As ABL Advisor enters its third year of publication, we are pleased to present our annual industry leaders market segment overview. In the following four-part article, we catch up with five industry professionals from four leading asset-based lending and factoring institutions. As has been our custom, we approach the industry from varying market perspectives ranging from the large corporate marketplace to small business lending. This year we hear that there are detectable trends evolving across the entire spectrum of commercial finance. We invite you to explore the perspectives offered in the interviews that follow.

Speaking of this year’s participants, we extend a hearty thanks to Michael Murphy of Union Bank’s Asset Based Lending Group, Michael Scolaro and Jay Schweiger at BMO Harris Bank’s Asset Based Lending Group, Darren Latimer at Gibraltar Business Capital and Jeffrey Goldrich at North Mill Capital for their valuable time and invaluable contribution to this overview.

As always, the questions are tuned to best fit the different market sectors, yet our five executives agree that both ABL and factoring continue to play a prominent role in financing today’s economy.

Feel free to read these four perspectives in any order you prefer.