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Commercial Lending

A LaserPro Comparison: GoDocs vs. LaserPro

Every platform in this space will tell you their documents are good. Most will tell you their integrations work, their support team is responsive, and their system handles complexity. The difference between GoDocs and LaserPro isn’t in the claims. Rather, it’s in what happens when your loans get complex, your volume increases, and your team...

May 29, 2026
Commercial Lending
app-driven pace of modern borrower life with the paper-heavy, manual workflows still common in commercial lending departments.

Lessons from Texas: What Banks and Credit Unions Should Start Demanding from Their Vendors

Lending Has Changed. Borrowers Have Changed. Lending Tech Providers Need To Do More. Reflections from the Baker Hill and Abrigo client conferences.  I just got back from the client conferences of Baker Hill and Abrigo. Both were high-quality, intentional events, with a lot of conversation around innovation, technology, AI (of course), and client relationships. I came...

May 14, 2026
Commercial Lending

6 Commercial Lending Myths Costing Banks and Credit Unions

6 Commercial Lending Myths That Are Costing Banks and Credit Unions Time, Revenue, and Competitive Ground Most commercial lending teams aren’t losing ground because of bad strategy. They’re losing ground because of beliefs that were never questioned. These six myths are hiding in plain sight in how teams talk about risk, technology, AI, and vendor...

April 27, 2026
Commercial Lending

Is Familiarity Slowing Down Your Commercial Loan Process?

One of the biggest obstacles to improving commercial lending operations isn’t technology, regulation, or staffing. What is it?  It’s familiarity, that idea that because you know how it works, you have everything under control. When a system has been around long enough, people stop questioning it. They stop noticing the extra steps, the small inefficiencies, and the quiet frustrations that crept into the process...

April 15, 2026
Commercial Lending

3 Core Workout Strategies for Distressed Commercial Loans

In today’s commercial lending environment, even thoroughly researched, well-structured loans can experience challenges. When that happens, lenders do not have to react without protections or alternatives. While lenders cannot control interest rates, inflation, or broader market volatility, they can control the tools they have available and the options they can create to respond to their distressed loans.  The most successful lenders know that timing, options and flexibility make the greatest differences when crafting a successful workout....

March 9, 2026
Commercial Lending

Run a Curiosity Audit on Your Commercial Lending Process

Your Monday Move: Run a Curiosity Audit If things feel more complex than they should right now — slower closings, closing document rebuilds because terms weren’t fully captured, more “who owns this?” moments — this week, get curious about the friction. In commercial lending, friction rarely announces itself as a crisis. It shows up as rekeying borrower information multiple...

March 4, 2026
Commercial Lending

Signs a Commercial Loan May Require a Workout

Successful commercial lending decisions rely on timing, vigilance, and control. While lenders cannot influence interest rates or the broader market, they can control how quickly they respond when loans begin showing signs of stress. From our experience working with the most successful lenders, proactivity by those lenders clearly is essential. Those lenders who achieve the best outcomes have the tools to identify early warning signs which...

February 10, 2026
Commercial Lending

GoDocs Reveals 2025 Commercial Lending Data, Emerging Trends for 2026

GoDocs Reveals 2025 Lending Data, Emerging Trends for 2026 GoDocs platform data reveals a sharp rise in commercial lending activity, with double-digit year-over-year growth across key categories such as CRE and C&I loans. The data also shows an increase in loan modifications and larger average deal sizes. Early indicators suggest that this growth is set...

January 26, 2026
Commercial Lending

5 Risks in Today’s CRE Debt Market

Commercial real estate (CRE) lending is entering a period of heightened complexity. Market volatility, shifting interest rates, and evolving state-level regulations are creating new challenges for banks and credit unions. Understanding these risks is essential to protecting your institution and supporting borrowers through successful, compliant transactions.  In this post, we highlight five major risks shaping the 2026...

January 12, 2026
Commercial Lending

7 Proven Ways to Take Control of Your CRE Loan Closings

Closing commercial real estate (CRE) lending is inherently complex. Refinancing cycles, regulatory requirements, and evolving market conditions mean that lenders must manage risk carefully and execute efficiently. Taking control of your closing process helps ensure accuracy, reduce delays, and support stronger decision-making.   Across hundreds of transactions and countless conversations with GoDocs clients and industry partners, seven practices stand...

January 6, 2026
Commercial Lending

Equipment Lenders: Don’t Sweat Forum Shopping. Draft for It.

Imagine heading into a game where the opposing team picks the court, the referee, and even the game clock. That’s what forum shopping feels like for equipment lenders when debtors (borrowers) file bankruptcy in courts friendlier to borrowers. The recent Equipment Finance News report calls this “forum shopping on behalf of the debtor,” and it’s no small challenge—one that can threaten enforcement strategy. But here’s the...

December 16, 2025
Commercial Lending

Opinion: This Is the Only Way Commercial Equipment Lenders Can Survive State-by-State Compliance Chaos

Every few months, another state rewrites the compliance rulebook, and every time, lenders scramble to adjust. The new Equipment Finance News report lays it bare: state-by-state differences in commercial equipment financing laws are a strategic fault line dividing lenders who adapt from those who risk falling behind.  Proactive equipment lenders are asking whether they can truly scale by reacting to every regulatory...

December 16, 2025

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