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Carillon Capital Partners and Blue Bridge Financial Announce Partnership to Serve Financial Institution Industry

Carillon focuses on the acquisition and disposition, on behalf of banks and lenders, of a variety of consumer lending products including loans and receivables backed by recreational vehicles, automobiles, boats, student loans, home equity lines of credit, credit cards, and residential mortgages. Mortgage related activities will focus on Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) qualifying assets required by banks.

Blue Bridge Financial will provide the necessary product expertise in the small business equipment lending and leasing arena while also providing the marketing, sales and distribution platform for the asset types noted above.

In the 3^rd quarter of 2010, Carillon completed nearly $1 billion of consumer asset transactions on behalf of clients. Another $1 billion in transactions is anticipated for the 4^th quarter of 2010.

Rob Snow, Managing Partner, Carillon Capital Partners, commented, "Carillon continues to see significant growth in demand for a variety of consumer assets from our depository institution clients of all sizes. The partnership with Blue Bridge provides Carillon a unique expertise in small business lending and increased distribution capabilities."

This partnership coincides with the opportunity provided by the recently enacted Small Business Jobs Act of 2010 (H.R. 5297) allowing financial institutions to immediately deploy funds into qualified loans facilitated by this alliance.

Mark DeBacker, Blue Bridge Financial CEO, added, "Recent legislative and regulatory initiatives have placed an emphasis on small business lending within the financial institution industry. Carillon and Blue Bridge, with this partnership, are well positioned to provide consultative services as well as a mature distribution network to financial institutions to take advantage of these significant near-term opportunities."

A summary of the recently passed small business legislation can be found at www.carilloncapital.com.

About Carillon Capital Partners, LLC:

Carillon Capital Partners is a boutique investment bank, strategic advisor, and merchant bank specializing in small to middle market companies in the financial services, technology and federal contracting industries.

About Blue Bridge Financial, LLC:

Blue Bridge Financial, LLC, is a leading provider of equipment finance solutions to financial institutions on a national basis. Blue Bridge's unique turnkey equipment finance solution provides for full-scale outsourcing of the origination, underwriting, servicing and management of equipment finance loan portfolios for financial institutions.

Carillon Capital Partners, LLC
Rob Snow, 301-229-2054
rsnow@carilloncapital.com
or
Blue Bridge Financial, LLC
Mark DeBacker, 716-204-8467
mdebacker@bluebridgefinancial.com