Articles by Caroline Vega

Starwood Property Trust’s second quarter earnings exceeded analyst estimates powered by growth in its infrastructure lending business. The mortgage real estate investment trust reported second quarter net income of $129.8 million, up 66 percent from […]

Scott Waynebern’s Midtown South Manhattan office serves as an homage to his commercial real estate finance journey — up to and including the launch eight years ago of multifamily lender MF1 as a joint venture […]

Commercial real estate is a big investment. That’s why locking in the best rate for your loan matters. Even a small difference in interest rates can have a big impact on monthly payments and your […]

BIRMINGHAM, Ala., July 28, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — First US Bank is proud to announce that Scott Cox has joined the Bank as its Senior Commercial Lending Executive. Cox is a highly accomplished commercial banker, bringing […]

While 2024 was a slow year for borrower demand — as election-related uncertainty and high interest rates put pressure on lenders’ commercial clients — the top-performing banks with between $10 billion and $50 billion of […]

A slump in short-term credit flows to US businesses is underscoring growing risks to the world’s largest economy, according to one economist. Total commercial and industrial (C&I) lending shrank 1% year-to-date, compared with a 9.3% […]

BATON ROUGE, La. (press release) — Cardinal Capital, a boutique commercial finance advisory firm based in Baton Rouge, says the artificial intelligence (AI) boom is no longer just a Silicon Valley story—it’s reshaping the energy […]

In the world of mystery and wonder that is the current tariff landscape, the buzzwords for business have been instability and uncertainty, which also happen to be two of the least desired words in the […]