobby was abuzz with brokers, funders and vendors from across the industry. And it wasn’t only the lobby. The hallways and ball rooms and bathrooms were filled with people in jackets or dresses with colorful conference badges hanging from their necks. You could not open your eyes without seeing a Broker Fair attendee.
The day kicked off with an address to the crowd by deBanked’s founder and president Sean Murray.
He spoke to a packed audience in one of the hotel ballrooms that was actually the site of a famous scene in the 1987 movie, “Wall Street,” starring Charlie Sheen and Michael Douglas. It was in this scene where one of the most well-known lines, “Greed is good,” was delivered in a speech by the character Gordon Gekko, a ruthless businessman played by Michael Douglas.
In Murray’s speech, he acknowledged the classic financial thriller, but gave it a twist.
“Funding small business is good,” Murray said. “It’s not greed that’s good. Aligned interests are good.”
This very room was a marriage of old and new. The 1924 room with soaring ceilings and crystal chandeliers was packed with mostly young faces in a still relatively new industry. The stage was simple, the chairs sleek, and colored strobe lights circled the ceiling in what created a fresh energy.
The first panel of the day, called “The Great Debate,” was dominated by discussion of technology among the CEOs of some of the largest companies in the small business funding industry: National Funding, Rapid Finance, BFS Capital, and Kapitus.
“Technology is an inevitability and a powerful way for brokers to stay relevant,” BFS CEO Mark Ruddock told deBanked. “The question is, ‘Does that preclude the small [brokers] who don’t have the money to invest in technology?’”
He sees great opportunity for software platforms that can connect an individual broker to lenders, similar to how Shopify connects small mom and pop retailers to a wider consumer audience.
One of the other CEOs on the panel said he was bullish on digitally savvy brokers and all of them seemed to agree that brokers should offer more products.
“Having a broader set of products benefits brokers because they become the go-to person for merchants rather than simply serve a transactional function,” Chairman of RapidAdvance Jeremy Brown told deBanked.
For brokers looking to expand their product offerings, there was a well-attended session called “Commissions with Factoring and Leasing” that was led by factoring and leasing professionals, Phil Dushey and Edward Kaye, respectively.
Meanwhile, the co-founders of the successful brokerage Everlasting Capital, led a session called “How to Scale Your Broker Shop” which included advice on everything from hiring to customer acquisition and social media marketing. One of the founders, Josh Feinberg, had his marketing person follow him around with a video camera throughout the day.
There were also sessions on regulations affecting the industry, plus a session called “Operating with Integrity: Why Ethics Matter.”
“The speakers are very relevant,” said Dexter Bataille, a broker at Pivotal Funding in Florida who attended Broker Fair. “And the panels are really good too.”
“deBanked always finds ways to make the shows more professional,” said Senior Sales Leader at Reliant Funding Nicolas Marr, who flew in from California to attend the conference. “The details really count.”
In another hotel ballroom, Broker Fair attendees meandered around high tables where event sponsors had representatives talking about their products and handing out free t-shirts and pens. As the day wound down and Broker Fair’s “networking happy hour” approached its end at 6 p.m., the figurative sun (created by small business finance conversations) began to set at the Roosevelt Hotel. But a crowd of about 100 lingered at the hotel bar, buzzing away, eager to make just a few more connections.
The small business financing sun will rise again on July 25 at deBank’s next event, deBanked CONNECT in Toronto. Tickets are already available.
Merchant Cash Advance Community Teams up for Charity
September 27, 2012You may have seen the news story somewhere already: Twelve Members of the Alternative Small Business Lending Community Join Forces for Charity, but you haven’t heard the background of all the companies involved. We’d like to shed some light on the competitors that are battling it out in an epic competition of fantasy football:
Merchant Cash Group
Based in Gainesville, FL, they are a charity league co-founder and direct provider of capital. They recently launched their Fast Funding Equity Program, a unique financial solution to merchants that may not be able to get approved anywhere else.
Competing for: Kiva
Kiva is a non-profit organization with a mission to connect people through lending to alleviate poverty.
Rapid Capital Funding
Based in Miami, FL, they are a direct financing source. They are one of the industry’s fastest growing companies and recently acquired a major credit facility from Veritas Financial Partners.
