Amy Thomas

When Amur Equipment Finance Inc. recently announced the closing of its eighth term securitization of $226.3 million, it represented another successful outcome aided by the expertise of Key.

Key Equipment Finance recently served as lead arranger of a group syndication providing $167.5 million in financing for the Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) container ship George III, which will join the Pasha Hawaii fleet serving the Hawaii trade lane. Based in Honolulu, Pasha Hawaii is one of the nation’s leading shipping and logistics companies.

KeyBank, which includes the Key Equipment Finance division, has been named a 2020 honoree of The Civic 50 by Points of Light, the world’s largest organization dedicated to volunteer service. 

Key Equipment Finance has provided $10 million in equipment financing to Traxys Processing Inc. for its new processing facility in Burnsville, Mississippi.

Key Equipment Finance and Ivory Consulting recently partnered to bring SuperTRUMP into Salesforce, a migration of Key's pricing operations for a proven solution for modeling and pricing complex leases and loans with Customer Relationship Management (CRM).

In its latest economic outlook, the Equipment Leasing & Finance Foundation acknowledges the substantial uncertainty stemming from the epidemiology of COVID-19 and the U.S. economic response.

Equipment finance professionals can view their early career years as too complex or busy to take time to develop leadership skills, but that mindset can keep them from exploring the professional growth opportunities available within the industry, say several industry leaders interviewed for a recent article in Equipment Leasing & Finance magazine.

Program removes financing as a barrier to investing in technologies that deliver much-needed savings and provide social benefits as cities face revenue shortfalls post-pandemic.

In a new video interview with the Equipment Finance Advisor, Shawn Arnone, senior vice president of commercial vendor finance for Key Equipment Finance, shares the challenges in the vendor finance sector of the equipment finance industry, and strategies to build and strengthen relationships.