With almost 95 percent of world consumers outside America's borders, exporting is an important way for small business to scale up and create the jobs that America needs now. Now, more than ever before, small business owners can access these overseas markets with the click of a button thanks to globalization, Internet communications and export finance programs made more simple and easy to use by the Obama Administration.
With loan volume steadily increasing for the past six quarters, the U.S. Small Business Administration’s loan programs posted the second largest dollar volume ever in Fiscal 2012, supporting $30.25 billion in loans to small businesses, the agency informed Tuesday.
The Central-Eastern Development Bank, known as BADECO by its acronym in Spanish, became the only entity in Puerto Rico selected to participate in the Small Business Administration’s Loan Brokers Pilot Program, getting a $1 million assignment, organization Executive Director Adrián Muñiz-Mariani said Wednesday.