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Streamline Commercial Loan Origination

Commercial loan processing is the process of evaluating, approving, and disbursing a commercial loan. This typically involves several key steps, including collecting and reviewing the borrower's financial and personal information, evaluating the borrower's creditworthiness, and determining the terms and conditions of the loan.

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The commercial loan processing process begins when a borrower applies for a loan. The borrower typically provides information about themselves and their business, such as their financial statements, tax returns, and business plan. This information is then used by the lender to evaluate the borrower's creditworthiness and determine whether they are a good credit risk.

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If the borrower is approved for the loan, the lender will then determine the terms and conditions of the loan, such as the interest rate, loan amount, and repayment schedule. Once these terms have been agreed upon, the lender will generate the necessary loan documents, such as the promissory note and loan agreement.

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Once the loan documents have been signed by the borrower and the lender, the loan is disbursed. The lender will typically transfer the loan proceeds to the borrower's account, and the borrower can then use the funds for their intended purpose, such as purchasing inventory or equipment.

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Overall, commercial loan processing is an important part of the lending process, as it helps ensure that loans are made to borrowers who are likely to be able to repay them. By carefully evaluating and approving commercial loans, lenders can help protect their investments and reduce the risk of losses.

What are the steps involved in processing commercial loan?

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The steps involved in processing a commercial loan typically include:

  1. Collecting and reviewing the borrower's financial and personal information. This might include the borrower's financial statements, tax returns, and business plan, as well as information about the borrower's credit history and personal finances.

  2. Evaluating the borrower's creditworthiness. This involves using the information collected in step 1 to determine whether the borrower is a good credit risk, and whether they are likely to be able to repay the loan.

  3. Determining the terms and conditions of the loan. This might include the interest rate, loan amount, and repayment schedule.

  4. Generating the necessary loan documents. This typically includes the promissory note and loan agreement, which outline the terms and conditions of the loan and must be signed by the borrower and the lender.

  5. Disbursing the loan. Once the loan documents have been signed, the lender will typically transfer the loan proceeds to the borrower's account, and the borrower can then use the funds for their intended purpose.

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Overall, these are the key steps involved in processing a commercial loan. The specific steps and details may vary depending on the individual loan and the lender's requirements.

Streamlining Loan Origination ensures your team can make better decisions, faster with automated document collection and reminders as well as ongoing loan management. Loan Origination is an important part of managing borrowers financial and reporting documents for loan monitoring. Almost 70% of banks still rely on some combination of spreadsheets, core ticklers, or other manual processes.

BankStride is a digital banking platform you've been waiting for. BankStride makes it easy for banks to automate loan documents, exceptions tracking, loan reporting and covenant monitoring. No more managing checklists, searching for files in emails, or waiting on updates from other parties. Just create your requests and let BankStride do the work for you. 

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Many Banks and lending companies depend on non-public client information to provide their
services. Examples include:

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  • Automate Document Gathering

  • Checklist For Loan Reporting Requirements

  • Frictionless Customer Experience To Send Documents

  • Create Credit Exceptions & Tickler Tracking

  • Automated Loan Monitoring and Loan Compliance

  • Loan Reporting, Risk & Financial Reporting


Without a dedicated tool, professionals would have to manually manage checklists and calendar
events to keep track of all required information. BankStride automates this work while improving
security and reporting.

Why BankStride platform

  • BankStride is a web-based software solution for commercial banks and credit unions that works with customers to manage loan agreements and eliminate credit exceptions. FileStride improves credit exception management by reaching beyond the walls of the bank to work directly with customers.

  • BankStride is like autopay for customer information.

  • With BankStride, banking teams can schedule recurring requests for documents like financial statements and tax returns, compare actual and threshold covenant values (e.g. minimum DSCR), and send compliance certificates for signature via DocuSign.

  • Customers respond to information requests much like paying an online invoice – they clearly see what’s required of them and they act. Customers can respond using a login-less portal or by email – no account or password required.

