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The “M” of SMB

From The Wall Street Journal: Spotlight Shines On Mid-Sized Firms Are mid-sized firms the ignored middle child of the US economy? That’s what this recent WSJ article argues; and it highlights a new summit going on at Ohio State this week.  The “Middle Market Summit” is being bankrolled by a number of large companies (GE and …

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Lenders Need Relevant Benchmarks

From Bloomberg Businessweek: What We Don’t Know About Small Business Lending The 2008 crisis has shed some light on many problems with our financial system that have been either hidden or ignored. One of those problems is that we simply don’t have enough information about mid-market and small businesses.