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Underwriting SBA loans requires attention to details, skill, and experience. As part of our lender consulting services , we routinely...

Do you remember our article back in 2022 on Electronic Loan File Stacking , a.k.a ELFS? Maybe not – 2022 was a long time ago! In that...

We’d be willing to bet that your team has some creative workarounds for the sometimes annoying, yet generally unavoidable mismatches...

Over the years, our Lender SBA consulting has brought us a lot  of questions from clients. And those questions have ratcheted up since...

As an SBA Lender Service Provider, we are asked to perform annual loan reviews for many of our clients.  With each one we add to our...

As an SBA lender service provider, we see many things during our SBA loan reviews and SBA loan liquidation work. One area where we...

As part of our SBA lender consulting services, we’re often contracted to complete loan reviews. Whether it’s a post-closing review, an...

Working capital. We talk about it a lot with our clients during our SBA training sessions. It might be a discussion in one of the lender...

It’s been a lot these last few months. Three new SOPs from SBA ( 50 10 7 , 50 57 3 , and the updates in 50 10 7.1 ). Inflation...

Do you litigate? Quick answer: yes, you do – and if you haven’t yet, someday you will when a Borrower declares bankruptcy, or there’s...

Ever driven past someone stopped for speeding? We all have. (Note: we’re not asking if you’ve ever been stopped for speeding!) We speed...

Whether you’re thinking about starting or expanding your SBA Lending department, or simply updating it based on new SOPs, a key factor is...

There’s no shortage of things causing stress in life, at work – and as an SBA Lender. Yikes. Let’s just look at recent concerns about...

There’s either a Technical Update or revised SOP 50 10 7 coming soon, but who knows when “soon” will be. So, “Do what you do – until we...

There are a lot of changes in the new SOPs 50 10 7 and 50 57 3 , and all of them are effective 8/1/2023. Yikes. That’s just a few days...

As we’re sure you recall, we discussed documenting equity injections in an article back in August of 2021. (Yes, that was a while ago....

EPC/OC loans aren’t all that difficult. But that doesn’t mean things don’t get missed! Sometimes the simpler something is, the easier it...

You knew it was coming – and yes, it’s here: Prime rate increases have been on the rise. On March 15th of 2020, the Prime rate went back...

We've been hearing it's been a challenge for SBA 7a lenders to find, hire, and maintain an experienced SBA 7a lending team. Whether it's...

Welcome to the final article in our series on SBA Screen Outs. You can find the others by following these links: Errors in Loan...