What is going on in the debt markets right now?
March 25, 2023
by a searcher from Harvard University - Harvard Business School in New York, NY, USA
With everything happening with small and regional banks currently, are people having trouble raising capital? How has this affected the SBA loan or non-SBA loan market, if at all?
Is anyone currently having conversations with banks that could shed some light on these conditions? Thanks!
from California State University, Sacramento in Seattle, WA, USA
From a lender's perspective: Live Oak Bank has not changed our policy. We are looking for adequate historic DSC and it's been the same policy for many years now. The issue is that enterprise value expectations of sellers haven't changed to reflect the increase in capital costs. If the buyer is getting an SBA loan, they'll be able to afford less price all things being equal due to rising interest rates compared to same time last year. This makes it 'feel' like banks are tightening their policies when in fact most probably haven't. ^Heather Endresen and ^Lisa Forrest do a weekly office hours where we walk you through a sample deal and talk about all things currently SBA.
DM and I'll send you links.
from Stanford University in Los Angeles, CA, USA