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Alternative Financing From Canadian Business Lenders . Special Loan Takeouts Or Growth Challenges

Guest post by: Stan Prokop

Article Overview: Information on alternative financing choices for Canadian business owners in a ‘ special loan ‘ environment . What happened and what lenders can assist you now ?

Alternative Financing From Canadian Business Lenders . Special Loan Takeouts Or Growth Challenges

We're fairly sure that most Canadian business owners and financial managers don't equate Canadian business financing with ' shopping ', although truth be told we do hear the term ' shop around ' quite a bit when talking to clients about alternative financing via bank or non-bank ( mostly non-bank!) lenders .



Unfortunately many of these firms are forced by necessity to do their shopping because they find themselves in the ' Special loan ' section of the bank, due to any number of events that have triggered a default situation. The bottom line, turnaround financing is required.



Let's examine some aspects of alternative finance solutions in Canada, as well as a re - focus on key issues within that damaged bank relationship.



It's no real secret that bank rates for commercial business financing are at all time lows .Even bank fees associated with business lines of credits are not all that unreasonable .



A ‘special loan ' scenario unfortunately seems to often tied to ' personalities ‘, i.e. the human side of business. Clients sometimes feel that Canadian banks or their own banker specifically does not ' understand ' their business. In fairness to Canadian bankers they are sometimes just challenging a client and should often be viewed as a ' sounding board ‘for challenges your business might face



A real challenge that drives many Canadian borrowers to alternative financing is the fact that the Canadian banking industry has a limited number of players, unlike the U.S. which as different tiers of commercial and business banking, with hundreds if not thousands of individual players.



Those Canadian business people that have ' been around ' (I guess that’s us also!) know that industries and even specific firms fall out of favor at certain times. We've met numerous clients of the years that have felt that their commercial bank has been almost looking for a reason to end the relationship. With all due fairness to there being two sides of the story who cannot commiserate with the Canadian firms who suddenly find their total future and destiny in the hands of a third party.



Probably the best advice we can give a client is to choose a banker that is relationship oriented and had internal credibility within her or his bank. Our belief - all banks are the same; all bankers are not the same.



So if that banking relationship is in fact over, what are the alternatives? The good news is ' there are a lot!) . Using our ' shopping analogy ' there's some decent choices. They include non regulated based finance']);"> asset based finance firms, equipment lessors who specialize in sale leaseback and refinancing of assets, and subsets of asset finance which include receivable financing ( factoring ) , inventory financing, and combinations there of .



More esoteric solutions such as purchase order finance and tax credit monetization are also readily available. Firms that are either on the verge of entry into a ' special loan ' category, or who find themselves there already have ample room to re-exit under the right conditions.



Speak to a trusted, credible and experienced Canadian business financing advisor who can assist you with achieve refinancing success.

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