Nacogdoches, TX – May 8, 2026 – Portfolio Watch, a provider of advanced portfolio monitoring and credit risk management solutions for commercial lenders, today announced that it has become an Ally Member of the Opportunity Finance Network (OFN), the nation’s leading network of Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFIs).

Through this partnership, Portfolio Watch will support OFN’s mission to expand access to responsible, affordable financing in underserved communities by making its tools available to OFN members to enhance commercial loan portfolio oversight and early credit risk detection.

OFN members – ranging from community loan funds to mission-driven lenders – play a critical role in financing small businesses, affordable housing, and community infrastructure projects that traditional capital markets often overlook. Their success depends not only on deploying capital effectively, but also on maintaining strong, resilient portfolios that can withstand economic uncertainty.

“Joining OFN reflects our commitment to support lenders who are driving meaningful economic impact,” said Walt Postlewait, CEO at Portfolio Watch. “OFN members are on the front lines of community development. By strengthening credit risk management practices, we help ensure these organizations can continue to lend sustainably and scale their impact over time.”

Portfolio Watch’s platform enables lenders to:

• Continuously monitor portfolio health across diverse loan assets

• Reduce cost and burden on CDFI lending teams

• Identify early warning signals of borrower distress

• Improve transparency for stakeholders, including investors and boards

Strong credit risk management is particularly important in today’s environment, where uncertain interest rates, market volatility, and uneven economic recovery can disproportionately affect small businesses and underserved borrowers. By adopting proactive portfolio monitoring practices, CDFIs can better anticipate challenges, mitigate losses, and preserve capital for future lending.

“Healthy portfolios enable continuous lending,” added Postlewait. “When lenders can see risk clearly and act early, they create more stability for their organizations and more opportunity for the communities they serve.”

Portfolio Watch looks forward to collaborating with OFN and its members to advance best practices in commercial credit risk management and support the continued growth of the community finance sector.

About Portfolio Watch

Portfolio Watch provides portfolio monitoring and credit risk management solutions tailored to

commercial lenders, private credit funds, and community finance institutions. Its platform

delivers actionable insights that help organizations proactively manage risk, improve

performance, and scale lending operations with confidence.

About Opportunity Finance Network (OFN)

Opportunity Finance Network (OFN) is the nation's leading network and intermediary focused on community development investment, managing more than $1 billion in total assets and a membership of nearly 500 community development financial institutions (CDFIs), which includes community development loan funds, credit unions, green banks, banks, minority depository institutions, and venture capital funds. Our network of CDFIs works to ensure communities left behind by mainstream finance have access to affordable, responsible financial products and services, with a deep focus on serving rural, urban, and Native communities across the United States. OFN is a trusted investment partner to the public, private, and philanthropic sectors – foundations, corporations, banks, government agencies, and others – and, for more than 40 years, has helped partners invest in communities to catalyze change and create economic opportunities for all.

Since its founding in 1986, OFN members have originated $136 billion in cumulative financing, helping to create or maintain nearly 3.8 million jobs, start or expand more than 1.2 million businesses and microenterprises, and support the development or rehabilitation of more than 3 million housing units and more than 16,000 community facility projects.