

New Litigation Requirements!
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...

Rebecca Mendoza
Nov 28, 2023


Non-delegated Lender? Slow down to speed up your 7(a) loans!
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...

Lori N. McCausland
Nov 3, 2023


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

Lori N. McCausland
Oct 26, 2023


On a Different Note - Managing Stress
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...

Rebecca Mendoza
Oct 11, 2023


Changes to Equity Injection Under the New SOP
SBA is cheerfully categorizing the changes in its recently-released SOP 50 7 3 as “improvements” – which they may well be, but Lenders...

Lori N. McCausland
Sep 27, 2023


Delinquent Loans: Eight Potential Problems
Our last article discussed Post-Purchase Packages – the documentation required from Lenders by SBA for loans sold on the secondary market...

Lori N. McCausland
Sep 13, 2023


Those Pesky Post-Purchase Packages
When loans are sold on the secondary market, and you as the Lender have requested SBA to repurchase the loan from the investor, next...

Lori N. McCausland
Aug 29, 2023


New Borrower Certification Requirements
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...

Rebecca Mendoza
Aug 16, 2023


SBA Says: Do What You Do!
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...

Rebecca Mendoza
Jul 24, 2023


1502 Reporting Review
We’ve written before about the importance of staying on top of your 1502 reporting to the SBA. There have been a few recent updates, so...

Lori N. McCausland
Jul 18, 2023

