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Are you interested in Asset-Backed Finance, Asset Based Lending, ABS, Specialty Finance, Private Credit, and/or Tech-Enabled Lending? This blog and our podcast Asset Backed are focused on providing education and insights into this $20 trillion (some say $40-$50 trillion) industry. Improving your understanding and awareness of this massive but often opaque world of asset-backed lending and specialty finance can be quite difficult even for the most seasoned professionals.
Compared to private equity, venture capital, real estate, digital assets, or the more common GP sponsor-finance private credit area, specialty finance and asset-backed finance remains relatively unknown to industry outsiders. What is specialty finance? What are some of the different specialties or verticals? How does origination and underwriting happen? What are the hallmarks of a best-in-class originator and originations platform? At the individual facility level what are some common features, terms, and conditions? How do you avoid ‘getting your face ripped off’ at the closing table if you are looking for your first warehouse or asset-based revolver? What is critical to know when preparing to go-to-market to secure institutional backing from a debt provider? How do lawyers, banks, servicers, capital markets technology firms, loan management platforms, and ratings agencies fit into the deal equation? Who are the critical parties required to successfully close a deal and then monitor the covenants and requirements of the loan docs? How does one quickly find product market fit with a new loan product? Who are the capital providers of seed-stage debt facilities or first-loss capital or ‘haircut capital’? What is necessary to scale up originations rapidly? What are future capital partners looking for at the earliest stages of a loan originations platform? Where is innovation taking place and who are the key organizations to know as you reach various milestones? Podcast episodes are dropped and posts are published on average twice per month. Subscribe to get full access to the blog and Asset Backed podcast and publication archives.
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Andres Sandate is a registered financial advisor with Gramercy Park Wealth Advisors, LLC, and GPWA, LLC, Member FINRA/SIPC. Individual CRD# 5238027
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