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The American Factoring Association (AFA) elected Hailey Benton-Thomas as its new board president. Benton-Thomas succeeds Cole Harmonson and has previously served as AFA vice president as well as chair of the AFA’s government affairs committee. Since 2014, Hailey Benton-Thomas has...

Capstone Partners, a middle market investment banking firm, released its 2026 Middle Market Business Owners Survey Report, with insights from privately-owned companies across the U.S. This report combines Capstone’s middle market knowledge with proprietary data obtained from 400 participating owners...

Cedar Croft Consulting, a turnaround management and financial advisory firm serving middle-market companies across North America, earned the Turnaround Management Association’s (TMA) 2026 Small Company Turnaround/Transaction of the Year award for its work with Ted’s Hot Dogs. Patrick Walsh, president...

Encina Commercial Finance (ECF) provided $125 million of first-out financing as part of a $300 million senior secured unitranche supporting National CineMedia’s acquisition of Captivate. The financing was provided in partnership with Crestline Direct Finance, which led the transaction and...

Lighthouse Financial completed a $5 million credit facility to a Pennsylvania-based distributor of abrasive blasting equipment and supplies. Following a change in ownership in 2021, the company incurred losses but completed several strategic initiatives to return to profitability, including closing...

Mountain Ridge Capital (MRC), an asset-based commercial finance company, promoted Blake Brown to managing director of underwriting for both MRC and Alpine Ridge Funding. Brown joined Mountain Ridge Capital as vice president of underwriting in 2025, after holding a senior...

F2, an agentic operating system for global credit, formed a strategic partnership with Golub Capital, a private credit manager with more than $90 billion of capital under management as of July 1, 2026. As part of the partnership, Golub Capital...

Gateway Trade Funding, a provider of purchase order finance and stretch finance solutions, closed a $1.5 million purchase order finance facility for a California-based food importer that brings food brands from the United Kingdom to retailers across the United States....

PlainsCapital Bank added Dick Sadka as senior vice president, senior relationship manager, serving commercial banking clients throughout the Houston market. He will be based at PlainsCapital’s Richmond Avenue banking center. “We are excited to welcome Dick to the PlainsCapital team,”...

Deloitte’s latest CFO Signals report, a quarterly survey of North America’s leading chief financial officers, finds that CFO confidence rebounded this quarter even as executives remain measured in their assessment of the broader economy. Against a challenging macroeconomic backdrop, the...