CIT, a division of First Citizens Bank, has named Randy Lederman as a managing director for business development activities across the Northeast for CIT Northbridge Credit LLC, a joint venture advised by CIT Asset Management LLC.

Based in New York, Lederman will be responsible for sourcing new asset-based loan opportunities from $15 million to $150 million with business borrowers across a range of credit profiles. His appointment represents CIT Northbridge’s continued dedication to serving client and referral sources in the northeast.

I hope you had a safe and peaceful weekend as many of us celebrated the Passover and Easter holidays and found some respite from the crisis in our friends, families and communities.  Events continue to unfold at a rapid pace, and I’d like to bring you up to speed on what our association is doing to analyze and share information and influence outcomes to support our collective interests.  Our priority remains to attend to the well-being of our SFNet community and to fulfill our mission of putting capital to work. 

On the legislative and regulatory front, we have focused our Advocacy resources on three imperatives.

• Leveraging the CARES Act. Last week an additional $250B was pledged to the already oversubscribed Paycheck Protection Program. SFNet and our volunteers, in alignment with the AFA, ELFA, ASEA and other trade associations, are petitioning legislators to simplify execution challenges, modify affiliation rules and extend eligibility to financial services companies under PPP. Our positions on these matters can be found at SFNet.com.