From Sub-Lines to NAV Lending: Supporting a Shifting Fund Finance Landscape

By: Brendan Cahill

December 1, 2025

The fund finance market continues to evolve as private capital grows in scale and complexity. Subscription credit facilities remain a critical liquidity tool for private credit and private equity funds, helping managers bridge capital calls, support portfolio company needs, and manage cash flow more efficiently. At the same time, NAV-based lending has gained momentum as firms seek additional flexibility in maturing funds, secondary transactions, and more diversified portfolios.

These shifts are increasing the demands on fund finance professionals. Lenders and fund managers must monitor borrowing bases with greater frequency, respond to more dynamic investor profiles, and manage workflows that span front office structuring, credit review, operations, and ongoing risk oversight. Manual spreadsheets and disconnected systems make this harder, increasing the risk of inconsistencies, blind spots, and delayed responses to changing portfolio conditions.

Allvue has long supported fund finance teams with a purpose-built solution designed to bring structure, visibility, and control to subscription line and NAV-based lending workflows. We’ve been proud to partner with leading institutions in the space to help front office, credit, and operations teams better manage borrowing bases, assess exposure, and adapt to evolving portfolio strategies.

Now, based on market direction and client feedback, our dedicated team has expanded our solution to align more directly with how fund finance teams work today, while reducing time spent on tasks that don’t add value.

What’s New: A More Streamlined, Insights-Driven Experience

The enhanced user experience is designed to help fund finance teams across the front office, middle office, credit, and risk functions more easily surface the subscription line and NAV-based information they need, when and how they need it.

The new design aligns with how teams and system users actually work, whether they’re structuring a new facility, managing an existing borrowing base, or preparing reporting for internal committees and external stakeholders.

Key updates include:

  • Improved visibility across portfolios, enabling users to assess exposure and performance at both the facility and investor level
  • Historical borrowing base and exposure views, including point-in-time reporting and comparison between dates to highlight material changes and trends
  • More intuitive, persona-based navigation, with workflow-aligned screens that reduce context switching and increase efficiency
  • Flexible data exploration, allowing users to pivot from investor to facility to pipeline data without losing analytical context
  • Built-in policy and control thresholds, providing proactive alerts and guardrails to help avoid covenant, eligibility, or concentration breaches
  • Enhanced reporting and collaboration capabilities to support internal workflows, approval cycles, audit readiness, and cross-functional communication

As fund finance activity expands across fund strategies and regions, institutions need technology that not only centralizes data but also supports repeatable, defendable processes. The ability to analyze exposure in real time, compare borrowing base movements across dates, and standardize reporting is now a differentiator for both lenders and fund sponsors.

Together, these updates provide fund finance teams with a stronger starting point to unlock value quickly, and a platform that supports long-term growth, control, and alignment.

The Role of Fund Finance in the Credit Ecosystem

Fund Finance represents a crucial connection point across credit, portfolio management, and treasury activities. Allvue’s Fund Finance solution supports sub-line and NAV lending workflows as part of a broader credit platform that includes portfolio, research, and trade management, compliance, accounting, data intelligence, and agentic AI.

This enables lenders and fund managers to maintain alignment across the investment lifecycle, from underwriting and capital deployment to monitoring and portfolio optimization.

Our recent recognition as a Category Leader in the 2025 Chartis Credit Portfolio Management Solutions Quadrant reflects our continued commitment to providing solutions that enhance transparency, efficiency, connection, and decision-making across global credit markets.

To learn more or see the enhanced solution in action, contact us today or visit our Fund Finance page.

More About The Author

Brendan Cahill

Brendan is Allvue’s Product Manager for Fund Finance, where he leads product strategy, roadmap execution, and market alignment for Allvue’s fund finance and compliance solutions. He brings deep experience across product management, capital markets workflows, and data and analytics platforms, with prior roles at Bloomberg, Thomson Reuters (now Refinitiv), and Intralinks. Brendan has also worked in leveraged finance and investment banking at CIBC World Markets and Deutsche Bank. He holds an MBA from Columbia Business School and a BSBA from Boston University.

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