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JPalmer Collective (JPC), an asset-based lending firm focused on funding high-growth, women-led, and natural products companies, announced the appointment of Tom Giordano as account executive. Giordano joins JPC as the firm continues to expand its team of industry veterans and strengthen...

Franklin Capital, a provider of accounts receivable, purchase order and stretch financing solutions, hired Meghan Knott as vice president of legal documentation. Knott brings more than a decade of experience in secured transactions, collateral analysis, underwriting due diligence and risk...

Capital One released its Middle Market Strategic Investments report, which explores how more than 1,000 U.S. middle market companies (with total annual revenue of $20 million to $2 billion) are responding to a frequently shifting economic landscape and tailoring their...

B. Riley Securities served as bookrunner on CION Investment’s underwritten public offering of $125 million aggregate principal amount of unsecured notes due 2031. CION has granted the underwriters a 30-day overallotment option to purchase up to an additional $18.75 million...

Gateway Trade Funding closed a $1.2 million purchase order (PO) financing facility for a company supplying security products. The transaction was referred to Gateway by a factoring partner and structured to support the company’s ability to fulfill large-scale purchase orders...

AFC has committed $29 million to a $60 million senior secured term loan. The proceeds from the credit facility, including $19.6 million funded by AFC at close, will be used to finance the acquisition of a healthcare benefits platform. “We are...

Aircastle extended the maturity of its $200 million unsecured revolving credit facility with Mizuho Marubeni Leasing Americas to January 2029. In addition, the company also extended the maturity of its $300 million unsecured revolving credit facility with Mizuho Bank to...

Bidding opens on Feb. 11 in a major Tiger Group biopharma-industry auction of new and late-model GMP Manufacturing and Quality Control Laboratory equipment as well as brand-new support inventory — assets with an original at-cost value exceeding $5 million. Closing...

Frank B. Holding, chairman and CEO of First Citizens Bank & Trust, has been appointed to the Federal Reserve Board of Governors’ Federal Advisory Council (FAC) for 2026. Holding will represent the Fifth District on behalf of the Federal Reserve...

Squire Patton Boggs has appointed William Liu as a partner in London, joining the firm’s global financial services practice group from K&L Gates. Liu’s appointment follows on from the recent hire of his former colleague Heather E. Rees, also partner...