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New York City small business financing

The factor rate is not the cost.

A 1.4 factor rate sounds like 40%. On a nine-month advance with daily remittances, it is closer to 95% APR. Nobody in the merchant cash advance industry puts that number on the term sheet. We put it on the homepage. We cover how small businesses in New York actually get funded, who is lending honestly, and what to do if you have already signed something you regret.

Factor rate → true APR

Advance amount $50,000

Factor rate 1.40

Repayment term 9 months

True annualised cost

95.0% APR

Cost of this advance$20,000

Same sum, 12% term loan$2,533

Assumes remittance every business day across the stated term, the standard merchant cash advance structure. APR solved by internal rate of return, then annualised over 260 business days. Full methodology and worked examples

Publishing since 2015
50+ on-record founder interviews
No lender owns this site
Every commercial relationship disclosed

What we cover

Three desks.

Financing is the main beat. The interviews and the ecosystem coverage are how we know who is telling the truth.

Desk 01

Small business financing

Merchant cash advances, term loans, lines of credit, SBA and EIDL. What each one actually costs, who it suits, and where the traps are.

All financing coverage →

Desk 02

Founder interviews

Long-form conversations with founders who built something in New York and elsewhere. On the record, named, unedited questions.

Read the archive →

Desk 03

The New York ecosystem

NYC venture capital, fintech, and the state rules that shape how businesses here borrow money.

NYC coverage →

If you have an advance right now

Read these four, in this order.

Most people arrive here already in a contract. This is the sequence that gets you from "what did I sign" to "what are my options."

01

How a merchant cash advance actually works
Factor rates, holdback percentages, daily remittance, and why an advance is legally not a loan.

14 min
02

What yours is really costing you
Put your own numbers in. Compare the advance against a term loan and a line of credit at the same amount.

Tool
03

Confessions of judgment in New York
What the 2019 reform changed, what it did not, and how to check whether one is buried in your agreement.

11 min
04

Getting out of an advance
Reconciliation rights, renegotiation, consolidation, and the options that usually make things worse.

16 min

Latest from the financing desk

Recent reporting.

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On the record

Ten years of founder interviews.

Named founders, real companies, questions they were not expecting. The archive is the reason we can tell a good lender from a bad one.

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Who writes this

One editor, named, reachable.

Shlomo Wiesen, editor

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How we work

Editorial standards.

We show the arithmetic

Every cost claim is reproducible. Where we quote a rate, we say when we checked it and how we calculated it.

We disclose every relationship

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We do not promise approvals

No lender can guarantee approval, and any site that says otherwise is selling your details. We do not run those offers.

We correct in public

Corrections are noted at the foot of the article with the date. Nothing is quietly edited away.

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