Competing for: Epilepsy Foundation
Financial Advantage Group
Based in Land O’Lakes, FL, they have been a financial provider since 2004. They have helped fund some big name franchises including individual locations for Sonic, Dunkin’ Donuts, and Quiznos.
Competing for: Society of St. Vincent De Paul
The Society of St. Vincent de Paul offers tangible assistance to those in need on a person-to-person basis.
RapidAdvance
Based in Bethesda, MD, RapidAdvance is one of the oldest and largest MCA firms in the country. They are often called upon to offer expert insight on the industry.
Competing for: Cystic Fibrosis Foundation
This foundation is the world’s leader in the search for a cure for cystic fibrosis.
Sure Payment Solutions
Based in New York City, they made a name for themselves by offering low credit card processing rates to merchants nationwide and expanded on that success by providing businesses with financing. They are well known for their industry blog, Sure Resources.
Competing for: ALS Association
The ALS Association is the only national non-profit organization fighting Lou Gehrig’s Disease on every front.
Meridian Leads
Meridian provides direct marketing programs for financial services companies. They are one of the most used and acclaimed marketing firms in the MCA space.
Competing for: 100 Urban Entrepreneurs
100 Urban Entrepreneurs is dedicated to helping provide a meaningful, long-term economic boost to urban communities throughout the United States by supporting minority entrepreneurship at its earliest stages.
Merchant Cash and Capital
Headquartered in New York City, they have funded over half a billion dollars to small businesses since 2005. They’re heavily involved in the financing of retail and food service franchises. Check out their new website.
Competing for: Gift of Life Bone Marrow Foundation – on behalf of The Silver Project
Gift of Life is a world leader facilitating transplants for children and adults suffering from many life-threatening diseases, among them leukemia and lymphoma.
NVMS, Inc.
A Manassas, VA firm, NVMS offers a full range of inspection services for the Mortgage, Banking, Commercial and Residential Property, Construction and Insurance industries. They’ve established a stellar reputation and are the inspection company of choice for many MCA providers.
Competing for: The Missionaries of our Lady of Divine Mercy
They provide humanitarian assistance to those suffering from poverty
United Capital Source
Based in Long Island, NY, United Capital Source has garnered much attention from their recent spate of seven figure financing deals. They are constantly adding new staff to satisfy the incredible demand for funding from mid-sized businesses.
Competing for: Smile Train
Smile Train partners with local surgeons in developing countries to provide free cleft care for poor children and follow-up services 24/7, 365 days a year.
Swift Capital
From the wonderful city of Wilmington, DE, Swift Capital has made a major splash in the alternative business loan space with low cost working capital. They have helped over 10,000 small businesses nationwide.
Competing for: American Heart Association
This association helps to build healthier lives, free of cardiovascular diseases and stroke.
TakeCharge Capital
TakeCharge Capital has offices in Connecticut, Mississippi, and Florida. They built their reputation on spectacular payment processing services and grew into becoming a national financing provider.
Competing for: Distressed Children & Infants International
DCI’s primary objective is to provide children in rural areas the opportunity to receive an education instead of entering into child labor.
Raharney Capital, LLC
Raharney Capital is a Merchant Cash Advance industry consulting firm based in New York City. They are a charity league co-founder and the operators of this very website, Merchant Processing Resource.
Competing for: Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship
This organization’s mission is to provide programs that inspire young people from low-income communities to stay in school, to recognize business opportunities and to plan for successful futures.
The above companies are participants in the Merchant Cash Advance/ Microloan fantasy football league. Other firms within the same industry are constantly making charitable efforts as well, such as Yellowstone Capital. They recently raised money to help Hatzalah Volunteer Ambulance Corp acquire two ambulances. Noticeable company donors included Strategic Funding Source and Benchmark Merchant Solutions.
All of the mentioned firms are strongly recommending others to donate to the charities they are representing. In addition, any company or person that would like to contribute to the competition’s prize donation can do so by contacting sean@raharneycapital.com or heather@merchantcashgroup.com. We are not accepting contributions to individual charities, only to the prize donation that will be given to the winner’s charity. $5,850 has already been pledged to the prize as of the publication of this story.
– Merchant Processing Resource
https://debanked.com
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Jason Reddish Talks Business Lending On Cleveland Radio
June 14, 2016Total Merchant Resources CEO Jason Reddish talked all things lending on AM 1490 in Cleveland, Ohio recently, including much about the alternative business financing industry. Have a listen below:
Reddish was also kind enough to give a shout out to deBanked at about 9 and a half minutes in.
