Franchise Finance
Tailored financial expertise for franchisees
Having a strong banking relationship with a financial partner who truly understands your industry is critical to the success of your business. By offering multiple viewpoints, providing fresh perspectives, and working directly with you to analyze your needs, we bring you forward-thinking solutions that matter.
Our promise to you is simple. We'll provide competitive products, trustworthy service and deliver on what we say we can do.
- Do your current covenant packages work for you?
- Is your financial partner helping you streamline and maximize your profits?
- Are you strategically targeting acquisitions and need a financial partner to help position you to win?
- Are you planning to remodel or have new unit growth initiatives?
Bringing breadth with depth
We offer customized credit facilities* and loan covenants to meet your specific business needs, with competitive terms and structures that work for you.
We also tailor solutions to serve the unique needs of franchisees in cash management, corporate cards and payables solutions as well as wealth management.
- Conventional business and real estate term loans and lines of credit for owners typically with 10 or more locations
- Syndicated facilities for larger transactions
- Terms up to 7 years (10 years on a case-by-case basis)
- Amortizations ranging from 5 – 20 (25 years for certain real estate properties)
- Fixed and floating rates
Commercial banking services for success today and tomorrow
With dedicated local resources who bring in-depth experience and expertise, we deliver your business a full array of banking services and financial solutions designed specifically for franchises.
Customized financial solutions
We combine a “customer-comes-first” work ethic of a small bank with the capabilities of a larger bank. In addition to offering a range of commercial loans and lines of credit, we customize highly specialized financing solutions.*
- Asset Based Lending
- Equipment loans and leases
- Interest rate risk management
- Syndicated finance
Managing risk
Drawing on our industry expertise and the extensive resources of People’s United Bank, you'll have access to investment solutions tailored to the unique needs of franchisees. Our franchise experts work with an integrated team of financial professionals—who work with your team as well.
Uncommon expertise
Beyond delivering practical financial solutions, we bring thought-leadership and insights from our on-the-ground experts for perspective about what's happening in your industry.
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Disclosure
*Credit approval required.
More solutions for your business
On April 2, 2022, People's United Bank, N.A. merged into M&T Bank. It is now part of M&T Bank and its former branches and most services will operate as the People's United division of M&T Bank until we complete the integration of our systems later in 2022. M&T Bank is a Member FDIC, 
Equal Housing Lender and Equal Opportunity Lender.