Membership marketplace · Est. for practitioners
Where credit unions and brokers meet on loan participations.
MBL Council is a members-only marketplace and professional community built around one problem: participation deals are still traded through scattered email threads, spreadsheets and personal networks. We put the opportunities, the underwriting detail and the people who understand them in one disciplined place.
The Participation Board, member messaging and the community are open to signed-in members with an active membership.
What membership opens
- The Participation Board — live buy and sell interest across the membership
- Direct messaging with the organization behind any listing
- Your own listings, saved searches and saved pools
- Membership directory, networking summaries and the resource library
Why MBL Council exists
Member business lending is a relationship business with a distribution problem.
Credit unions with capacity cannot easily find quality participations. Credit unions with concentration need reliable buyers. Brokers with paper spend their days re-explaining the same pool to twenty institutions. MBL Council was formed by practitioners to fix that with structure rather than more phone calls.
One standard for every pool
Every listing carries the same eight underwriting metrics — yield, price, servicing, WA life, geography, balance, historical and expected loss — so pools are comparable at a glance.
A vetted membership
Only approved credit unions and broker organizations can list or transact. Brokers see only their own listings; the wider board belongs to the membership.
A community, not a listings site
Networking call summaries, workshops and a practitioner library sit alongside the marketplace, because the deal is downstream of the relationship.
The CU Loan Exchange
A dedicated marketplace for Credit Unions and Brokers to list, discover, and connect around participation opportunities.
Who it is for
Two sides of the same market, each with their own workspace.
Credit Unions
Buy capacity, sell concentration, learn from peers.
- Browse and filter the full Participation Board across every member and broker
- List your own participations to buy or to sell
- Save listings and save searches that persist across sessions
- Message the organization behind any listing directly
- MBL Council tier adds the directory, networking summaries and workshop discounts
Brokers
Publish your paper once, to an audience that transacts.
- Unlimited participation listings for your organization
- Bulk CSV import with validation for large books
- A dedicated broker dashboard for your own listings only
- Team management so colleagues work under one organization membership
- Messaging tied to the opportunities you have listed
The marketplace
The Participation Board
A single, searchable board of live participation opportunities from every member organization — available and wanted, across auto, CRE, multi-family, construction, agriculture, land and unsecured programs. Filter by yield, geography and pool balance, group by broker or pool type, and compare pools on identical terms.
Search and filter
Full-text search plus yield, geography, side and balance filters.
Eight metrics per pool
Every listing carries the same underwriting fields.
Direct messaging
Contact the listing organization from the listing itself.
Member gated
Sign in as a member to browse the board, contact posters and list pools.
How it works
Four steps from application to deal.
- 01
Apply
Submit your organization for review as a credit union or a broker.
- 02
Choose a membership
Select the tier that matches how you intend to use the market.
- 03
Complete onboarding
Profile, organization details and subscription — then your workspace unlocks.
- 04
List and transact
Publish participations, browse the board and message counterparties.
The community
Workshops, networking calls and a practitioner library.
Membership is more than access to a board. Members meet on recurring networking calls, attend working sessions on underwriting and portfolio construction, and read material written by people who actually run these programs.
Upcoming events
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From the library
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Membership
What each membership provides.
Credit unions choose between exchange-only access and full Council membership. Brokers have a single organization-wide plan.
For credit unions
For brokers
Broker
Unlimited listings, bulk import, a dedicated broker workspace and team seats under one organization membership.
Contact CU Exchange
Broker membership is arranged directly with our team, who will send you a private registration link.
Not sure which tier fits?
Compare every plan side by side, including what stays locked at each level, on the membership page.
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Join the credit unions and brokers already trading here.
Apply in a few minutes. Once your organization is approved and your membership is active, your workspace, the board and the community open immediately.