Open CMBS
Our mission is to promote an open
and transparent CMBS market.

About Us

Backshop was incorporated in 2000 by real estate people, and it has since become the premier commercial loan origination software for participants in the Commercial Mortgage Backed Securities market.

Our major "break-through" was Web-based analytical tools that underwriters could use to run property and debt cash flows for all different types of commercial property. Lenders that implement Backshop remove most, if not all, Excel-based source documents, and they have 100% of their business normalized in a Web-accessed database. When that happens, efficiencies and satisfaction reign - a beautiful thing.

CMBS.com is using the Backshop engine, coupled with CMBS data acquired through acquisition and updated by the Trustees, to provide open, standardized underwriting tools and data for all participants in the CMBS market.

CMBS.com and Backshop are based in beautiful Sausalito, CA, where our staff enjoys the harbor and San Francisco Bay.

Jim Flaherty Jim Flaherty
President & CEO

Jim Flaherty is CEO of CMBS.com and the creator of the Backshop loan origination system. He is a trained credit professional with experience installing enterprise underwriting systems for commercial real estate lenders, rating agencies and investors. During his 20-year career, Mr. Flaherty has founded two companies that have successfully streamlined the origination process for the nation's leading commercial real estate lenders.
Read more about The history of Backshop and CMBS.com on Flaherty's CMBS 2.0 Blog.