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In today’s secured finance environment, technical expertise alone is no longer enough to prepare professionals for leadership roles. Across the industry, many firms face the same challenge: strong individual contributors are promoted into management positions without the leadership training necessary to succeed.
Recognizing this growing gap, the Secured Finance Network (SFNet) has developed a leadership development program specifically designed for professionals in secured finance. Led by leadership development expert Ann Butera, president, The Whole Person Project, Inc., the program equips emerging leaders with practical tools, frameworks, and peer support that many companies—especially mid-size and smaller firms—no longer have the resources to provide internally.
The factoring industry entered 2026 with a familiar dynamic, but one that feels increasingly consequential: growth driven not by economic strength, but by constraint elsewhere in the credit system. The Secured Finance Network’s 2025 Year-End Factoring Survey shows an industry that is expanding across nearly every core metric—volume, utilization, revenue, and client demand—even as the broader economy slows and traditional lending channels become more selective.
Republic Business Credit announced the appointment of Robert Meyers as Chief Executive Officer. Meyers, who has served as the company’s President and Chief Commercial Officer for the past decade, succeeds co-founder Stewart Chesters, who will assume the role of President and serve as Interim Chief Credit Officer.
Oil, Private Credit Stress, and a Renewed Opportunity for Secured Finance
As the secured finance industry moves through 2026, lenders are operating in an environment shaped by two converging forces: renewed geopolitical instability driving energy price volatility, and emerging stress within the rapidly expanded private credit market. Together, these dynamics are reintroducing uncertainty into credit markets—and, in the process, reinforcing the value of collateral‑based lending structures.
Appointment is in conjunction with a seamless leadership transition at year end, as the firm continues its strategic growth and momentum across the transactional and business offering
SFNet’s Reimagined: AI & Automation in Secured Finance is a new, one-day conference designed to explore how technologies are transforming asset-based lending and factoring today—and what comes next. Keynote Speaker, Nick Pericle, a technology expert and the founder of Tenexity, will have a hands-on demonstration using tools and AI prompts to help business leaders grasp and come away with real world solutions that can immediately be implemented to improve their company workflow.
Club Deals Are Reshaping Asset-Based Lending: A New Era of Collaboration in a Competitive Market
As 50 Cent once said, "Go shorty, it's your birthday..." - and in the world of asset-based lending (ABL), it’s officially the season to “get in the club.” But in this case, the club isn’t a party - it’s a smart strategy where lenders team up to win bigger, better deals. Club partnerships are going to become critical as the market for large $50 to $100+ mm non-bank ABL facilities grows.
Leaders from across the secured finance industry gathered in Las Vegas in February for the Secured Finance Network’s Annual Asset-Based Capital Conference (ABCC) to discuss the forces reshaping asset-based and middle market lending.
Lessons from Fraud, Growth, and Even a Little “Green Eyeshade”
After a full and fast-paced day of sessions discussing fraud, lender diligence, and the now well-known First Brands situation, at SFNet’s Supply Chain Finance Convergence on March 3 in New York City, I couldn’t help but think about an unexpected cinematic analogy: Raiders of the Lost Ark. I do love movies, and I find it hard to believe that Raiders is now 45 years old. Goodness.