Chicago, IL [March 16, 2009] - Six months after it's September 2008 announcement and in the face of today's grim headlines and pessimistic outlook for conventional credit markets, UFT Commercial Finance announces the launch of its new web site and web portal for commercial borrowers and lending institutions.  

UFT Commercial Finance, a private non-depository commercial lender and Network Manager of the Participating Lender Network developed in partnership with United Financial Technologies, Inc., brings the prospect of new sources of funding to the liquidity-starved mid-market sector.  This business model is focused on providing senior and mezzanine debt in the $3 million to $50 million (USD) range for a variety of asset-based, cash-flowing businesses while concurrently affording the option of applying a networked mechanism to invite other lenders to participate in select qualifying credits.   

UFT Commercial Finance holds rights to certain financial technology developed by United Financial Technologies that permits the establishment of a master wholesale networked lending marketplace among mid-tier and regional banks, financial institutions and private lenders throughout the United States and abroad.  The advent of a Participating Lender Network combined with a standard set of master credit terms and conditions promotes greater transparency and the introduction of aggregated credit-linked liquidity.  More importantly, this Participating Lender Network is an efficient mechanism for coordinating its members to not only support credits originated by UFT Commercial Finance, but to permit its members to originate credits for their own customers under common underwriting guidelines and bring those credits forward for participation by other members of the Network.   

“This is a critical difference between our Master Participating Lender Network and the commonplace home-grown lender participation network.  Generally, other participation networks are a credit and syndication outlet that is utilized expressly for the benefit of the institution that engineered that network.  As such, it is also only as good as the standards established by that firm,” says Henri Atamian, Executive Vice-President of UFT Commercial Finance.  “We set out to build a universal, globally-scaled network that tethers together our Qualified Participants under common master terms and conditions that can be applied by each Lender to better support their customers when acting as credit originators and diversify their credit portfolios when acting as credit participants.  As Network Manager, it is our job to aid them in their aggregation efforts and to assure quality control of originated credits.”  

The UFT Commercial Finance web site was designed by disEntropy, Inc., located in Iowa City, Iowa.  “We integrated a secure document manager, content management system, secure login areas, and credit forms necessary for better management of potential borrowers and lenders.  The portal enables UFT Commercial Finance to manage and make available to its clients and other qualified parties, a high volume of forms, agreements and other documentation in a secure, real-time, on-demand basis.  The site includes a Knowledge Center, news and information pages, account executive listings, and account tools targeted for the particular user’s needs.” said Chad Scott, President of disEntropy.  “Due to the sensitive nature of the UFT Commercial Finance business model and operations, we built the site such that access beyond the landing page for the website is permitted only by input of a login and password.”  

Users must be granted a login to access the UFT Commercial Finance’s web site that will be assigned based upon the role of that User when dealing with UFT Commercial Finance.  To apply for a login, send an e-mail to contactus@uftcf.com or call (847) 283-7203 to obtain a Login Request Form.  

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UFT Commercial Finance is an alternative credit solutions company and the Network Manager of the Master Participating Lender Network.  It is a privately held company with offices in Chicago, Illinois and Scottsdale, AZ. Learn more about UFT Commercial Finance at www.uftcf.com.

United Financial Technologies, a designer and developer of financial instruments and solutions, is a privately held company headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. Learn more about UFT at www.unitedft.com.  

disEntropy is an Internet technology development firm located in Iowa City, Iowa.  For more information visit www.disentropy.com.

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