Revenue Based Financing

Virginia Hops on the Commercial Finance APR Disclosure Bandwagon

January 14, 2022
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Virginia Capitol Building in RichmondAdd Virginia to the list of states introducing initiatives to codify disclosures in commercial finance. Virginia House Bill 1027 is aimed squarely at “sales-based financing providers.”

The Virginia bill calls for an estimated APR to be disclosed on sales-based financing contracts using methods conceived in New York’s recent legislation.

As has been witnessed, however, New York’s regulators recently discovered weaknesses in their own law.

The Virginia bill is in its very early stages. It was introduced on Wednesday, January 12th by Delegate Kathy K.L. Tran (D).