As I wrote in the merchant cash advance blog last week, we have a lot of exciting things going on at the office. Unfortunately that has left me less time to write my blog due to my reduced time to read articles where I get ideas and inspirations from. However, I have been doing a lot of reading about credit risk and risk modeling lately. Here are some of the better stuff (web sites, articles) and such that I have tackled. A lot of this applies to underwriting Merchant Cash Advances and financing small businesses.

The Black Swan by Nicholas Taleb (I've mentioned him before, but Taleb is one smart cookie who has a unique way of looking at the market)

This is an article written in Condé Nast Portfolio Magazine by one of my favorite authors, Michael Lewis (Liar’s Poker, Moneyball, The Blind Side). It talks about Taleb’s view of risk versus the Black-Scholes Model for Pricing Risk, and the short-comings of the model.

Default Risk is a great website with links to academic papers and practical ideas with respect to credit risk and underwriting.

Portfolio Magazine has 2 excellent blogs, updated many times throughout the day, an Economics Blog as well as a Finance Blog