NEW YORK, NY--(Marketwired - Sep 15, 2015) - Resource Capital Corp. (NYSE: RSO) (the "Company") announced today that it has entered into a new $250 million commercial real estate term financing facility with Morgan Stanley Bank, N.A. The facility will be used to finance the continued expansion of the Company's long established core commercial real estate lending business, the origination of floating rate whole loans, on lightly transitional properties nationwide. The financing facility has an initial term of three years with one-year extension options thereafter.

Dave Bloom, the Company's Head of Real Estate, commented, "This new term financing facility with Morgan Stanley again demonstrates RSO's ability to access flexible credit to support our continued growth. RSO has a full forward pipeline of lending opportunities and the addition of this financing facility provides adequate scale and term to fuel the growth of our nationwide direct origination platform. The new credit facility brings our total capacity of term financing facilities to $650 million, which will be utilized to aggregate collateral while we prepare to access the structured finance market on a regular basis, as we have four times in the past twenty months. RSO has a long established relationship with Morgan Stanley and we are pleased to enter into this financing facility and look forward to the ongoing expansion of our relationship."

RSO is a real estate investment trust that is primarily focused on originating, holding and managing commercial mortgage loans and other commercial real estate-related debt and equity investments. The Company is also active in commercial finance, including through Northport Capital, its middle market lending platform. The Company is externally managed by Resource Capital Manager, Inc., an indirect wholly-owned subsidiary of Resource America, Inc. (NASDAQ: REXI), an asset management company that specializes in real estate and credit investments. For more information, please visit the Company's website at www.resourcecapitalcorp.com or contact investor relations at pkamdar@resourceamerica.com.

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