Bonside, a technology company that provides financial underwriting and funding to brick-and-mortar businesses, has formed a strategic partnership with Kimco Realty and Nuveen Real Estate. As part of this partnership, both firms made equity investments in Bonside and will be among the first users of the company's new proprietary underwriting product, the Bonside Scorecard, designed to help commercial landlords more efficiently assess the creditworthiness and risk of new and existing non-credit retail tenants.
The Bonside Scorecard brings much-needed standardization to how commercial landlords evaluate the financial and operational health of retail tenants. Built on the same underwriting process that drives Bonside's own investment decisions, and 37 transactions to date, the tool enables landlords to quickly and effectively assess tenant performance via accounting software data.
Bonside aims to analyze, standardize and capitalize the rise of non-credit retail. By emphasi
