🎉Exciting News! Earlier this week, Governor Gavin Newsom Gavin Newsom signed SB 33: Commercial Financing Disclosure into law! This legislation enshrines the state’s small business truth in lending framework into permanent law, including disclosure of the annual percentage rate (APR)📊📈

Maryland #entrepreneurs like Karida Collins need regulatory protection from predatory lending. #HB574 would establish basic price transparency standards for #smallbiz lending. Read more: tinyurl.com/b48m4trh

NEWS: Responsible Business Lending Coalition (RBLC) is pleased to announce the hiring of its first Executive Director, Louis Caditz-Peck. Louis is not only a practitioner and advocate in #smallbiz financing, but he has long been a leader in the coalition since its founding. borrowersbillofrights.org/rblcannouncese…

With the Governor’s signature, running a small business just got a little bit easier in California. For too long, small business owners have been unfairly targeted for taking personal loans to invest in their business. That ends today under #SB1286. sd37.senate.ca.gov/news/governor-…

After years working in the banking industry, Mark felt called to do more for North Carolina #smallbiz owners. “There were more businesses that I wanted to help, but I could not help them," he recalled. Read our latest profile on Mark & Carolina Small Business Development Fund: borrowersbillofrights.org/signatory-and-…

.Sorenson Impact and Blue Haven Initiative are hosting a virtual panel about policy-enhanced #impinv with Liesel Pritzker Simmons, Community Investment Management’s Jacob Haar, Responsible Business Lending Coalition (RBLC)'s Louis Caditz-Peck, Energy Action Fund's Ryan & Sorenson’s Lindsay Zizumbo on Wed., Oct. 9. hubs.ly/Q02ShBVH0