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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

TOP LENDERS AUG 31 - SEPT 4

Last week in focus

CRE

LENDER OF THE WEEK: Nuveen

BIGGEST MOVERS: Deutsche Bank, BMO, Nuveen

September Winning Lenders:
Goldman Sachs, Truist Bank, New York Life, Barclays, Fortress, Nuveen, Wells Fargo, Barings

Week 2 Matchups:
Goldman Sachs vs. Truist Bank
New York Life vs. Barclays
Fortress vs. Nuveen
Wells Fargo vs. Barings

GROWTH CAPITAL

LENDER OF THE WEEK: JP Morgan

BIGGEST MOVERS: National Bank of Canada, Deutsche Bank, Santander, BBVA

September Winning Lenders:
JP Morgan, Bank of America, PNC, MUFG, Citigroup, Monroe Capital, Goldman Sachs, Wells Fargo

Week 2 Matchups:
JP Morgan vs. Bank of America
PNC vs. MUFG
Citigroup vs. Monroe Capital
Goldman Sachs vs. Wells Fargo

ABL

LENDER OF THE WEEK: Rosenthal Capital Group

BIGGEST MOVERS: Celtic Capital, Utica Equipment Finance

September Winning Lenders:
JP Morgan, nFusion Capital, Republic Business Credit, The Hedaya Capital Group, SouthStar Capital, JD Factors, First Business Bank, eCapital

Week 2 Matchups:
JP Morgan vs. nFusion Capital
Republic Business Credit vs. The Hedaya Capital Group
SouthStar Capital vs. JD Factors
First Business Bank vs. eCapital

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
120+ 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

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.

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.

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.”

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.

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.

LenderDraft’ is now our go to direction finder pointing us to the right funders in unlocking the delivery and capitalisation to our deserving projects.

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