Regions’ Financial Services Group announced Leo Loughead has joined the firm as a Managing Director, reporting to Tom Dierdorff, Senior Vice President and Group Head of Financial Services and Managing Director of Regions Securities LLC.

Loughead brings more than 20 years of banking and financial services experience, primarily as a specialist focused on structured credit, specialty finance and corporate finance advisory. Loughead will be based in Atlanta, and joins Regions from SunTrust Robinson Humphrey, where he led that firm’s Asset Securitization Group. Previously, he worked in the Fixed Income Currency and Commodities groups at Merrill Lynch and JPMorgan. Loughead is a graduate of the University of Illinois at Chicago.

"As former colleagues, Leo and I have known each other for many years, and we are excited about the tremendous opportunity to leverage his specialty finance, capital markets and tech-enabled lending expertise and deep issuer and sponsor relationships to further expand our financial services practice here at Regions," Dierdorff said. “Working in partnership with our teammates in securitization and asset-based lender finance, Leo will help Regions deliver comprehensive financing solutions, advice and other critical banking services to Regions’ clients in the commercial, consumer and equipment finance arenas.”

Through its Corporate Banking Group, Regions, based in Birmingham, AL, serves public and private companies throughout the bank’s geographic footprint as well as across the United States through its Specialized Industry groups.