Accord Financial Corp., one of the U.S. and Canada’s leading independent commercial finance companies ("Accord") (TSX: ACD) announced a realignment plan to better support the organization’s continued growth among middle market businesses, uniting all U.S. commercial financing programs under one umbrella. “Middle market companies are and have been a major growth engine for the U.S. economy,” stated Simon Hitzig, President, Accord Financial. “This reorganization will allow us to better support our clients as they face both challenges and opportunities when growing and sustaining their businesses.”

When the world turned upside-down a year ago, many predicted that the severity of the damage to the U.S. economy would usher in a period of borrower defaults, business failures and bank foreclosures. Rapid government intervention, including bank regulatory easing, has prevented that series of events, for now. Those policy measures will surely come to an end before long, at which point lender enforcement activity will likely increase.