Commercial Lending Update

While 2024 was a slow year for borrower demand — as election-related uncertainty and high interest rates put pressure on lenders’ commercial clients — the top-performing banks with between $10 billion and $50 billion of […]

A slump in short-term credit flows to US businesses is underscoring growing risks to the world’s largest economy, according to one economist. Total commercial and industrial (C&I) lending shrank 1% year-to-date, compared with a 9.3% […]

BATON ROUGE, La. (press release) — Cardinal Capital, a boutique commercial finance advisory firm based in Baton Rouge, says the artificial intelligence (AI) boom is no longer just a Silicon Valley story—it’s reshaping the energy […]

In the world of mystery and wonder that is the current tariff landscape, the buzzwords for business have been instability and uncertainty, which also happen to be two of the least desired words in the […]

At the same time, delinquencies in core CRE loans are on the rise. In total, they reached $31.4 billion in the first quarter, representing a 1.70% overall delinquency rate. Of this amount, $25.1 billion—about 80%—are […]

SAN ANTONIO, November 05, 2024–(BUSINESS WIRE)–IBC Bank, one of the leading financial institutions in the US, is delighted to announce a strategic partnership with Finanta, a pioneer in financial technology solutions, aimed at revolutionizing its […]

A commercial mortgage fraud scandal is getting big and ugly. Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, the Federal Housing Finance Agency and other government agencies have been investigating suspect deals for the past few years, but their […]

SALT LAKE CITY (WKRC) – Nissan has submitted an application to form a bank in the United States. Nissan Motor Acceptance Company (NMAC), the financial services arm of Nissan North America, has applied to the […]

Commercial real estate lender Ladder Capital (NYSE:LADR) fell short of the market’s revenue expectations in Q1 CY2025, with sales falling 18.9% year on year to $51.28 million. Its non-GAAP profit of $0.20 per share was […]

While the future of the U.S. economy is uncertain, confidence in commercial real estate lending remains strong.  The Mortgage Bankers Association expects commercial and multifamily mortgage borrowing and lending to rise to $583B in 2025, a 16% increase […]