The Federal Reserve’s 2026 Small Business Credit Survey describes a cost squeeze: input and wage costs are the top financial challenge, while revenue and hiring expectations have slipped to their lowest levels since 2020. For owners across construction, transportation, manufacturing, retail, wholesale, and services, that gap is fundamentally a working-capital problem — and there are...
Why Equipment Lenders Fund on Useful Life, Not Enterprise Health The Useful Life Coverage Criterion reads the asset’s value, remaining life, resale market, and financing term—not the borrower’s earnings. A weak enterprise is funded on a strong, long-lived, widely resalable machine. A healthier enterprise is declined on a specialized asset with a short remaining life...
The NWC Floor Stack Test: Working Capital Stress Testing for Multi-Instrument Capital Stacks How the NWC Floor Stress Test Extends to the Combined Stack Level — and Why Single-Facility Working Capital Analysis Understates Compression Risk A working capital floor can look safe when each financing instrument is tested alone and still fail when the full...
Capital Structure and the ABL Void: Why Regional Banks Are Exiting Complex SMB Borrowers How the ABL Void, the NWC-CCC-WCC Governance Trinity, and the Forensic ABL Framework Form a Unified Capital Governance Architecture SERIES CONTEXT This article serves as the capstone of Book Three of the Capital Governance Stack series — the structural prescription volume...
Capital Source®, through its Private Credit Division, is pleased to share its Industries Served List for April 2026. Chicago (May 8, 2026) Key Points: 23 transactions funded in April 2026 $4.36 million deployed across multiple industries 14 states and provinces represented Strong activity across manufacturing, transportation, construction, retail, and food service sectors In April, we...
