Resource Capital Corp. to Report Operating Results

NEW YORK, July 15, 2013 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Resource Capital Corp. (NYSE: RSO ) (the "Company") announced today that it will release its second quarter 2013 operating results on Tuesday, August 06, 2013, after market hours, and invites investors and other interested parties to listen to the live webcast of its conference call on Wednesday, August 07, 2013, at 08:30 a.m. Eastern Time.

This call will be webcast live and can be accessed by investors and other interested parties from the home page of the Company's website at http://www.resourcecapitalcorp.com . For those unable to listen to the live broadcast, the replay of the webcast will be available following the live call on the Company's website and telephonically beginning at 10:30 a.m. E.T. on August 07, 2013 until midnight on September 07, 2013 by dialing 888-286-8010, passcode 73586196.

About Resource Capital Corp.

RSO is a diversified real estate finance company that is organized and conducts its operations to qualify as a REIT for federal income tax purposes. RSO's investment strategy focuses on commercial real estate (CRE) assets, and, to a lesser extent, commercial finance assets and other investments. RSO invests in the following asset classes: CRE-related assets such as commercial real estate property, whole loans, A-notes, B-notes, mezzanine loans, CMBS and investments in real estate joint ventures as well as commercial finance assets such as bank loans, lease receivables, other asset-backed securities, corporate bonds, trust preferred securities, debt tranches of CDOs, structured note investments, and private equity investments principally issued by financial institutions.

RSO is externally managed by Resource Capital Manager, Inc., an indirect wholly-owned subsidiary of Resource America, Inc. (Nasdaq: REXI ), a specialized asset management company that uses industry specific expertise to generate and administer investment opportunities for its own account and for outside investors in the real estate, financial fund management and commercial finance sectors.

For more information, please visit the Resource Capital Corp. website at www.resourcecapitalcorp.com or contact investor relations at pkamdar@resourceamerica.com .

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