SEATTLE, September 9, 2014 – Key Equipment Finance’s Scott C. Edwards, senior vice president and business banking sales director for Key Equipment Finance, has graduated from Pacific Coast Banking School (PCBS). This year's graduating class consisted of 209 executives representing 29 states, territories and other countries. Ten were from Key.
The students attended courses encompassing risk management, financial performance and leadership to gain an executive-level understanding of the business of banking.
For 76 years, the prestigious Pacific Coast Banking School has partnered with the University of Washington Graduate School of Business to provide this three-year graduate-level program to more than 10,000 members of the financial services community. Graduates attended a two-week resident session each August on the University of Washington campus, as well as completed seven inter-session written assignments, including an original management thesis.
“Balancing the demands of their jobs with the rigorous curriculum and high standards of Pacific Coast Banking School represents an exceptional commitment to the industry from all our graduates,” said Brian Rice, regional president for Key’s Pacific Region comprising Oregon, Alaska and Washington. “At KeyBank we fully support their endeavor and applaud their commitment to building their careers and to delivering top-quality information and service to our customers and business partners.”
About Key Equipment Finance
Key Equipment Finance has been in the equipment finance business for 41 years and is one of the largest bank-based equipment finance providers in the U.S. The company provides tailored equipment lease and finance solutions for commercial clients and government entities. Through its manufacturer and vendor alliances unit, equipment finance programs are developed for manufacturers, distributors and resellers.
Key Equipment Finance’s specialty finance group includes a lease capital markets team to support corporations looking to optimize risk and revenue, and a lender finance team, which provides structured facilities to various sectors of the specialty finance market. Headquartered outside Denver, Colorado, Key Equipment Finance manages $9.1 billion in assets and originates $4.3 billion of equipment financing annually. For more information, visit http://www.keyequipmentfinance.com.
About KeyCorp
KeyCorp was organized more than 160 years ago and is headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio. One of the nation's largest bank-based financial services companies, Key has assets of approximately $91.8 billion at June 30, 2014. Key provides deposit, lending, cash management and investment services to individuals, small and medium-sized businesses under the name of KeyBank National Association. Key also provides a broad range of sophisticated corporate and investment banking products, such as merger and acquisition advice, public and private debt and equity, syndications and derivatives to middle market companies in selected industries throughout the United States under the KeyBanc Capital Markets trade name. For more information, visit https://www.key.com/. KeyBank is Member FDIC.
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