This 1 hour seminar examines and explains how best to approach the challenge of getting loan funding for your business with the insights gained by an organization which deals with the most commercially unattractive funding prospects, the Ottawa Community Loan Fund (OCLF).

Lenders are businesses like any other, providing funds to customers in return for interest charges. As with all businesses some customers are more attractive than others and some are simply undesirable. 

The Ottawa Community Loan Fund is a non profit organization which arranges business loans for people with whom commercial lenders are not prepared to deal but the OCLF still has its own minimum standards.
 

Whatever your status, therefore, it is important to understand clearly the key factors which any lender will take into account before deciding to offer a loan and the reasons behind them. Most of them also can also be directly linked to your potential to make a success of your business.

Speaker Biography

The seminar will be led by Mark Cawley, the OCLF’s Director of Lending Operations.

Mark Cawley has over thirty years of international business experience including working for himself as well as for leading business consultancies.  He has an MBA from the European Institute of Business Administration (INSEAD) and is a Certified Management Consultant.