The Lending Brief Podcast
The Lending Brief Podcast (brought to you by the Center for USA Lending and sponsored by Allocore) shares stories of innovation, challenge, and impact among federal lending programs. Each episode features a lively interview with key figures on the cutting edge of the field, including current and former government leaders, industry experts, and other thought leaders working to modernize federal credit programs.Through these conversations, the Lending Brief explores how agencies manage risk, scale operations, adopt new technologies, and deliver better outcomes for borrowers and taxpayers, translating complex policy and operational issues into practical insights for anyone working in or...
From Field Offices to $220B: Inside USDA’s Lending Empire
In this episode of The Center for USA Lending’s The Lending Brief, sponsored by Allocore, we sit down with longtime USDA leader Roger Glendenning for a sweeping look at one of the federal government’s largest and most complex lending portfolios. Drawing on a 36-year career spanning field offices to the C-suite, Roger walks us through the evolution of rural development programs, from knocking on doors to collect loan payments to managing a $220 billion portfolio serving over a million borrowers.
He shares insights on who these programs serve, from first-time homebuyers to rural utilities, and how fede...
Crisis Lending at Scale: An Inside look at the SBA's Pandemic Response
In this episode of The Center for USA Lending's The Lending Brief, sponsored by Allocore, we're joined by two veterans of the Small Business Administration, Kate Aaby, former CFO, and Steve Kucharski, former CIO, for a candid look at what it actually took to run the Paycheck Protection Program. From processing 13 years' worth of loans in 13 days to building fraud controls on the fly, Kate and Steve walk us through the technology decisions, organizational challenges, and hard lessons learned during one of the most extraordinary moments in federal lending history. They also discuss how the infrastructure built during the p...
The Real Bank of America: Doug Criscitello on the Past, Present, and Future of Federal Lending
In this episode of The Center for USA Lending's The Lending Brief, sponsored by Allocore, Robert Shea welcomes Doug Criscitello in his new role as Executive Director of the Center and co-host of the podcast (sorry, Adam).
Drawing on experience at OMB and CBO, Doug traces the evolution of federal credit from New Deal housing programs to the 2008 financial crisis and the trillion-dollar pandemic response, and explains why these programs have become one of the federal government’s most powerful and least understood economic tools.
They explore the counter-cyclical role of federal lending, the tradeoffs be...
