One Chart to Commercial Finance Data: Track Factoring, Equipment Finance & ABL

Our new commercial finance data tracker puts factoring volume, equipment finance originations, and asset-based lending activity on one interactive chart, with data through Q1 2026. It refreshes as SFNet, ELFA, and LSEG publish, so checking one chart replaces chasing three survey calendars.

The data on the secured side of commercial finance is real, but it's scattered. Factoring volume lives in SFNet's surveys. Equipment finance originations live in ELFA's monthly index. Syndicated ABL lives in LSEG's tables. Each publishes on its own schedule, and unless tracking survey releases is your actual job, you catch the numbers weeks late or not at all.

So we put them in one place. The tracker below.

How to use it

Four views, one click apart. Growth overview indexes all three segments to 2024 so you can compare trajectories on one scale, that's where you see factoring's 16.6% surge against equipment finance holding near its all-time record. The Factoring, Equipment finance, and ABL tabs go one level deeper into each segment's own numbers, in its own native metric.

Hover anything for the detail. Figures we derived from disclosed growth rates are marked ◆ so you always know what's stated versus calculated, and the three segments are never summed, because they measure different things. Each stat carries the date its source published, so you know exactly how fresh every number is.

Why bother

Because this is the market context for every conversation you're having. A merchant weighing your working capital offer against a factoring line. A funder deciding whether equipment demand justifies a new product. A broker who wants to sound like they read the surveys without reading the surveys. The trends in this chart, banks tightening, non-banks taking share, secured capital filling the gap, are the same forces moving your corner of the industry. Watching them here is the cheapest edge available.

Commercial finance data stays current

The tracker updates on the industry's release calendar: ELFA's index monthly, SFNet's ABL data quarterly, and the next major refresh lands with ELFA's annual survey in August 2026, we'll update this the week it drops. Bookmark the post, or subscribe to The Funding Curve and we'll tell you when the numbers move.