The SFNet Executive Committee and Member Directors of the Secured Finance Network have approved its FY23 SFNet Executive and Management Committee members.  In addition, the Secured Finance Foundation Board and its Member Donors have approved the FY23 SF Foundation Board and Officers.  These roles are essential to SFNet’s and SFFound’s governance process and to shaping the future of the organizations. SFNet encourages volunteers to join the committees listed below as the chairs develop their agendas in line with SFNet’s and SFFound’s mission and goals.

It’s only a matter of time before SaaS lending enters mainstream ABL.  Lending to SaaS, which stands for Software as a Service, differs from traditional software in that it is deployed and made accessible to users over the internet (or in the “Cloud”), and is going to be the next ABL battleground.  Today it remains a niche lending vertical conducted mostly by tech-focused banks and nonbank credit funds.  However, this is going to change meaningfully as the SaaS industry continues to mature. There are an estimated 10,000 private SaaS companies, the vast majority of which are early stage, generating less than $3 million in annual revenue.  To put this in perspective, companies such as the wildly popular Zoom and workforce tool Slack utilize SaaS models.  The U.S. economy is well into a transformational period where many business tools are moving to the cloud.