Posts Tagged Banks

Commercial Tips 3-3-10

OK, I admit it. I’m an Olympics Junkie. As ashamed as I am to admit it, I even occasionally tuned in to the Curling competition. Not that I could understand the scoring in that most obscure of sports! All I knew was that it was the Olympics and I wanted to [...]

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Managing Your Business’ Money, Step 4

8 Steps in Managing Your Business’ Money As I mentioned last week, knowing “your numbers” associated with your business gives you the power to plan in order to meet your goals. Last week, continuing the summary of Rich Sloan’s article on startup nation.com, we reviewed strategies for cutting your expenses.  This week [...]

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Who Will Fill The Gap?

As we close out 2008, I have noticed that the banks are lending less because they are not liquid.  However, we face the rollover of Billions of dollars worth of commercial CMBS loans in early 2009.  To whom will these owners turn for funding? I see three options at this time. First, the insurance companies, [...]

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Liquidity Is Drying Up

The lack of Wall Street securitization is now affecting the majority of commercial lenders.  We are seeing many banks “tighten” underwriting standards to reduce the number of loan submissions.  The regulators are doing their part to make banks reduce their exposure to commercial real estate.  This is creating a thin capital market for the foreseeable [...]

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