Specialty finance provider Mitsubishi HC Capital America announced today that it has entered into a $20 million facility to provide supply chain financing for an IT value-added reseller (VAR) serving the life sciences sector. With the VAR’s end customer requiring a sales cycle that could extend as long as two years, the VAR needed a stable source of working capital to ensure that the highly specialized technology can be identified, purchased and delivered via a customer roll out schedule.

The thing I love most about stoicism is the ability to combine its philosophy at work and home.  Most people, myself included, do not truly look at themselves dispassionately in either setting.  We are great, we are smart, we are everything someone should be and capable of everything; until we are not.  I experience this recently when I had to look deep inside myself and acknowledge that like all people, I am flawed and have weaknesses.  Most people overestimate their skills while failing to give themselves credit for what they are really great at.  When you truly understand who you are, you will be better at every aspect of your job.  What does this have to do with lending, you might ask; patience is another stoic virtue.