Press Releases
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Kansas City Fed President Addresses Secured Finance Network Amid Market Turmoil; Vows to Fight Inflation
Apr 11, 2025
Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City President Jeffrey Schmid spoke at Secured Finance Network’s Independent Finance Roundtable in Missouri earlier this week.
“Our understanding of current and developing economic conditions is informed by direct, local engagement with the industries and geographies that make up the American economy,” Schmid said. “Events like this one today play an important role in the process.”
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Overall Lender Confidence Still Positive in First Quarter, But Down from the End of 2022
Jun 27, 2023
Non-banks more bullish, banks more bearish about new business demand, hiring and client utilization for asset-based lending
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SFNet 2023 Market Sizing Study Documents a Mammoth-Sized $4.866-Trillion U.S. Secured Finance Market
Jun 6, 2023The Secured Finance Network’s (SFNet) new Secured Finance Market Sizing and Impact Study reports that the total secured financing volume of transaction flows to U.S. commercial businesses in 2022 was nearly $4.9 trillion. In other words, the scope of this market, which comprises seven major financing categories, “underpins, either directly or indirectly, over one-fifth of…the transaction volumes that make up the $23 trillion in U.S. Gross Domestic Product (GDP),” according to the study.
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Secured Finance Network Releases Factoring Survey
April 21, 2025The Secured Finance Network (SFNet) has released results of its year-end factoring survey, which found a decline in factoring volume during the second half of 2024, but an overall positive sentiment moving forward in the face of economic uncertainty.
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SFNet Releases Q4 2024 Asset-Based Lending and Confidence Indexes
April 16, 2025The Secured Finance Network (SFNet) recently released its Q4 2024 Asset-Based Lending Index and Lender Confidence Index, offering a snapshot of a resilient ABL market.