Reddish and his business partner Val Pinkhasov made a splash in the industry after their appearance on ABC’s Shark Tank in 2013.
Movember Rocked!
December 1, 2012
Movember: Mo’ Merchants, Mo’ Deals
The pre-holiday season is usually big in the Merchant Cash Advance (MCA) industry but this year seemed different. We’ve been saying that we’ve entered a new era for a long time, but it’s finally starting to seem real. It feels like 2007 again in a way, when everybody was getting rich and nobody even knew what the heck they were selling. It took years for account reps to finally stop referring to advances as loans and by then it was too late because the ACH loan industry was born.
E-mails like this don’t happen very much anymore:
You know… the ones where the deal would be blatantly shotgunned to multiple companies at once. The major broker shops would “accidentally” CC everyone instead of BCC to let the funders know who was in charge.
That’s not to say that deals don’t get shopped, Some do, but the circumstances have changed. To minimize the risk of being flooded with bad paper, funders ask resellers to put their money where their mouth is. The syndication game has become THE game in town and it’s led to Super ISO networks like the Factor Exchange. A user on the DailyFunder that seems to be intimately familiar with Factor Exchange is quoted as explaining the model like this:
The “mom and pop” ISOs and “Onesy-Twosey” brokers are backed by one giant ISO network and The Factor Exchange assumes half of the risk by syndicating 50% on nearly ever deal…
The massive volume of FEX submissions to lenders gives the ISOs power to negotiate for better rates and terms, One point of submission reaches 15+ lenders, the merchants credit is only pulled once, and the commission is passed straight through to the ISOs because FEX makes their money from participation.
Companies like this empower the smaller brokerages…
Who Did Mo’ Deals in Movember?
Yellowstone Capital broke their single day funding record… TWICE. This actually happened on back to back days. Executive management reported that they funded approximately $3 million in 48 hours.
Who Got Mo’ Money?
Wall Street wizard and business professor, Steven Mandis acquired a stake in Bethesda-based RapidAdvance. The news is all the more interesting with the fact that RapidAdvance is easily one of the top 5 largest players in MCA. Single individuals don’t exactly just walk through door and buy a stake in companies like this. Mandis is taking on a Strategic Advisor position and it’s our guess Rapid is about to enter another major phase of growth.
Who Got Mo’ Likes?
Merchant Cash and Capital’s (MCC) facebook fan page has gotten thousands of Likes since the third week of Movember when they announced their charity campaign. For every new Like until December 7th, MCC is donating $1 to the American Red Cross to help people that were affected by Hurricane Sandy.
Who Got Mo’ Wins?
RapidAdvance was the first team to clinch the playoffs in the MCA industry fantasy football league for charity. Something tells us that Mandis is behind their incredible winning streak.
Who got Mo’ Leads?
You did if you bought leads from either one of our lead advertising partners, Meridian Leads or SmallBusinessLoanRates.com.
Lendio has also been making a splash on the MCA lead scene with Dave Young being a big contributor on DailyFunder. To discuss pricing, he can be reached at dave.young[at]lendio.com
Who lied Mo’?
According to CNN’s statistics, 247 million people in the U.S. went shopping on Black Friday. That’s equal to the entire American population over the age of 14. Something doesn’t smell right with these numbers. It’s our guess that CNN is using Mitt Romney’s polling experts. 😉
But someone else lied just a little bit Mo’. On Movember 26, 2012, PRWeb published a release that claimed ICOA Inc., a small tech company in Rhode Island was acquired by Google for $400 Million. The release turned out to be a hoax as part of a stock pump and dump scheme. Many critics have been left wondering why PRWeb didn’t do anything to verify its authenticity. Considering PRWeb is such a widely used PR service in the MCA space, we can testify that they’ll pretty much publish anything so long as you pay the fee. Some smaller companies use it as part of their SEO campaigns, which explains why there are so many strange looking releases out there that seem to repeat the same keyword in every sentence.
ABC Funding Co Just announced a program that will help small businesses in need of cash by providing these small businesses in need of cash with a special type of financing that will hep them if they are a small business in need of cash. Not exactly New York Times material…
Will Movember be followed by Make-a-lot-of-Doughcember? We’ll find out!
– Mo’chant Processing Resource
https://debanked.com
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