Business Borrowing news and trends

China Corporate Bond Defaults Balloon, Complicating Debt Picture
B2B Payments // August 10, 2018

As China continues to weigh how to approach rising corporate debt, new data reveals rising corporate bond defaults this year, according to Reuters on Thursday (Aug. 9). Sixteen Chinese corporations, most of them private, have defaulted on 34 corporate bonds, reports said. The defaults are...

Fed: Banks Reverse Corporate Lending Slump
B2B Payments // July 09, 2018

In a sign of strength for the U.S. economy, banks are reporting that business loans are on the rise. According to The Wall Street Journal, preliminary second-quarter data from the Federal Reserve indicates that the year-over-year growth rate of business loans rose to 5.5 percent...