At Starfield & Smith, we are pleased to announce a new internal initiative dedicated to one of the Firm’s most quietly admired professional skills: checklist design. For years,…
Artificial intelligence is already helping commercial lenders streamline intake, review financial information, detect fraud, summarize documents, and speed routine communications. For SBA lending teams, those efficiencies are attractive,…
At Starfield & Smith, we see one theme every year: lenders who take SBA compliance seriously keep their 7(a) guaranties intact. Those who don’t often find themselves on…
The SBA’s PARRiS protocol may not be new, but it continues to play a critical role in how SBA evaluates 7(a) lenders. Designed to help the Agency assess…
“Sooner or later, everything old is new again.” -Stephen King, The Colorado Kid On April 22, 2025, SBA issued Information Notice 5000-866746 announcing the issuance of the…
In the American criminal justice system, defendants benefit from a presumption of innocence—a principle rooted in the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments and cemented in public consciousness through media…
