Small Business Administration

First State Bank Nebraska Achieves Top 5 Rankings in Six Key Categories by the Small Business Administration First State Bank Nebraska, who prides itself on being dedicated to supporting small businesses, has earned recognition from the Small Business...

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How to Fund a Small Business According to Forbes, there are about 33.2 million small businesses up and running in the U.S. right now, and they all got their start somehow. Raising enough funds is an important factor to get your small business up and...

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Financing Options For Making An Equity Purchase In A Financial Advisory Practice Financing options have improved for financial advisors over the past few years. This greater access to capital solutions allows advisors of every age and experience level...

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Advisor Loans: SBA Versus Conventional Loan Programs In years past advisors had to rely on personal assets, cash, and seller financing to buy equity or fund growth initiatives. Now financial advisors have greater access to capital through a variety...

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What We Do and How We Can Help At Salt Creek, we are dedicated to helping financial advisors and RIAs expand their firms with efficient access to capital. It’s our goal to help you grow your firm. We exclusively serve financial advisors and we...

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How Working with An SBA Preferred Lending Partner Improves the Lending Process When applying for a business loan, you want to take advantage of every opportunity to speed up and streamline the lending process so your business can get the funds it needs...

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More Skin in the Game: The SBA’s Proposal to Reinstate the Personal Liquidity Test Lending regulations are constantly changing, especially those that apply to SBA backed loan products. Earlier this year the SBA instituted a new version of their...

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SBA Franchise Directory Listing for Broker/Dealers Is your Broker/Dealer on the SBA Franchise Directory? They need to be for SBA lending. Considering an SBA loan to help grow your financial advisor practice? If you operate under any type of signed...

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Tax Time: What’s Needed For Lending We wanted to take some time to clarify what details you will need to provide a lender for financial analysis for your financial advisor loan. As is normal with tax topics, this is pretty dry material. But we...

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Business Valuation Resource Guide for Financial Advisor Lending Whether you are seeking a loan for expansion, acquisition, or a partner buyout, you will need plenty of documents, and that often includes a business valuation. At Salt Creek, we use the...

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