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An Inside Look at the Biz2Credit Small Business Lending March Report (Podcast)

Biz2Credit’s Small Business Lending Index has provided analysis that proves that bigger banks are giving fewer small business loans, which opens an opportunity for credit unions in the small business lending arena. In this podcast, Rohit Arora, CEO and President of Biz2Credit, explains how credit unions can take advantage of this opportunity and how their online platform can help match credit union solutions to the financial needs of small businesses.

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Overview

Founded in 2007, Biz2Credit is an online small business platform that allows business owners to access lenders. The online platform matches small businesses with lenders based on the quality of the business’ profile and the lender’s preferences—all in a simple and secure environment. Credit unions save time, money, and boost revenue with the innovative solution for small business lending deal sourcing from Biz2Credit.

Solutions & Benefits 

  • Biz2Credit has access to over 8 million small business customers. Credit unions need a robust pipeline of qualified prospects that meet their unique lending criteria. Biz2Credit has partnered with large companies in the small business space—including Intuit, Paychex, Equifax, Dun & Bradstreet, and BizBuySell—to exclusively provide small business loan services. Biz2Credit can provide screening technology that will allow each credit union to set up filters that specify the loan applications they would like to ideally service (e.g. location of the small business, size of the loan, credit score ranges, and hundreds of other variables that can be easily preset by a loan officer at a credit union).
  • Biz2Credit’s DocVault solution is a simple & secure document management system designed specifically for the small business loan space. Biz2Credit has made it easy for loan officers at credit unions to collate documents and data within one single repository with document tagging and sharing functionality to efficiently store, collect, and share documents.
  • Biz2Credit’s BizAnalyzer product analyzes a businesses’ financial health. Small business owners need a quick way to assess their financial health and ability to raise financing. BizAnalyzer allows small businesses to do that with a simple to read score and recommendation system. It also enables credit unions to access key analytical information in assessing the credit worthiness of the business---and even gives the ability to credit unions to recommend other financial products to small business owners to improve their business’ financial health.
  • Biz2Credit validates the financial data of a business in the loan application. Because Biz2Credit is integrated into a suite of software tools used by small business owners to manage their business’ finances—including products like Quickbooks and PayChex—our data validation of the inputs in a loan application are unmatched. Biz2Credit can pull information from software providers and input it directly into a loan application. With our integration into the IRS, Biz2Credit can now provide digital 4506T verification—making it even faster for loan officers to validate a business’ financial health.
  • Biz2Credit’s BizSecure solutions help credit unions set up a credit monitoring facility of their loan portfolio. Biz2Credit can pull the UCC lien and other state data on the small business portfolio in real time, as well as sync up with IRS for ongoing tax transcript verification.
  • Other Biz2Credit products that can help improve the profitability of credit unions. Biz2Credit also can help improve the profitability of the loan portfolio of credit unions by providing risk management solutions. Credit unions can integrate their rejected loan applications directly into Biz2Credit—allowing the lender market exchange on Biz2Credit to bid and service members that might not fit the credit unions lending criteria but still allows the credit union to provide great service to their members and hold on to the small businesses’ deposits. 

NAFCU Member-only Benefits

NAFCU member credit unions receive a free consultation and discounted pilot program to quickly assess compatibility and success of Biz2Credit for your credit union. In addition, NAFCU member credit unions receive free training on all Biz2Credit solutions and receive the BizAnalyzer tool free for all of your credit union’s SMB members to help them determine their business’s financial health.

Educational Resources

  • Resource TypeSmall Business Lending Index Report April 2012 (Article)

    The Biz2Credit Small Business Lending Index, an analysis of 1,000 loan applications on Biz2Credit.com, found that loan approvals by big banks dropped from 10.9% in March to 10.6% in April and from the 11.6% approval rate last March. Additionally, small bank lending fell from 47.6% in March to 45.9% in April 2012.

  • Resource TypeAn Inside Look at the Biz2Credit Small Business Lending March Report (Podcast)
    Biz2Credit’s Small Business Lending Index has provided analysis that proves that bigger banks are giving fewer small business loans, which opens an opportunity for credit unions in the small business lending arena. In this podcast, Rohit Arora, CEO and President of Biz2Credit, explains how credit unions can take advantage of this opportunity and how their online platform can help match credit union solutions to the financial needs of small businesses.
  • Resource TypeSmall Business Lending Index Report March 2012 (Article)
    The Biz2Credit Small Business Lending Index, an analysis of 1,000 loan applications on Biz2credit.com, found that loan approvals by big banks dropped to 10.9% from the 11.7% figure reported in February (a 6.8% decline over a one-month period) and from the 11.6% approval rate last March. Meanwhile, small bank lending remained flat in March 2012.
  • Resource TypeBoost Revenue From Small Business Member Lending With Biz2Credit (Webinar)

    Are you are looking for an opportunity to boost revenue from small business member lending? Check out this recorded webinar with Biz2Credit to learn how to grow your small business lending portfolio now! 

  • Resource TypeSmall Business Lending Index Report February 2012 (Article)

    Monthly Analysis of 1,000 Funding Requests Finds Small Banks, Credit Unions, and Other Alternative Lenders Approved Loans at Highest Levels of the Past 12 Months in February 


  • Resource TypeSmall Business Lending Index Report January 2011 (Article)
    The Biz2Credit Small Business Lending Index, an analysis of 1,000 loan applications on Biz2credit.com, found that approval rates of small business financing requests in January by small banks and non-bank lenders increased to their highest levels in the past 12 months. Meanwhile, lending at big banks jumped two percentage points over December's rate to 11.7%, the highest rate since February 2011.
  • Resource TypeMember Business Lending as a Source of Growth (Podcast and Presentation)

     In this 2012 Strategic Growth Conference session, investigate ways that credit unions can take advantage of the current business environment and look to member business lending as a source of robust and ongoing growth. We’ll talk about filling the void in small business lending, advantages credit unions offer small business borrowers searching for capital, leveraging technology in the lending process to minimize costs and maximize productivity, ways technology can enable credit unions that have never done small business lending to quickly build a program and strategies and tactics for deal sourcing. We will also look at the need for tracking analytics and ratios for both underwriting and monitoring.

  • Resource TypeSmall Business Loans: Baskin Robbins (Case Study and Video)
    Biz2Credit facilitated the financing of four Baskin Robbins franchises in Scottsdale, AZ for a small business owner. The founder was denied a loan from other lending sources for six months. Biz2Credit, with its wide network of small business lenders, was able to provide a solution to the challenge of finding outside capital for the prospective small business borrower. With the help of Biz2Credit, the loan was financed without real estate collateral.
  • Resource TypeSmall Business Loans: Future Green Studio (Case Study)

    Future Green Studio is a design-build firm in Brooklyn, New York specializing in landscape urbanism and green roof design. The founder was denied a commercial loan from TD Bank in both 2009 and 2010. He also found that information on other small business loan options and on local vendors was limited. Biz2Credit, with its wide network of small business lenders, was able to provide that information, and a solution, to the challenge of finding outside capital for Future Green Stud

  • Resource TypeSmall Business Lending Index Report December 2011 (Article)
    Monthly analysis of 1,000 funding requests finds small banks, credit unions and others continue to increase lending to entrepreneurs while big banks remain cautious.

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Ramit Arora | 212-644-4555 x 104
http://www.biz2credit.com
ramit@biz2credit.com