September 21, 2023
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August 15th, 2023
CTrust selected as one of the recipients of the 2023 Inno on Fire Award for Innovation, presented to CEO Dotan Y. Melech in Washington, D.C. on
August 15, 2023.
April 20th, 2023
The company wants to give lenders the information they need to confidently make loans to marijuana operators.
February 21st, 2023
2022 kicked off with strong headline-making cannabis company deals. Yet the year proved a disappointment. In February 2022, the LivWell/Pharmacann deal closed, but there were few notable announcements that have closed since then.
February 2, 2023
Investors remain wary of the CBD space, as the continued regulatory limbo puts the brakes on growth. But a dedicated core of consumers offers hope for the future.
January 18, 2023
A decade-long boom stopped abruptly, leaving businesses dangling and investors and debt-holders wary. The industry can turn things around by adopting a few common-sense measures.
Jan 4, 2023
For D.C., Maryland and Virginia, navigating these changes will be an ongoing challenge as long as marijuana remains illegal at the federal level.
December 29th, 2022
Welcome to the fourth and final piece of our 2023 Cannabis Industry Predictions series, this time featuring the voices and opinions of industry experts in cannabis finance, policy, international markets, real estate, and more.
December 5, 2022
by Dotan Y. Melech
Eight years after Giadha DeCarcer founded D.C. research firm New Frontier Data to bring information and transparency to the then-nascent legal cannabis industry, she’s now setting out to help clear another massive hurdle in the space: access to capital.
November 25, 2022
by Sara Gilgore and Pete Danko bizjournals.com
Eight years after Giadha DeCarcer founded D.C. research firm New Frontier Data to bring information and transparency to the then-nascent legal cannabis industry, she’s now setting out to help clear another massive hurdle in the space: access to capital.
November 6, 2022
CTrust has just launched a business credit score rating system for the cannabis industry. This first-of-a-kind tool is intended to solve the liquidity challenges in the cannabis industry by increasing access to and lowering the cost of capital. CTrust has dedicated close to a decade to R&D efforts geared towards creating a comprehensive, sophisticated, and tested risk assessment tool. Increasing financial and operational transparency is likely to boost investor confidence in the cannabis industry, something that has been lacking since the legal industry was conceived.
November 3, 2022
The lending and investment sector in the cannabis industry continues to expand. As this becomes a reality, CTrust wants to keep better track with a commercial credit score, an activity that is very common in traditional industries. The firm is pioneering this implementation and wants stakeholders in the burgeoning market to understand what the risks and benefits really are going forward.
November 02, 2022
Giadha A. DeCarcer appointed CEO after eight years founding and leading New Frontier Data DALLAS, Nov. 02, 2022 — After almost a decade of research and development, CTrust introduces the first of its kind cannabis business credit score – Cannabis Trust Score (CTS) – providing a sophisticated, comprehensive and tested formula to assess investment…
November 1st, 2022
by Robert Hoban Contributor forbes.com
The cannabis industry and its participants are caught up in a seemingly endless hunt for capital sources. The early days of the commercially regulated cannabis industry witnessed an abundance of equity investment. Often, this came in absurd amounts based on jaw-dropping valuations across the United…
Watch an open conversation between lenders, regulators, operators, legal and financial experts as we explore the causes, impacts and remedies to the critical need for capital in the industry today.