For the launch of ABL Advisor, we thought it only fitting to provide our readers insight from industry executives at leading asset-based lending and factoring institutions. Given the wealth of industry expertise and talent, we knew one of our challenges would be to present a clear view of the ABL landscape from varying market perspectives.

At the same time we thought that while striving for uniformity is a valid course of action in most endeavors, including the coordination of industry overviews of this nature, we decided to shake things up a bit and part ways with the traditional homogeneous approach. Instead we offer these four perspectives by ABL and factoring industry leaders who speak not only to the way their institutions work with borrowers in their respective markets, but more generally in terms of the state of asset-based lending in those markets. As such, our thanks go out to our four willing participants: Jeff McLane of Bank of America Business Capital; Michael Sharkey of Cole Taylor Business Capital, Andrew McGhee of AloStar Business Credit and John Fox of Forest Capital. Each provided unique and valuable insight.

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