SLR Investment Corp

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SLR Investment Corp

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SLR Investment Corp is a business development company that lends money to middle-market companies. It mainly buys senior secured loans and other debt instruments made to businesses backed by private equity sponsors or needing flexible financing. Its customers are company borrowers, not retail consumers, and it earns money mostly from interest payments, fees, and occasional gains on its debt investments. The company sits in the part of the market between traditional banks and equity investors. It focuses on companies that are too large for small-business lending but may not want, or be able, to raise all of their capital in the public bond market. That gives SLR Investment a role as a direct lender that can structure customized loans and hold them as investments. This business is different from a bank because it is built around investing in loans rather than taking deposits and making a wide range of consumer or commercial banking products. It is also different from a private equity firm because it usually sits higher in the capital stack and gets paid like a creditor first, with less dependence on owning businesses outright.