At the recent Small Business Lending Summit, franchising was cited as a popular path to entrepreneurship. But the difficulty that small-business owners face for financing is a challenge.

Small business made this country great and we can do it again. We can, better than anyone, insure people will stay in their homes by hiring back our talented workforce that has and will continue to be our nation's greatest asset.

Most small-business owners dream of seeing orders quintuple overnight. But when Fern Phillips had a purchase order suddenly jump from 4,000 units to 2...

(By Ann Saphir - Reuters) - Borrowing by U.S. small businesses rose in January, another sign that recent stronger economic data may be more durable th...

There are times when it is good to borrow money, but those times are limited. So how do you know when you truly need to borrow for your business? The answer is not always obvious.

It's not really fair to blame actuaries for creating the biggest financial crisis in living American memory. I am, of course, talking about how tens of thousands of small business owners with long and successful track records are going out of business because they cannot get a simple business loan from their neighborhood banker.

Small-business owners are holding their collective breaths as the Obama Administration's proposed budget wends its way through the politically-charged Congress.

(Reuters - By Ann Saphir) Borrowing by U.S. small businesses rose in December to the highest level in more than four years, pointing to continued stre...

Big banks' reputations have taken a hit over the last few years, starting with the financial crisis and culminating with the Occupy Wall Street protes...

For too long, small businesses have been struggling to bear the brunt of the recession. Lending has all but dried up, and too many lawmakers are spending more time playing politics than working to pass smart legislation to help them. How do we know small business owners feel this way? We asked them.

(Reuters) - Global lending giants Chase (JPM.N) and Citi (C.N) said they substantially increased loans to U.S. small businesses last year, both exceed...

In an economy where every bit of capital can help or hurt a small business, is Bank of America cutting credit lines to some small businesses? That ...

* Rising borrowing points to underlying economic strength * Loan delinquencies ebbing By Lucia Mutikani WASH...

(By Lynn Adler - Reuters) - Small businesses re-engineered themselves during the recession and are now more confident and profitable, with lower-risk ...

Politicians and banking executives are quick to hail small businesses as key to economic expansion and job creation. That message was front and center...

To provide the much-needed liquidity, the U. S. Small Business Administration is revising its CAPLine program to make lines of credit more acceptable to lenders and more available to small-business owners. However, banks would rather make conventional LOCs rather than hassle with some of the SBA's requirements.

The Small Business Administration's loan incentive program worked brilliantly, and it will work again. Washington should act -- and act now -- to provide another $2 billion to help small businesses, their workers and the taxpayers.

(By Ann Saphir) - The growth of borrowing among small U.S. businesses moderated in September but the overall level still registered a 14th monthly dou...