Next Street Financial LLC is a merchant bank founded to serve high-performing, high-potential inner city small businesses and entrepreneurs across the U.S. Next Street selects businesses that are poised for growth and, in the context of a long-term trusted advisor relationship, provides them with flexible financing and Wall Street-quality advice to ensure they achieve their full potential. MORE >

In the current, PERSPECTIVES posting, founder Tim Ferguson discusses the global microfinance movement and the need to support small-to-medium-sized businesses here at home. Click here to read Microfinance and the Domestic "Missing Middle."

On Wednesday, May 14, Next Street Founding Partner, Ronald L. Walker, II will present Beyond Financing: The Merchant Bank and Urban Small Business as part of the New England Minority Supplier Development Council’s Small Business Opportunity Fair at the Hynes Convention Center. His talk will focus on how the classic merchant bank model is inherently designed to serve small and mid-size businesses. For more information about this event, visit nemsdc.org.

Next Street welcomes Tim Greenfield as partner to head our strategic advisory practice in New York. Tim comes to Next Street by way of General Electric and McKinsey & Company. As a business owner himself, Tim brings an entrepreneurial spirit that will serve Next Street – and our small business clients – extremely well. MORE >