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    MCC has 24 month options?

    Is this statement correct?

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    Captap! 24 months! I wrote about this before!

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    fixed or % deals?

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    Can you repost the stips/stats on this?

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    I am Pretty Sure 15 months is as long as they go out

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    24 months = a bad idea. Ask Jeremy Brown what he thinks about this.

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    I agree with Jeremy! 24 months = funding company out of business soon!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Scott Griest View Post
    I agree with Jeremy! 24 months = funding company out of business soon!
    Almost as ridiculous as rapid's new program of having merchant's net only 40%. Contrary to popular opinion on this board-smart PE is avoiding this sector. Customer acquisition costs are far too prohibitive (case in point is rapid's willingness to take on this crazy risk in order to acquire customers-did they not learn anything from the last time they almost went under?). Race to bottom-mca underwriting teams have no business and/or brain power to underwrite deals >$200k and longer than 6 months. Great time to be a broker and a fully secured lender to MCA -but the equity will blow up.

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    The only funder I have seen go out to 24 months on occasion for premium or select business is new logic business loans. The next term closest to that is 18 months by a few funders like on deck and arf. Than you have some 15 mo terms at BFS. Most other companies are all under 12 mo terms or turns depend on product-

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    Daily repayment for 2 years.... let's think about that for a minute. You should prepare yourself for ACH rejects if it's on ACH. Will the average daily ending balance for the last 6 months help you predict how much money will be in a merchant's bank account in August of 2015?! NOPE!

    And be prepared for the request for additional funds in 4-6 months on these deals, which will either lead to a further extension of the deal or a stack when the original funder says no.

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    Quote Originally Posted by staten View Post
    Almost as ridiculous as rapid's new program of having merchant's net only 40%. Contrary to popular opinion on this board-smart PE is avoiding this sector. Customer acquisition costs are far too prohibitive (case in point is rapid's willingness to take on this crazy risk in order to acquire customers-did they not learn anything from the last time they almost went under?). Race to bottom-mca underwriting teams have no business and/or brain power to underwrite deals >$200k and longer than 6 months. Great time to be a broker and a fully secured lender to MCA -but the equity will blow up.
    Accel Partners, Google Ventures, Peter Thiel and the like are certainly "smart-PE." Not sure I understand your point Noob. What side of the business are you on, funder or ISO? What exactly are you advocating for?

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    Quote Originally Posted by MCAVeteran View Post
    The only funder I have seen go out to 24 months on occasion for premium or select business is new logic business loans. The next term closest to that is 18 months by a few funders like on deck and arf. Than you have some 15 mo terms at BFS. Most other companies are all under 12 mo terms or turns depend on product-
    We received a 48 month option from ARF last month

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    And ARF will refinance an existing MCA even if the merchant is only 20% paid down. Yikes!

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    48 months and they are paying you an upfront commission? cmon now....Les isnt that crazy..is he?.....

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    Quote Originally Posted by jbrown View Post
    Accel Partners, Google Ventures, Peter Thiel and the like are certainly "smart-PE." Not sure I understand your point Noob. What side of the business are you on, funder or ISO? What exactly are you advocating for?
    Peter Thiel lost 80% of his fortune shorting the market-so i will beg to differ. Regardless-I'm not advocating anything-just stating the obvious that the economics of the business model simply do not work with the cost of acquisition. I am very interested in why you think it is prudent from a risk perspective for a merchant to net only 40% from a new financing.

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    SeanBash- We would have to have Nigel Morris address your concern for 24 months. They are going to more traditional financing so these 6 month turns are not going to be the norm for certain businesses needing financing..

    http://www.capitalaccessnetwork.com/...of-capital-acc

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    If you're going to do 2 year deals, do monthly payments and there must absolutely be a PG. If the business fails, the owner needs to be fully liable. The loan should be reported to the credit bureaus every month. Even still, I wouldn't do a 2 year deal. A friend of mine works for a large bank and it's their internal policy to decline 100% of all retail and restaurant loan applications they get, no exceptions. It's not because the loans are too small, but because the default rate for brick and mortar businesses is so high. I asked if they would do a 50 location restaurant chain with each location having been in business for 10 years, the owner having a million in the bank, no debt, and 800 credit. He said ABSOLUTELY NOT.

    Lending Club does personal loans for 3-5 years. What do you think about that?

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    I should also mention that another friend of mine underwrites credit card applications (I thought computers do the approving but apparently this bank does them all manually). They won't approve credit cards for small business owners and I don't mean credit cards in the business's name, but in the owner's name. I asked how that could be and he said because people that own a business are far more likely to default on debt than a typical consumer. These wasn't his opinion, but rather the banks position. I can't finger the name of the bank here but they are big.

    The consensus I hear in the banking world is that small business owners default much too often for anyone to get comfortable with.

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    its the daily remittance platform, and, risk models, along with the banks not needing to build an infrastructure to support lending to SMBs that works in our favor as an industry. On Deck states on their website, they have supported numerous banks with their risk scoring model to lend to SMB's. Big Banks are not setup to lend to mom/pops, however, they are providing credit facilities like Wells Fargo, for funders to lend to SMB's in our space. And yes, the loans do carry a PG. Have you read the language on the business loan agreements?

