mid-market

Taking the Pulse

At WAIN Street we’ve just released the Business Default Index (BDX) which provides a comprehensive, composite gauge of business defaults in the US. Needless-to-say, we’re excited about many things, but most importantly we believe the BDX provides a new perspective on often-ignored mid-market and small businesses. It’s enabling us to “take the pulse” and gain new insight …

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Why Not Wall Street

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 …

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The Risks You Know…

From The Economist: Pockets of Credit, Nineteenth Century Banking Makes a Comeback  This month’s article highlights a number of new firms that are going after middle market lending when many banks and other financial institutions have retreated from it. Some new funds, using not-federally-insured cash are making bets on specific segments of the middle market with …

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