The passion driving WAIN Street comes from the conviction that the data and insights we create will help “Bridge Wall Street and Main Street.” We believe that financial techniques can be used for the greater purpose of fueling mid-market and small businesses to create jobs, innovate, and regain our economic prowess. Enabling Wall Street to …
When you claim something has “game changing potential” as WAIN Street does in reference to the Business Credit Health Index (BCH Index), there’s always going to be skeptics that have trouble seeing a bold vision. One thing that can really help ease that skepticism is outside validation of the general concept on which your claims …
At WAIN Street, our passion is “Bridging Wall Street and Main Street” – channeling the capabilities of Wall Street to solve the most pressing problems of Main Street businesses. Over the past few months, this passion has spilled over to our blog in the form of some pointed opinions about Occupy Wall Street, financial innovation, and the …
The middle market is getting a lot of love from people these days. And why shouldn’t they? They’re a roughly defined group of companies with somewhere between $10 million and $1 billion in revenue. It’s a broad range for sure, but contained in there are some of the real gems of the American economy. They’re companies …
As a start-up in the financial services industry looking to make waves with what we see as a game changing innovation, WAIN Street is perpetually trying to explain to anyone who’ll listen the value proposition of our Business Credit Health Index (BCH Index) and its application to understanding business credit portfolios. And nothing could …
There’s a very interesting pair of bills working its way through Congress right now around protecting the ability of companies to raise money through crowdfunding. Crowdfunding, popularized by Kickstarter and Kiva, has been around for a couple years now and even with some very sizeable start-up success stories, the start-up investment world has been dismissive. At least …
The Occupy Wall Street movement is on the cusp right now; the evictions from Zuccotti Park and other locations around the country was the first shot across the bow indicating that convergence on a common message was imperative to the movement’s continued survival. As the country descends into campaign mode and politicians from all sides begin to …
We knew it would happen eventually; the eye sore of a tent city in Zuccotti Park and dozens of other sites around the country wouldn’t be tolerated forever. Sure enough, they are being forcibly removed by police with pepper spray and horses. Like all parties, it had to end sometime; but not like all parties, …
The Governor of the Bank of Japan, Mr. Masaaki Shirakawa, delivered the keynote address at the Netherland Bank Conference last Friday. The focus was a discussion of financial innovation; he provides a brilliant analysis expanding on much of what our blog Good Innovation, Bad Innovation was suggesting. Its heartening to see the head central banker of Japan, world’s …
Magic or Bird… DeNiro or Pacino… Mac or PC What do all these things have in common? Nearly everyone will come down on one side of the debate citing some really compelling reasons; but at the end of the day neither has enough support for a conclusive determination. You can find a lot of Op-Ed …