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    Quote Originally Posted by staten View Post
    Peter Thiel lost 80% of his fortune shorting the market-so i will beg to differ. Regardless-I'm not advocating anything-just stating the obvious that the economics of the business model simply do not work with the cost of acquisition. I am very interested in why you think it is prudent from a risk perspective for a merchant to net only 40% from a new financing.
    I wasn't aware of that about Thiel, but he clearly is brilliant and is a co-founder of PayPal and the first outside investor in Facebook, so he can spot a trend. Not to debate the point however.

    Your point is fair about the risk perspective of a merchant netting only 40% on a new financing. It is a 3 month test and we are calculating that the previous payment history shows good character and will offset the risk of potential desperation and the willingness to pay "fee on fee." It is also better for the merchant in our opinion than the merchant who stacks and impacts their cash flow severely with multiple daily ACH's. Ask me at the end of the year if we are still doing it

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    Quote Originally Posted by sean bash View Post
    If you're going to do 2 year deals, do monthly payments and there must absolutely be a PG. If the business fails, the owner needs to be fully liable. The loan should be reported to the credit bureaus every month. Even still, I wouldn't do a 2 year deal. A friend of mine works for a large bank and it's their internal policy to decline 100% of all retail and restaurant loan applications they get, no exceptions. It's not because the loans are too small, but because the default rate for brick and mortar businesses is so high. I asked if they would do a 50 location restaurant chain with each location having been in business for 10 years, the owner having a million in the bank, no debt, and 800 credit. He said ABSOLUTELY NOT.

    Lending Club does personal loans for 3-5 years. What do you think about that?
    I like this thread. Some very good thoughts here. The problem with a PG is that without collateral, it doesn't mean a lot. We all know what it means to chase a PG on a small business owner who has closed their business. I can sell anyone lots of that paper at pennies on the dollar if anyone is interested.

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    this is a great discussion.

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    I think the longer turns are simply part of a natural progression in the industry. And a really good one at that. I got in to this business 3.5 years ago. I've been in the origination and underwriting of mortgage and commercial loans field since 1999. Risk based pricing is deep rooted in both of the fields I've worked in. Why wouldn't it be in this space?

    When I first came into this business I was really surprised that no premium price stuff existed. "750 score and $10k average dailies? That's awesome! Here's a 1.38/6. Have a nice day!" Before we started funding we worked the iso angle for a while. We generated plenty of high credit/high quality statement apps but there was no products to present. OnDeck had their big toe in it but they too only liked to go 1.20/6. They said they did 12 months but lets be honest, how many 1.30/12s actually got funded in 2010? heh.

    There was simply too big of a gap between traditional and alternative lending with nothing in between. It was either bank financing or 1.20 - 1.38/6 deals. That's a massive spread and there was plenty of demand from quality business owners but no product to present. ARF probably had the closest thing but they we're pretty picky back then. Not sure how they are now.

    18-24 months deals can be properly underwritten and funded with enough margin to make the machine run smoothly. Banged up businesses aren't getting those terms nor should they. However, the product is a nice fit and there is a big pool of quality businesses who are underserved. Banks are never going back to "the way it was" and even when they were pretty loose there was STILL plenty of demand for MCAs.

    In the last 2 months we've brokered a handful of $100-200k deals in the 12-18 month range with terms that a good credit business owner could swallow. These folks are not stackers or desperate renewers. They had specific needs for the money. To them, it was viewed as a one off transaction and I doubt there will be performance problems unless something goes very wrong down the road. Unforeseen time bombs can't be underwritten anyways. It's just part of the game.

    IMO- 12-24 month deals for the right applicants can be a very successful and well performing product and capture a market share that didn't exist a few years ago. That middle ground between bankable and 6 month deals in the 1.30's is a big slice of the pie but it's not something that should be done carelessly for obvious reasons.
    Last edited by Finance1; 08-20-2013 at 06:06 PM.

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    The industry has changed/evolved and the only thing constant is change- none of this is bad. Everyone is funding more business. If your models were 6 months 1.38 and cherry picking, that train has gone bye bye. If you dictate to merchants to switch processors to fund, you will be out of bz as every processor has a funding outlet today. Ach repayment and loans are a bulk of the bz now. The longer terms were inevitable to shake up the market along with loan products. The lower credit deals will always find their way to the shorter term high rate doorsteps but the other segment who wasn't taking advances due to short terms high rates are seeking better deals daily and will find them. ARF did have something unique awhile back even before new logic or on deck arrived to the scene, but they were not looking to be the 800 lb funder- they have a nationwide footprint of w2 sales reps that produce for them as a core model and ISos were/are supplement bz only- they also can charge back defaults to their employees unlike broker bz-

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    Quote Originally Posted by jbrown View Post
    I wasn't aware of that about Thiel, but he clearly is brilliant and is a co-founder of PayPal and the first outside investor in Facebook, so he can spot a trend. Not to debate the point however.

    Your point is fair about the risk perspective of a merchant netting only 40% on a new financing. It is a 3 month test and we are calculating that the previous payment history shows good character and will offset the risk of potential desperation and the willingness to pay "fee on fee." It is also better for the merchant in our opinion than the merchant who stacks and impacts their cash flow severely with multiple daily ACH's. Ask me at the end of the year if we are still doing it

    Well-I do wish you the best of luck. But take a step back and realize that you are actually now reduced to comparing merchants you would like in your portfolio to merchants who stack with ach's. This is what the high acquisition costs have done to the standards of funders. Hopefully I am wrong and merchants who net 40% after a refi (probably closer to 30-35% with fees) will have a default rate less than 10%. But I am not a fan of those odds.

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