December 22nd, 2009 by Alex Coté
Of all the ‘Great Recession’ stories in 2009, perhaps none painted a bigger picture of the Main Street vs. Wall Street divide than the small business credit crunch. You know the storyline well. Battered with high risk debt, banks and other lenders became increasingly reluctant to provide the vital credit lines to the nation’s primary [...]
December 14th, 2009 by Alex Coté
Today, we published our latest report of small business payment activities (see chart below). After witnessing a growing gap between the payment habits of large and small businesses – as recently as a month ago small businesses payments languished at a 38 percent higher days beyond terms (DBT) than big businesses, who had since returned [...]
December 2nd, 2009 by Alex Coté
Last month we reported a break from a normal, historical seasonal cycle in the Cortera Supply Chain Index – payments between stakeholders had slowed after 4 months of improving conditions — and posed the question: Why the early jump in the SCI? Normally we see this kind of jump in the November and December months [...]
