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Shela Heramis

November 7, 2025

November 06, 2025

6 Minutes Read

Viola Credit closes $2 billion ABL fund

To be deployed across 30-40 tech-enabled lenders

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Shela Heramis

November 7, 2025

November 04, 2025

8 Minutes Read

First Brands Alleged Multibillion-Dollar Fraud

$2.3B Vanishes: UBS, Jefferies, Raistone Lost Millions

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Shela Heramis

November 6, 2025

November 5, 2025

3 Minutes Read

Manulife acquires majority stake in Comvest Credit Partners

Comvest Partners has completed the sale of a 75% interest in its direct lending platform, Comvest Credit Partners, to Manulife Financial Corporation, thereby establishing a private credit asset management platform now branded as Manulife | Comvest Credit Partners.

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Shela Heramis

October 30, 2025

6 Minutes Read

OppFi Q3: Profits During Credit Stress

Dynamic Pricing Strategy Response to Margin Compression

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Shela Heramis

October 28, 2025

6 Minutes Read

Upgrade Closes $165M at $7.3B Valuation

$42B originated, 7.5M customers, 3yrs Positive Cash Flow, $1B Annualized Revenue

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Shela Heramis

October 28, 2025

October 23, 2025

8 Minutes Read

Credibly AI Underwriting Patent

85% Cost Reduction in Operations and 4x Volume Processing

Alternative Financing

Shela Heramis

October 23, 2025

October 27, 2025

6 Minutes Read

What's the actual success rate of lenders who implement better verification?

The transition from traditional, manual underwriting processes to sophisticated automated verification systems represents a fundamental recalibration of how alternative business lenders and institutional executives manage risk and deploy capital.

Alternative Financing

Shela Heramis

October 23, 2025

October 24, 2025

6 Minutes Read

Which lenders have actually solved "implementation duration problem" and what did it cost them?

The era of protracted, error-prone manual underwriting is officially obsolete.

Alternative Financing

Shela Heramis

October 23, 2025

6 Minutes Read

How long does it actually take to implement better verification systems?

While implementation time varies depending on the complexity of the desired solution—ranging from deploying a single API function to overhauling an entire loan origination system—modern, cloud-native tools are designed for rapid deployment, cutting the traditional multi-month timelines into mere weeks for core functions.

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