Verified lending intelligence for borrowers, brokers, and lenders.

The Lender Draft tracks verified closed deal activity across 1,000+ commercial lenders ranked weekly across ABL, CRE, and Growth Capital. Stop guessing. Start with data.

ABL Lenders    CRE Lenders    Growth Cap Lenders


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How The Lender Draft Works

The Lender Draft is a dynamic performance engine.

We use a proprietary Game Day Performance™ model to convert raw deal flow into a competitive ranking.

 We only score deals publicly announced via press release or official disclosure. If it isn’t verified, it doesn’t count.

Lenders earn points for activity, complexity, and volume.

The result is an objective league table of the most active players in the commercial lending market right now.

The Industry’s Largest Verified Deal Flow Database

  • 1,000+ Lenders Tracked Across  CRE, Growth Capital, and ABL
  • 110+ Institutional Lenders Ranked Weekly (Banks & Private Credit)
  • 100+ Deals Verified Per Week
  • $30 billion+ in Capital Tracked Weekly
  • Key Market Intelligence on every lender 
  • Lender Rankings & Traction updated every Monday  

Analyze Any Lender

Click any lender to see their complete profile, verified deal history, and head-to-head performance.
Profiles show what lenders actually fund—helping borrowers find the right fit and brokers place deals faster.

Why use The Lender Draft?

For Borrowers

Find lenders actively funding your deal type right now.

Reduce the time to secure a term sheet and close your loan faster.

For Brokers

Close faster by matching clients with lenders based on verified funding activity, not hunches

Differentiate your advisory by accessing the same competitive intelligence that institutional capital uses

For Lenders

Get discovered by borrowers through verified performance, not ad spend.

Gain competitive market insight and improve your lending strategy

Check out our Top Headlines and Lenders Menu for all the latest news, matchups, and our top lenders

See All Lenders Ranked By Verified Weekly Deals 

Every lender is organized into a Conference (Bank vs. Private Credit) so you can compare apples to apples.

Stop Pitching, Start Winning

THIS WEEK'S HEADLINES MAY 25 - MAY 29 RECAP

CRE LENDERS

🥇 LENDER OF THE WEEK: MonticelloAM

1 deal | $435M Acquisition Bridge – Biggest Deal

MOST ACTIVE: Wells Fargo, JP Morgan, Goldman Sachs

📊 BIGGEST MOVERS: MonticelloAM, Dwight Capital, PNC Bank

Top News: Weekly Intelligence Brief

SEE ENTIRE CRE LENDER STANDINGS

GROWTH CAP LENDERS

🥇 LENDER OF THE WEEK: Fifth Third Bank

1 deal | $450M Revolving Credit Facility to RESIDCO – Biggest deal

MOST ACTIVE: JP Morgan, Wells Fargo, Bank of America

📊 BIGGEST MOVERS: None 

Top News: Weekly Intelligence Brief

SEE GROWTH CAP CLENDER STANDINGS

ABL LENDERS

🥇 LENDER OF THE WEEK: Southstar Capital
3 deals | $3M PO/ABL to Critical Power Solutions Supply Business – Biggest deal

MOST ACTIVE: SouthStar Capital, Baker Garrington, eCapital

📊 BIGGEST MOVERS: VFI Corporate Financing, Siena Lending, Capteris Capital 

Top News: Weekly Intelligence Brief

SEE ENTIRE ABL LENDER STANDINGS
The Lender Draft provides a fun, creative weekly snapshot of the ABL arena, all while creating friendly competition among ABL firms across the country. We are so grateful for the TLD team for the coverage and national exposure they have provided for our activity and for the exposure for the ABL industry overall. As a Sales Manager, The Lender Draft serves as a valuable tool to assess and strategically position ourselves to close more business.
Jeff D.
Jeff D.Regional Market Manager-Amerisource Business Capital
Initiatives like this bring energy, visibility, and a little fun to the commercial finance space, while highlighting the people and firms pushing the industry forward. We’re grateful to be part of something that celebrates competition, collaboration, and community across lending. We’ve loved following the weekly matchups and engaging with so many great lenders along the way.
Becca R
Becca RDirector of Marketing-Southstar Capital
I built my process on lender promises until a great borrower got ghosted by a ‘top-tier’ shop. I’ll never again tell a borrower ‘we’ll hear back soon’ without data to back it up. The Lender Draft answers the only question that matters—who is actually lending right now—and replaces hope with evidence. That kind of transparency changes everything.”
Zach B.
Zach B.M&A & Private Equity
Big shout out to the Lender Draft for adding fun, energy, and healthy competition to the financing space. Can’t wait for another epic year in 2026.
Alexandra
AlexandraSnr Exec VP-nFusion Capital
At Amerisource, we value the visibility that The Lender Draft provides into the market around us. Having real-time deal flow data packaged in such an engaging format has made this site one of my go-to resources.
Nolan
NolanSales BDO-Amerisource Business Capital
LenderDraft’ is now our go to direction finder pointing us to the right funders in unlocking the delivery and capitalisation to our deserving projects.
Janos T
Janos TLandau Capital Group

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The Rulebook for where Lenders Are Scouted, and Deals Get Drafted.

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