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Tight Credit Gets Tighter

Smaller companies find borrowing harder, survey says

By staff Writer | Updated on February 28, 2010

Two years into the financial crisis, small and midsize companies report that it’s still tough to obtain loans from banks. In fact, 58% of 560 small and midsize companies that negotiated or refinanced a loan over the last three months say that it was harder to obtain credit than it had been a year earlier, according to the latest quarterly survey by Greenwich Associates, and 36% of those companies described it as “much harder” to borrow. Twenty-seven percent of companies say they saw no change in the difficulty of arranging credit, and 15% say it was easier to borrow over the last three months than it was a year earlier.

The Greenwich Credit Availability Index measures how many companies view credit as easier vs. harder to obtain. The index has been in negative territory, indicating that more companies are having a hard time getting loans–for small businesses since the first quarter of 2008 and for midsize companies since the third quarter of 2008.

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