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New AAPL Member Discount: Alefy

By AAPL|2026-09-18T09:35:26-05:00September 18th, 2026|News, Operations, Technology|0 Comments

The American Association of Private Lenders (AAPL) is pleased to welcome Alefy as its newest Member Discount partner, providing private lenders with a way to monitor portfolio risk and identify new property, borrower, and entity-level issues after closing. Alefy is a risk intelligence platform trusted by lenders across the U.S. It monitors a lender's portfolio [...]

By AAPL|2026-09-18T09:35:26-05:00September 18th, 2026|News, Operations, Technology|0 Comments

Your Association at Work

By AAPL|2026-09-01T14:46:05-05:00September 2nd, 2026|News|0 Comments

AAPL has never been busier, and neither have the people helping move it forward. What a lean internal team of three once handled has expanded into a seven-person operation fully embedded across programming, partnerships, member services, events, content, and strategic initiatives. That growth has created more capacity to execute projects from “good idea” territory into [...]

By AAPL|2026-09-01T14:46:05-05:00September 2nd, 2026|News|0 Comments

Project as Company Surpasses $1 Billion in Loans Under Management

By AAPL|2026-09-01T10:32:27-05:00August 27th, 2026|News|1 Comment

Jersey City, N.J. – August 25th, 2026 – Asset Based Lending (ABL), a national private lender and a driving force behind the next generation of real estate investment, today announced it has funded its 10,000th real estate investment project, marking a significant milestone in the company's continued growth and commitment to serving real estate investors [...]

By AAPL|2026-09-01T10:32:27-05:00August 27th, 2026|News|1 Comment

Velocity to Acquire Toorak’s Operating Platform, Manage $3 Billion Portfolio

By AAPL|2026-08-27T09:02:27-05:00August 27th, 2026|Featured, News|0 Comments

Westlake Village, CA – August 27, 2026 – Velocity Financial, Inc. (NYSE: VEL) today announced a definitive agreement to acquire the operating platform of longtime AAPL member Toorak Capital LLC, a business-purpose lending and asset management firm which is majority owned by funds advised by affiliates of KKR, a leading global investment firm. Toorak has [...]

By AAPL|2026-08-27T09:02:27-05:00August 27th, 2026|Featured, News|0 Comments

AAPL Expands Industry Learning with the Education Forum

By AAPL|2026-07-07T15:18:28-05:00July 7th, 2026|AAPL in the News, Featured, News|0 Comments

AAPL Education Forum: Elevating Knowledge. Strengthening the Industry. AAPL is proud to announce an exciting evolution in our educational programming. After thoughtful consideration and feedback from our members, we are retiring the Fund Forum and introducing a broader, more inclusive platform: the AAPL Education Forum. The AAPL Education Forum expands beyond fund‑specific content to deliver [...]

By AAPL|2026-07-07T15:18:28-05:00July 7th, 2026|AAPL in the News, Featured, News|0 Comments

LendlyX, Inc. Welcomes Linda Hyde to Advisory Team

By AAPL|2026-06-23T10:36:29-05:00June 16th, 2026|News|0 Comments

Fort Worth, TX – June 16, 2026 – LendlyX, Inc., a technology company focused on fraud detection and loan file analysis for private lenders, today announced the addition of Linda Hyde to its Advisory Team. Hyde currently serves as President of the American Association of Private Lenders (AAPL) and has extensive experience working with private [...]

By AAPL|2026-06-23T10:36:29-05:00June 16th, 2026|News|0 Comments

Figure to Acquire Kiavi for $717 Million

By AAPL|2026-06-10T17:15:40-05:00June 10th, 2026|Featured, News|0 Comments

For more than a decade, technology-enabled lenders have focused on improving the borrower experience. The next competitive battleground appears to be the infrastructure behind those loans: how they are funded, traded, and distributed through capital markets. Figure's $717 million acquisition of Kiavi brings together one of the largest technology-driven residential investor lenders with a company [...]

By AAPL|2026-06-10T17:15:40-05:00June 10th, 2026|Featured, News|0 Comments

Private Lending Enters the Classroom

By AAPL|2026-07-07T14:20:28-05:00June 10th, 2026|News|1 Comment

When a University of Virginia professor built AAPL's CPLA certification into his curriculum, his students responded by treating it less like coursework and more like the real thing. Private lending has spent decades occupying an awkward space in the public imagination. To outsiders, it’s flattened into caricature: hard-money cowboys, opportunistic capital, transactional chaos, guys named Rick [...]

By AAPL|2026-07-07T14:20:28-05:00June 10th, 2026|News|1 Comment

AAPL Celebrates Member Recognition in Scotsman Guide’s 2026 Top Private Lenders Ranking

By Kat Hungerford|2026-05-29T13:21:14-05:00June 1st, 2026|News|0 Comments

Sixteen AAPL Members Earn Spots on Industry’s Verified Private Lending Ranking The American Association of Private Lenders (AAPL) is proud to recognize 16 member companies named to Scotsman Guide’s 2026 Top Private Lenders ranking, an industry benchmark honoring private lenders delivering capital solutions to real estate investors and mortgage brokers nationwide. Among the 22 lenders [...]

By Kat Hungerford|2026-05-29T13:21:14-05:00June 1st, 2026|News|0 Comments

HDRB&B Launches Miami Office and Adds South Florida Attorney Jessica Franklin as Partner New Miami Office Expands Firm’s Florida Presence and Private Lending Platform.

By Chrissy Spencer|2026-05-26T11:57:53-05:00May 26th, 2026|News|0 Comments

MIAMI, F.L. – APRIL 21, 2026 -- Hartmann Doherty Rosa Berman & Bulbulia LLP (HDRB&B) is pleased to announce the launch of its Miami office and the addition of Jessica Franklin as Partner in the firm’s Private Lending Group. Located in Coconut Grove, the new office reflects HDRB&B’s continued growth in Florida and increasing demand [...]

By Chrissy Spencer|2026-05-26T11:57:53-05:00May 26th, 2026|News|0 Comments

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