When Farmingdale, Long Island-based Critical Financing (CFI) showed up as the 2,671st fastest growing company on the Inc.

Utsav Shah first met Kristen Castell at deBanked CONNECT MIAMI this past February. At the time, Shah and his partner Shivi ...

B2B Finance Expo is back for its highly anticipated second edition at the Wynn Las Vegas! We're thrilled to once again partner with the Small Business Finance Association (SBFA) to deliver an even ...

Gianna Ravenscroft brings deep banking, fintech, nonbank lending and consumer financial services experience to Firm’s Financial Services Group SAN DIEGO—October 15, 2025—Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP ...

LOS ANGELES, CALIF. (October 13, 2025) – Maxim Commercial Capital (“Maxim”) announced it countered industry trends during the third quarter of 2025 by delivering essential hard asset secured financing ...

The submitted deals are real. The merchants are real. Everything checks out until suddenly it doesn’t. The merchants block the payments and find out they’ve been scammed.The funders find out they’ve ...

The largest merchant cash advance in history (at $40 million), first publicly disclosed in 2018, has been outdone. On Tuesday, the Receiver in the Par Funding SEC case revealed that its largest ...

Shopify Capital originated $837 million in business loans and merchant cash advances in Q3, putting the grand total at $2.1B for the first 3 quarters. During the earnings call, Shopify said that loss ...

LightSpeed Capital, the MCA division of LightSpeed Commerce, has over $100M in merchant cash advances on its balance sheet, according to the company’s latest quarterly earnings report. The POS company ...

deBanked examined the public messaging from some of the largest publicly traded merchant cash advance facilitators in the US and this is what it found: A merchant cash advance is a purchase of your ...

Eight individuals have been arrested by the FBI and charged in connection with a scheme to defraud small business owners out of millions of dollars by charging them money in return for a promise of a ...

Edward William Rennick III, a known debt relief scammer previously barred from the debt relief industry by the FTC, continued on with his scheme for years after the ban. He is now charged criminally ...