What Revenue Based Financing Is and Isn’t, and What I Hope It Will Become

First inning thoughts on the growing movement in commercial finance.

The Buzz around RBF

To the extent commercial lending is ever ‘cool,’ revenue based financing (RBF) may be having its moment.

One reason for the excitement is that RBF firms await a tremendous opportunity to help fund the resurgence of our economy. Pent-up demand is expected to propel a period of at least initial economic growth. Small and medium sized businesses already need funding to reopen, restart and expand. New businesses will need capital to start up and grow. Banks, which never fully resumed lending to small businesses at pre-Recession…