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Selling Your Business to Your Employees: What the New SBA Worker Cooperative Lending Pilot Means for Retiring Owners

Six million U.S. businesses are expected to change hands by 2035, yet over 58% of owners have no succession plan. The National Worker Cooperative Development and Support Act, reintroduced in December 2025, would create an SBA pilot guaranteeing $60 million in loans over ten years for worker cooperative conversions — solving the 20%-owner personal guarantee problem that blocks most co-op financing. Here's how the pilot, Section 1042 capital gains deferral, and clean bookkeeping fit into an employee-ownership exit.

mike

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Dynamic Discounting for Small Suppliers: How C2FO and Taulia Early Payments Work — and When the Math Favors You

Dynamic discounting lets a small supplier trade a sliding, per-invoice discount for immediate payment from the buyer's own cash — no loan, no bank middleman — on platforms like C2FO and SAP Taulia. This guide explains how it differs from supply chain finance, why a 2/10 net 30 discount annualizes to roughly 36%, and how to record the discount as its own expense account in a plain-text ledger.

mike

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The $875 Billion Maturity Wall: A Small Business Guide to Refinancing Commercial Real Estate in 2026

Roughly $875 billion in commercial real estate loans mature in 2026 — about 17% of all outstanding commercial mortgage debt — with rates 150-250 basis points above origination. A practical guide for owner-occupiers and tenants, covering the financing gap, DSCR targets of 1.20x-1.35x, SBA 504/7(a) options, and a nine-month refinancing timeline.

mike

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Panacea Financial and the Rise of Physician Banking: What Doctor-Focused Lending Teaches Anyone With Unusual Income

84% of medical student borrowers owe $100,000+ and residents earn $60,000–$70,000 while their debt suggests far more — a gap Panacea Financial, a physician-founded division of Primis Bank, underwrites around with no-cosigner PRN loans, refinancing, and practice financing. What niche banking gains, what it gives up, and why the 2026 Grad PLUS elimination changes the math.

mike

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