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One of the most misunderstood concepts about business finance options is what role banks play in working capital management and commercial loans for small businesses. Despite the fact that commercial mortgage financing and business financing from banks in general have been unavailable to most small business owners during the past two years, one of the bright spots is that this has literally forced commercial borrowers to find new commercial lending sources and for the most part these efforts are proving to be productive and successful.There continue to be political efforts to break the logjam at business lenders which should be routinely providing business loans but instead are devoting their financial resources in other directions such as stock trading and derivatives. The fact that banks are still so active in derivatives transactions might be the biggest worry of all since this area largely caused the financial meltdown two years ago. In what should be readily seen as questionable investing behavior, bankers seem to be interested in generating short term profits while again overlooking the risks in their investment activities.Because of the difficulty in arranging routine commercial real estate loans and other small business loans while banks continue to engage in risky activities that make business funding less available, it has become prudent for borrowers to become more involved in assessing their realistic loan options by the prudent use of business bank consulting. It has become very clear to most objective observers that many (if not most) banks have stopped providing even routine small business financing.