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Uh, John, go ahead. For those that don't know you,

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that are watching this at home,

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go ahead and introduce yourself and the company that you are with.

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Sure. My name's John Milligan.

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I'm the Chief Operating Officer at World Business Lenders,

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and we're excited to be, you know, back up and running again.

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We know we had a slight pause in our, in our business model in the spring,

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but we're back in funding and we're real excited to be here at Broker Fair.

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So, so far, I mean, broker fair is, we're, we're in,

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we're in a couple of hours of, you know,

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just the action and the different panels and all that. So far,

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what's been your experience here?

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Oh, the energy is fantastic. You know,

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it's amazing to see all these brokers out, you know, bringing a lot of deals.

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They're excited to talk about what we can do, and they look at 23 as a,

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a big opportunity for us, you know,

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with the implosion of the traditional markets, you know,

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the banking industry struggling, you know,

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there's a lot of alternative financing, availability,

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and we're just excited to be part of it.

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So, John, you said something earlier that, you know,

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you guys had to pause and now we're seeing that in the, in this space,

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it's a very transitional time period. There's a lot going on.

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So the different topics that are gonna, that are being talked about today, uh,

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what are you looking forward to the most?

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Um, I'm looking forward to the exciting growth opportunities,

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especially in our area, the real estate backed lending, right? The options for,

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you know,

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some of our merchants to get financing through traditional sources is really dry

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up.

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So we're happy to be here as a resource for them and to give that option to our

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brokers to, to promote to their merchants that we have capital,

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we're ready to land,

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and we really wanna do things to help our merchants stay in business and be

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successful.

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So how important is it for, you know,

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your business and also for other businesses to come to an event like this, uh,

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when they're trying to maneuver the industry in a time like this?

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Well, I think it's, it's very critical to come to events like this,

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especially at this juncture, because with so much influx and so much change,

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this is where you get to meet, you know, with other industry leaders,

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you get to find out what the trends are, what's what's happening,

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and you get to really get your message out to the market. And so it's,

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it's a very invaluable, um, opportunity for Wbl.

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So for you being here,

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what message would you have to people watching this about your business and

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about the, the space in general?

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Well, again, like I said before, I think that the space is growing.

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I think we're really excited about the opportunity and world business lenders,

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again, has a whole fresh set of capital. We're ready to land.

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We've got new programs,

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we've got ways for brokers to self-serve through our ISO express model,

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which is brand new. We've got a full digital API model, and then of course,

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our traditional model where you work with one of our internal sales reps.

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So we're making it very easy and very transparent for our brokers to find access

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to the funding for their merchants that they need.

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And we're just excited to be back in market and go full steam ahead.

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Awesome. Well, John, thank you for your time.

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I'm gonna go ahead and let you enjoy the event.

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I know there's a lot going on here,

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so there's a lot of people to meet and network. So it's, uh,

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it's definitely an eventful day so far.

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Absolutely. Thank you so much.

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All right. No problem, John. Enjoy the day. Thank you.