ABL Sector Must Stay Vigilant Amid ‘Growth of Shrink’ By: Bill Mayer In what might be thought of as “the growth of shrink,” American retailers are pointing to shoplifting, organized retail crime and employee theft as significant drags on their profitability. The big-box discounter Target, for one, said its profits could take a $500 million ...

What Asset-Based Lending Can Learn from AI in the Grocery Sector By: Bradley W. Snyder OpenAI’s bombshell release of ChatGPT underscores two realities that ought to be top-of-mind for asset-based lenders everywhere. The first is that artificial intelligence—essentially, machines that sift through vast quantities of data to identify patterns and tell themselves what to do—will ...