Other lending institutions that offer small business loans should follow this issue as state legislatures weigh tougher rules to protect borrowers.
With Dodd-Frank rulemaking slowing to a crawl (most recently a delay in finalizing the Volcker Rule) and ongoing debate in the European Union about where to go next with regulations in the wake of continued financial unrest, the only thing certain about future regulations is that there will be more and they will be increasingly stringent.