Gerri Detweiler

Gerri Detweiler

Known as a financing and credit expert, Gerri Detweiler has been interviewed in more than 4000 news stories, and answered over 10,000 credit and lending questions online. Her articles have been widely syndicated on sites such as MSN, Forbes, and MarketWatch. She is the author or coauthor of five books, including Finance Your Own Business: Get on the Financing Fast Track. She has testified before Congress on consumer credit legislation.

Articles by Gerri Detweiler

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The Huge Credit Mistake This Expert Says You Must Avoid

Jeanne Kelly is the author of The 90 Day Credit Challenge. A credit coach and speaker, she became interested in …
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Banks vs. Alternative Lenders: Who Is Winning the Battle?

The Brave 100: The Battle for Supremacy in Small Business Lending, a recent report by Frank Rotman at QED Investors, and Peter Carroll and Jonathan Liu at Oliver Wyman, pits fintech start-up and alternative lenders like OnDeck, Lending Club and Fundera (the Brave 100) as David’s battling the Goliaths of the SMB lending world: the large banks.
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What Happens When You Default on a Loan?

For most small business owners, when they take out a business loan, they think about how the loan is going …
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Your Business Credit Report Probably Has Errors: Why and What You Can Do About It

In 2005, Levi King received a generic rejection letter that floored him. It said his application for business financing for …