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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001213900-26-083324"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "FRBP"
cik: "0001825248"
company_name: "Franklin BSP Capital Corp"
filed_at: "2026-07-30T20:05:15+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-07-30T20:08:42.616684+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.3
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Franklin BSP Capital appoints Kathleen Oates as Chief Accounting Officer, replacing Nina Baryski

## Summary
- Kathleen Oates appointed Chief Accounting Officer (Principal Financial Officer and Principal Accounting Officer) effective July 27, 2026.
- Oates is an Executive Director at Benefit Street Partners (joined 2020); previously Senior Manager at PwC.
- Oates succeeds Nina Baryski, who departed concurrently.
- No family relationships or transactions with company required to be reported under Item 404(a).

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001213900-26-083324
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: FRBP
- cik: 0001825248
- company_name: Franklin BSP Capital Corp
- filed_at: 2026-07-30T20:05:15+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.3
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1825248/000121390026083324/0001213900-26-083324-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1825248/000121390026083324/ea0299564-8k_franklin.htm

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