NEW YORK, NY, May 07, 2010 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) --Resource Capital Corp. (NYSE: RSO) announced today that it will participate in The Ninth Annual JMP Securities Research Conference that will take place May 10th - 12th in San Francisco, California. Jonathan Z. Cohen, President and CEO, will speak on May 10th from 09:30 to 09:55 AM (Pacific Time) in Salon IV. The management of RSO will be available for questions after the presentation.

About Resource Capital Corp.

Resource Capital Corp. is a commercial real estate specialty finance company that qualifies as a real estate investment trust, or REIT, for federal income tax purposes. Resource Capital Corp.'s investment strategy focuses on commercial real estate-related assets and, to a lesser extent, higher-yielding commercial finance assets. The Company invests in the following asset classes: commercial real estate-related assets such as whole loans, A-notes, B-notes, mezzanine loans and mortgage-related securities and commercial finance assets such as senior secured corporate loans, equipment leases and notes, trust preferred securities, and debt tranches of collateralized debt obligations.

Resource Capital Corp. 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, commercial finance and financial fund management sectors.

For more information, please visit the Company's website at http://www.resourcecapitalcorp.com or contact investor relations at pkamdar@resourceamerica.com.

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