Capital One Bank’s Commercial and Specialty Lending business announced a significant uptick in demand for specialty finance products among its commercial banking customers. Recent additions to the firm’s healthcare credit, healthcare real estate, healthcare sponsor finance, security and defense, technology, lender finance and vacation ownership teams, along with strong existing platforms has driven credit interest among new and existing commercial customers.

“In the first quarter of 2012, loan activity in our Commercial and Specialty Finance segment increased due to a solid supply of capital on hand, rising consumer confidence and the addition of experienced talent across our multiple industry-specific groups,” said Mike Slocum, president of Capital One Commercial Bank. “In recent months, we have added seven new banking teams to our already strong set of specialty lending professionals, which has allowed us to deepen our focus on customer relationships and provide best in class service to help our customers meet their growth needs.”

These new industry-specific teams are led by Keith Reuben and Michael Szwajkowski and complement Capital One Bank’s existing nationally focused specialty banking teams, including Capital One