Regions announced that Leo Loughead 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.

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 the Asset Securitization Group. Previously, he worked in the Fixed Income Currency and Commodities groups at Merrill Lynch and JPMorgan.

“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,” said Dierdorff. “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.”