EQUIPMENT OR PROJECTS THE BANKS DON’T UNDERSTAND

  A CFO meets with the executive committee to discuss a product line expansion. The expansion represents a huge opportunity to take share in a weak market and their manufacturing discipline should allow them to achieve accretive returns quickly. But secretly, the CFO is freaking out because he knows the bank group is going to […]

WITH GE CAPITAL’S MONEY GONE, YOU JUST MIGHT NEED A COWBOY.

“Where have all the cowboys gone?”   In addition to being a heavily mediocre ‘90s pop song, it’s a phrase that might be ringing in the head of middle market CFOs. For years there was a clear delineation when accessing capital: the banks and the industrial finance companies. And while it was occasionally fun to […]