Credit Underwriting

Managing commercial loans requires constant vigilance. Conditions change and regular review is essential to maintaining credit quality. Balmain’s broad reach and early access to client and portfolio data are a major advantage in this ongoing process.

Over the past five years, Balmain’s credit underwriting team have approved and settled over $A2 billion of commercial loan transactions in Australia and New Zealand. The team of highly experienced credit specialists is supported by the national reach of our origination network and by the Balmain group’s broad market ‘radar’ which comprises detailed local knowledge of both markets and borrowers. Balmain has structured the relationship between origination and credit to ensure that credit has access to all client data and communications. Indeed the ability of the credit team to directly access the originator/borrower relationship is a unique competitive advantage. Balmain’s credit process is focused on structuring facilities to mitigate risk, with each stage of the credit process requiring workshop, review and signoff to ensure consistency of approach and maximum knowledge transfer. As well as overseeing over $A1.2 billion of internal balance sheet and funds management programs, the credit team has advised a range of external clients on portfolio purchases, credit profiling and credit policy design.