[April 28, 2015]

Access Point Financial, Inc. Recognized For Strategic Growth by Atlanta Business Chronicle

Access Point Financial (APF), a direct full-service lender and capital markets enterprise focused on the hospitality industry, has been recognized as one of Atlanta's premier growth companies as ranked by the Atlanta Business Chronicle's 20^th Annual Pacesetter Awards. Access Point (News - Alert) was the highest ranked commercial real estate related finance company, and 20^th overall among all industry sectors as ranked in the top 100. Winners were acknowledged during a breakfast and ceremony on Thursday, April 23 at the Georgia World Congress Center.

"Over the years, I have attributed our ability to weather economic downturns to our highly skilled and cohesive leadership team who, along with our Greenwich based equity partners, have once again proven the company's long term sustainability in good or challenging economies," said Jon S. Wright, CEO of Access Point Financial. "Our ability to continually build new and unique client relationships, coupled with recurring busiess flow of loyal clients over the past 25 years, provides APF accretive and long term viability, which has been our hallmark over the years. Throughout this time, we have developed a verifiable track record, experiencing less than 50 basis points of bad debt spanning almost $7 billion of loans originated or managed. We appreciate and are honored to be recognized by the Atlanta Business Chronicle, and continue to build a more efficient enterprise with integrity based relationships to include our business partners and investors."

In 2014, APF surpassed the $500 million hotel loan threshold, representing more than $1 billion in hotel asset valuations and 325 loans. The company also increased its leverage capacity to $400 million, representing current debt providers, Wells Fargo, Key Bank, EverBank, PacWest-Capital Source (News - Alert) and East West Bank. To accommodate its human resources growth, APF also expanded its physical space to 24,500 square feet at the Ravinia office park.

Wright added, "In addition to loyal clients and a management team with an average tenure of a dozen years, APF is strategically positioned with its diversification of domestic and international money center banks. This along with our substantial equity backing from our partners, ensures we provide the best of a public-private collaboration specific to entrepreneurial decision making and urgency of such. APF is an endorsed third party debt provider for top hospitality organizations and corporate franchisors in North America, and we continually adapt our products to meet the needs of customers in today's competitive, ever-evolving market."

About Access Point Financial

Based in Atlanta, Access Point Financial (APF) is a direct full-service lender servicing the hospitality industry. APF was formed by a private equity firm based in Greenwich, Ct. and the APF Management team. APF lends to qualified franchisees of major hotel brands and independent boutique hotels throughout the United States and Canada and is not an owner operator of hotel assets. For more information, visit www.accesspointfinancial.com.

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