How does this help banks

  • A borrower’s risk profile can change significantly over the years that follow a lending event. Managing loan agreement adherence through reporting and internal monitoring is an ongoing and tedious battle for banks. 

  • Banks that pursue superb loan agreement management are faced with handling complex recurring tasks using the basic tools of email, spreadsheets, and calendar ticklers. Banks that let this work fall behind risk delaying their awareness of problematic loans or operating practices, jeopardizing capital and reputation.

  • With BankStride, banks gain high-resolution loan agreement monitoring that saves time and delights customers.

How does our bank customer use BankStride

  • Our bank customer uses BankStride to schedule and automate the activities required to monitor loan agreements. 

  • For example, BankStride has proven effective in managing revolving lines of credit. BankStride  automatically requests and reminds customers to submit monthly AR and AP listings, inventory analyses, and borrowing base certificates each month. 

  • BankStride reminds the banking team to test various financial ratios. The results of the customer’s actions and the ratio testing all roll up to per-banker and per-office reports that can be run on-demand in seconds.

BankStride is powerful for bankers

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LOAN

MONITORING

  • Track financial reporting, covenants, and certificates.

  • Issue compliance certificates for signature via DocuSign.

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REPORTS AT EVERY LEVEL

  • Bank leadership can drill down to identify pockets of risk and underperformance.

  • Every member of the team knows where to focus.

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FLEXIBLE INFORMATION MANAGEMENT

  • BankStride supports one-off and recurring information requests.

  • Flexible storage layer configuration options available.

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Easy for bank customers

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NO USERNAMES

AND

NO PASSWORDS

  • Customers receive tokenized links that enable portal access.

  • Bankers can request information from anybody with an email address.

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UPLOAD OR EMAIL

  • Easy to use customer portals show the customer exactly what is needed.

  • Email-based file ingestion enables customers to email files in response to requests.

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TIMELY ALERTS

  • Reminders and alerts are aggregated to prevent information overload.

  • Alerts can be toggled per-user.

  • Customizable reminder schedules.

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STREAMLING LOAN UNDERWRITING, LOAN MONITORING, COVANENTS, FINANCIAL REPORTING

Automate Bank customer information requests for covenant monitoring , loan reporting, financial reporting and exception handling.

FiStride allows you and your customers to exchange information with zero friction so that you can reduce credit exceptions and recover valuable time. 
BANKERS STREAMLINE LOAN REPORTING DOCUMENTS

Know what you have, know what you need.

Why BankStride?

We're the digital banking solution you've been waiting for.

We make it easy to automate your loan reporting and covenant monitoring. No more managing checklists, searching for files in emails, or waiting on updates from other parties. Just create your requests and let BankStride do the work for you. 

How it works

BankStride combines checklists with cloud storage to help you communicate and monitor your information requests and covenants.

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All it takes to get started:

  1. ​Request items by creating projects for one-off items or templated lists.

  2. Review incoming files from your client and mark items as satisfied or complete.

  3. Repeat with automatically recurring requests and reminders.

Who it's for

BankStride is a solution for individuals, teams, and banks that need a better way to request information. We've facilitated thousands of customer relationships and transactions with teams in banking, accounting, consulting,  and advisory services, just to name a few. 

FEATURES

Bankers increase efficiency and improve loan risk and compliance with loan monitoring, reporting and exceptions.

Know what you have,
know what you need

Create recurring requests with status indicators, reports and automatic nudges that keep everybody in the know.

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Many ways in,
password optional

Customers have the option to send files through email or a login-less portal. Either way, we get the files where they need to go.

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Built to empower bankers

Track and monitor financial reporting, covenants, and certificates, and identify pockets of risk and non-compliance.

Structured for you and
your team

Add your colleagues with a single click, and manage access permissions so the whole team can get the job done. 

We've facilitated over 1,000,000 client interactions...and counting.

Who are we
Seth J.

"BankStride has saved us tremendous time and effort by getting exactly the information we need."

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