The opportunityA persistent financing gap. A structural entry point.
Specialist lenders with strong underwriting and active origination pipelines are systematically underserved by capital. Institutional funds are too large to engage them; banks cannot move at originator speed. Salt Markets is purpose-built to fill that gap.
Institutional credit funds
Require $50M+ deployment sizes. Specialist lenders operating at $1M to $25M are too small to engage.
Too big to deploy
Banks
Constrained by regulatory capital requirements and slow credit approval. Cannot move at originator speed.
Too slow to underwrite
Specialist lenders
Strong underwriting track records and origination pipelines, with limited balance-sheet capacity to scale.
Capacity-constrained
Salt Markets
Purpose-built wholesale senior facility for institutional-quality originators in the $1M to $25M gap.
Senior-secured, sized to fit
The result: a persistent financing gap for high-quality originators, and an attractive entry point for senior lenders.