NEW YORK, June 24, 2009 / GLOBE Newswire / -- Manhattan Bridge Capital, Inc. (Nasdaq: LOAN - news) announced today that the company’s board of directors authorized management to increase the cash limit allocated to the lending business from $7 million to $14 million.
 “As we continue to maintain our growth pattern and conservative approach which allows us to increase our earnings consecutively while avoiding defaults and other problematic situations related to our loans portfolio, we asked our board of directors to authorize management to increase the amount of money available to our lending operations. Gratefully the board approved our request and we are now set to move on to the next stage of growth. We are working to arrange lines of credit in order to make additional funds available for the company’s use.” stated Assaf Ran, Chairman of the Board and CEO.

Manhattan Bridge Capital, Inc., provides short term, secured, non–banking, commercial loans to small businesses. In addition we developed innovative software and a related web site that allows retail businesses and other service providers to reach prospective customers and clients for their goods and services in a more effective way than traditional on-line and print yellow pages searches. We operate several web sites including: http://www.manhattanbridgecapital.com. and  http://www.nextyellow.com.

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