Senior Director, Strategy and Content, Live Media
American Banker
Mary Ellen Egan is a journalist with more than 25 years of experience in business and investigative journalism. She has been a staff writer and editor at Forbes, The American Lawyer, First Amendment Watch and American Banker. She has freelanced for Bloomberg, Bloomberg Law, University of Chicago Booth School of Business, Stanford Graduate School of Business and Thomson Reuters. She is currently an adjunct professor of journalism at New York University.
Access to credit lines is critical to small businesses. With several recent changes to SBA lending standards, many businesses may be wondering what’s changed and how it impacts their financials. Our panel will discuss the breadth of the changes to SBA’s standard operating procedure, its impact on banks and the economy, how banks can respond and why SMBs may seek alternative funding options.