Amy Thomas

"The global pandemic posed formidable challenges for specialty finance lending in 2020, but also demonstrated the sector's resilience," said Rian Emmett, Managing Director and Group Head of KeyBank Specialty Finance Lending, during a recent podcast interview for the Refinitiv LPC Lender Spotlight Series podcast.

Note to readers: This article first appeared on the Equipment Finance Advisor.

The rapid proliferation of connectivity and medical data has outpaced the implementation of rigorous cybersecurity around health care. As a result, online health care information today is one of the most susceptible, and profitable, targets for cybercrime, according to a recent article in Radiology Today by Ralph Tomei, Vice President of Sales at Key Equipment Finance.

Ryan van de Boogaard, leasing manager for Enterprise Vendor Group at Key Equipment Finance, is among 40 young professionals profiled this year by The Monitor for its inaugural NextGen issue.

Key Equipment Finance executive Amy Gross has been named to the board of directors for the Equipment Leasing & Finance Association (ELFA), the leading industry trade association for the equipment finance industry.

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.