Hilco Redevelopment Partners (HRP) broke ground today on the first phase of vertical construction on The Bellwether District’s 1,300-acre South Philadelphia site.

Solifi, a global fintech software partner for secured finance, received an accolade at the 9th annual Motor Finance Europe Awards in the Digital Innovation of the Year (Technology Company), Retail Solutions/Vehicle Management category. The Awards, which took place in Vienna on 19 October, celebrate organisations across the European automotive finance industry for their expertise in various categories.

Creditly Corp., dba Credit Genie, a leading digital personal finance platform that has served more than one million Americans, announced today the successful completion of an additional funding round, securing $10 million in capital, bringing its total financing to $21 million.

UBS today announced that a four-person advisor team, The Charles Drew Group, has joined the firm in Washington, D.C. The team, which manages $460 million in client assets, is led by Managing Director and Financial Advisor Charles Drew, and also includes Financial Advisors Bennett Kavlick, Matthew Tomczuk and Client Service Associate Justin Hatch.

Macquarie Capital, the corporate advisory, capital markets and principal investing arm of Macquarie Group, today announced it has joined a US Government initiative to improve energy efficiency, emissions and energy resilience across the healthcare sector, with a focus on safety-net providers in economically disadvantaged communities. Macquarie Capital has committed to support up to $US300 million in renewable energy project developments for hospitals and hospital systems designated as key priorities under the initiative.

BB Energy, a leading global independent energy trading company, has successfully renewed and expanded its senior secured borrowing base credit facility (the 'Facility') in the Americas. The Facility finances the company's working capital needs for inventory and receivables in the region.

The Federal Reserve Board on Friday launched a data collection to gather more information from the banks affected by the large bank capital proposal it announced earlier this year. When the proposal was announced, the Board indicated that it would undertake this supplemental data collection.

Crescent Capital Group LP, a leading alternative credit investment firm, announced today that it has hired Felipe Esguerra as Managing Director, Head of Eastern U.S. Region in the Investor Solutions Group. Based out of Crescent’s New York office, Mr. Esguerra is responsible for marketing Crescent Capital’s strategies to institutional investors including corporate and public pension plans, endowments, foundations, healthcare systems and family offices across the Eastern U.S.

Santander Bank, N.A. (“Santander” or “the Bank”) recently unified its commercial & industrial business and its commercial real estate & vehicle financing business into one Commercial Bank in the United States under the leadership of Michael Lee. Mike joined Santander in 2009, and most recently served as Managing Director and Head of Commercial Real Estate & Vehicle Finance. He will continue to report to Tim Wennes, Santander US CEO and Country Head, and Santander Bank President and CEO.

PacWest Bancorp (“PacWest”) (Nasdaq: PACW) today announced that the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System granted its approval of the previously announced combination of PacWest and Banc of California, Inc. (“Banc of California”) and their respective bank subsidiaries, Pacific Western Bank and Banc of California, N.A.

Citizens Financial Group, Inc. (NYSE: CFG) today announced the national launch of Citizens Private Bank, a significant milestone in Citizens’ long-term strategy to accelerate growth in Wealth Management, improve capabilities in the high-net-worth segment and expand in key markets.

Spring Oaks Capital, LLC is pleased to announce the closing of a new credit facility, as well as a large capital raise to support the growth of its technology-focused consumer debt investing and collections platform. The $150 million senior secured revolving credit facility is provided by funds managed by Värde Partners and UBS O’Connor.

CohnReznick LLP, one of the leading advisory, assurance, and tax firms in the United States, today announced that Dan Meers has joined the firm as a Managing Director in its Technology+ practice. Meers will assume the role of data and analytics leader for the practice, initially focusing on delivering technology and data solutions to CohnReznick clients in the federal government/public sector and financial services industries.

First Citizens Bank today announced that its CIT Commercial Services subsidiary, a national leader in factoring, credit protection and accounts receivable management solutions, recently closed three major client financing transactions.

The new five-year revolving credit facility with Fifth Third Bank, National Association ("Fifth Third"), provides for revolving commitments of up to $75 million, subject to a borrowing base calculation prepared monthly. The new five-year term loan agreement with Wexford Capital LP ("Wexford"), an affiliate of Mammoth, provides for term commitments of $45 million.

AVITA Medical, Inc. entered into a Credit Agreement, by and between the Company, as borrower, and an affiliate of OrbiMed as the lender and administrative agent . The Credit Agreement provides for a five-year senior secured credit facility in an aggregate principal amount of up to $90 million, of which (i) $40 million was made available on the Closing Date,

Pantheon International PLC announced that it has agreed a new £500 million equivalent multi-tranche, multi-currency revolving credit facility agreement (the "Loan Facility"), which replaces the existing £500 million equivalent credit facility and Credit Suisse AG London Branch as a Lender.

Haversine Funding, a premier lender finance platform in the specialty finance space, proudly announces its newest endeavor - the limited series podcast, OnDeck with Haversine. Available on Spotify, YouTube, Apple, Google Podcasts, and LinkedIn, audiences can anticipate monthly episodes into early 2024.

Global law firm Clifford Chance has hired corporate M&A partner Cephas Sekhar in its Houston office. Sekhar's appointment sees the Houston team grow to 11 partners following its opening in June, which marked the expansion of the firm's global Energy & Infrastructure team in the US.

New flagship research report, BMO Blue Book, features regional economic analysis from BMO experts and an outlook for the U.S. economy.