Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance, Inc. Debt Disclosure

Note 7 – Secured Debt Arrangements, Net

We utilize secured debt arrangements to finance the origination activity in our loan portfolio. Our secured debt arrangements are comprised of secured credit facilities, a private securitization, and a revolving credit facility.

During the year ended December 31, 2025, we entered into two new secured credit facilities with Morgan Stanley and new secured credit facilities with Atlas ("Atlas Facility - GBP, EUR," together with Atlas Facility - USD, "Atlas Facilities") and Barclays, which collectively provide $1.4 billion of additional borrowing capacity. Furthermore, we have fully repaid all borrowings outstanding under the HSBC, MUFG Securities and Churchill facilities.

Terms of our secured credit facilities are designed to keep each lender's credit exposure generally constant as a percentage of the underlying value of the assets pledged as security to the facility. If the credit of the underlying collateral value decreases, the amount of leverage to us may be reduced. As of December 31, 2025 and December 31, 2024, the weighted-average haircut under our secured debt arrangements was approximately 27.1% and 31.4%, respectively. Our secured credit facilities do not contain capital markets-based mark-to-market provisions.

Revolving Credit Facility

We are party to a revolving credit facility (the "Revolving Credit Facility") administered by Bank of America, N.A. The Revolving Credit Facility permits borrowings secured by qualifying commercial mortgage loans and real property owned assets. During the third quarter of 2025, we amended and restated the facility to extend the maturity date from March 2026 to August 2028 and increased the borrowing capacity from $160.0 million to $275.0 million with a syndicate of five lenders. In connection with the amendment and restatement, the Company incurred $2.7 million of deferred financing costs, including issuance and legal related costs. The Revolving Credit Facility is also subject to certain financial covenants, which are discussed below (see "Debt Covenants").

As of both December 31, 2025 and December 31, 2024, we had no outstanding balance on the Revolving Credit Facility.

During the years ended December 31, 2025, 2024 and 2023, we recorded $400.0 thousand, $281.4 thousand, and $282.8 thousand of unused fees, respectively. During the years ended December 31, 2025, 2024 and 2023, we recorded $622.0 thousand, $2.4 million, and $168.3 thousand of contractual interest expense, respectively.

Barclays Private Securitization

We are party to a private securitization with Barclays Bank plc ("Barclays") (such securitization, the "Barclays Private Securitization"). Commercial mortgage loans currently financed under the Barclays Securitization are denominated in GBP, EUR, and SEK.

The Barclays Private Securitization does not include daily margining provisions and grants us significant discretion to modify certain terms of the underlying collateral including waiving certain loan-level covenant breaches and deferring or waiving of debt service payments for up to 18 months. The securitization includes loan-to-value based covenants with deleveraging requirements that are based on significant declines in the value of the collateral as determined by an annual third-party (engaged by us) appraisal process tied to the provisions of the underlying loan agreements. We believe this provides us with both cushion and predictability to avoid sudden unexpected outcomes and material repayment requirements.

The table above reflects the fully extended maturity date of the facility and assumes facilities with an "evergreen" feature continue to extend through the fully-extended maturity of the underlying asset and assumes underlying loans are extended with consent of financing providers.

Debt Covenants

The guarantees related to our secured debt arrangements contain the following financial covenants: (i) tangible net worth must be greater than $1.25 billion plus 75% of the net cash proceeds of any equity issuance after March 31, 2017 (or $1.42 billion

plus 75% of the net cash proceeds of any equity issuance after June 30, 2025 with respect to the Revolving Credit Facility); (ii) our ratio of total indebtedness to total assets shall not exceed 83.33% (81.82% for the Revolving Credit Facility) and (iii) our liquidity cannot be less than an amount equal to the greater of 5.0% of total recourse indebtedness or $30.0 million. Under these covenants, our General CECL Allowance is added back to our tangible net worth calculation and total assets and total indebtedness are subject to certain adjustments. The Revolving Credit Facility contains an additional financial covenant to maintain a minimum interest coverage ratio of not less than 1.3:1.

Effective as of June 30, 2025, we amended our financial covenants from a maximum ratio of total indebtedness to tangible net worth of 4.0:1.0 to a ratio of total indebtedness to total assets not to exceed 83.33% (81.82% for our Revolving Credit Facility). We were in compliance with our covenants for the periods ended December 31, 2025 and December 31, 2024.

The impact of macroeconomic conditions on the commercial real estate markets and global capital markets, including increased interest rates, foreign currency fluctuations, changes to fiscal and monetary policy, slower economic growth or recession, labor shortages, and recent distress in the banking sector, may make it more difficult to meet or satisfy our debt covenants in the future.

Note 8 – Senior Secured Term Loans, Net

In June 2025, we entered into a $750.0 million senior secured term loan facility (the "2030 Term Loan") to refinance and replace our previously outstanding 2026 Term Loan and 2028 Term Loans (each as defined and described below). The 2030 Term Loan matures in June 2030 and bears interest at a rate of SOFR plus 3.25%. The 2030 Term Loan was issued at a price of 99.3% and is amortizing with repayments of 0.25% of the total committed principal per quarter. Inclusive of the discount and deferred financing costs, the total cost of the 2030 Term Loan was SOFR+3.91% as of December 31, 2025. During the year ended December 31, 2025, we repaid $3.8 million of principal related to the 2030 Term Loan. The 2030 Term Loan contains restrictions relating to liens, asset sales, indebtedness, and investments in non-wholly owned entities. The refinancing was accounted for as a continuation of the existing loans in accordance with ASC Topic 470 "Debt".

Prior to refinancing in June 2025, we held a $471.3 million senior secured term loan (the "2026 Term Loan") that bore interest at SOFR plus 2.86% and a $288.0 million senior secured term loan (the "2028 Term Loan," collectively with the 2026 Term Loan, the "2026 and 2028 Term Loans") that bore interest at SOFR (with a floor of 0.50%) plus 3.61%. The 2026 and 2028 Term Loans contained restrictions relating to liens, asset sales, indebtedness, and investments in non-wholly owned entities and were issued at a price of 99.5% and 99.0%, respectively.

Covenants

The 2030 Term Loan contains a financial covenant that our recourse indebtedness shall not exceed 83.3% of our total assets (subject to certain adjustments). As of December 31, 2025, we were in compliance with this covenant.

The financial covenants of the 2026 and 2028 Term Loans included the requirement that we maintain: (i) a maximum ratio of total recourse debt to tangible net worth of 4:1; and (ii) a ratio of total unencumbered assets to total pari-passu indebtedness of at least 2.50:1. We were in compliance with the covenants under the 2026 and 2028 Term Loans at December 31, 2024.