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Brian Caswell has a message for entrepreneurs who say they are frozen out of traditional bank lending: There is hope.

Caswell wraps the hope in Cazley Financing Solutions. It's a Sarasota-based firm that raises money from private investors, mostly in small chunks of $10,000 or so. Then it divvies up the funds in loans to a group of previously screened companies.

“We're in the business of selling money,” says Caswell, a onetime commercial loan executive for Bank of America. “We want to make loans to businesses.”