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Business Verification

Shela Heramis

August 3, 2026

August 6, 2026

15 Minutes Read

Entity Status Changes: From Active to Delinquent and What Happens Next

When a borrower's Secretary of State status leaves Active, a cure window opens that varies by state. What each status costs a lender, and how long there is to act.

News

Shela Heramis

August 7, 2026

August 5, 2026

11 Minutes Read

Banks Loosened Business Credit Past Its Historical Midpoint, Citing Nonbank Competition

The Fed's July survey, released August 3, puts every other loan category at the tight end of its range since 2005, including the credit banks extend to nonbank lenders.

Business Verification

Shela Heramis

August 4, 2026

14 Minutes Read

What a Registered Agent Change Tells a Lender About Borrower Risk

A registered agent change is mostly noise. The one case that matters is a resignation with no replacement, which opens a statutory window ending in involuntary termination.

Business Verification

Shela Heramis

May 23, 2026

August 4, 2026

6 Minutes Read

EIN Verification for Marketplace Onboarding

A marketplace risk guide to validating seller business tax identity before onboarding, payout activation, and tax profile acceptance.

News

Shela Heramis

August 5, 2026

August 3, 2026

10 Minutes Read

Sallie Mae Targets $5 Billion a Year as Washington Exits Graduate Lending

The Ninth Circuit locked in $23 billion of borrower-defense relief the same month Grad PLUS ended. A roughly $15 billion a year federal market now belongs to private and state lenders, on private terms.

News

Shela Heramis

August 1, 2026

July 31, 2026

9 Minutes Read

Open Lending's Only Bidder Cut Its Offer From $3.50 to $3.15

Eight buyers were contacted and one bid. While the two sides negotiated, certified loan volume kept falling, and the offer followed it down.

Business Verification

Shela Heramis

June 3, 2026

July 31, 2026

7 Minutes Read

Foreclosure History Checks for Real Estate Lending

How real estate and bridge lenders check a borrowing entity's foreclosure and litigation history in court records, route by severity, and fall back to county records where coverage ends.

Business Verification

Shela Heramis

June 3, 2026

July 30, 2026

7 Minutes Read

PACER vs Cobalt Court Case API: A Lender's Comparison

PACER and the Cobalt Court Case API compared for lenders: federal nationwide access versus targeted programmatic state-court business signals, and why the two are complementary, not substitutes.

News

Shela Heramis

July 31, 2026

July 29, 2026

8 Minutes Read

Fortress Will Buy $1.5B of Merchant Advances

A three-year forward flow for 5-to-10% fixed-fee paper, terms undisclosed

Business Verification

Shela Heramis

June 3, 2026

July 29, 2026

7 Minutes Read

Top Court Records APIs Compared for Lenders

Court records APIs compared for lenders on the axes that matter: coverage, search method, latency, integration model, and audit trail, with where a targeted state-court API fits.