Citizens announced that it has provided a $50 million credit facility to Charlotte, N.C.-based Crosslake Technologies. Citizens is Left Lead Arranger and Administrative Agent.

Crosslake Technologies provides data-driven technology due diligence and value creation advisory services for private equity firms and their portfolio companies. The company’s capabilities include advisory support of software delivery processes, architecture, enterprise systems, and cybersecurity, all delivered by experienced technology practitioners

I love the study of Stoicism and apply it daily.  Marcus Aurelius (Roman emperor from 161 to 180 and a stoic philosopher) wanted us “to bear in mind constantly that all of this has happened before and will happen again.” We might think we are in unique times, that no one has ever gone through what we have gone through, but that is false.  We lived through the Great Recession, but before that there was the Great Depression.  The COVID-19 pandemic is not even close to being the worst plaque to strike humanity (Marcus Aurelius lived during a horrific plague that killed 18 million people, including his own children).  Political turmoil and nationalism; let us not forget World War II, the Civil War and many other wars before that. What defines us is not the age we live in, but what WE do when faced with these trials.