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Steve O'Leary and the Machinery of Money
A career that began with winding down a leasing book became four decades of building them. At Clarus Capital, Steve O'Leary is betting that patient underwriting, longtime colleagues and private credit can keep American equipment moving.
Clarus Capital Put a $100 Million Ceiling on the Machine Room - Then Banks Stepped Back
The Boston lender built a private-credit business around an unfashionable truth: factories, fleets and data centers still need expensive physical things. Its playbook pairs leveraged-credit judgment with equipment expertise - and turns those contracts into repeatable capital-market fuel.
The $1 Billion Machine Behind the Machines
36th Street Capital turns forklifts, servers and factory floors into financial flexibility. Its quiet advantage is a hybrid funding engine built for deals that do not fit neatly inside a bank's credit box.
Valley Bank
Valley Bank has spent nearly a century getting bigger without wanting to feel big. Now, with about $64 billion in assets and a push into partner banking, it is testing whether a regional lender can offer national-bank machinery with a relationship banker still attached.