With recovery becoming a more tangible prospect, lenders are starting to look aggressively towards the market again – and for some business leaders, this means devising a whole new plan of action. Continue Reading

In another tough month for leasing brokers, the UK’s tier one funding landscape grows smaller yet. Continue Reading

Can financial services groups boost overall sales by bringing asset finance closer to other commercial lending? Continue Reading

As lessors look for a low risk approach to trade supply finance, Fred Crawley of Leasing Life discovers that asset management firms may provide the way in: Continue Reading

Fred Crawley of Leasing Life asks, “is now the time for UK introducers to venture into unchartered territory on the continent?” Continue Reading

“We don’t want to be bankers. We want to sell our product and develop our product, but it looks like this is how we’re going to have to do it.” So says Tamlyn Thomson, who has just started a captive finance operation for his business, Idscan Biometrics, and is not particularly happy about it.

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“There is currently no recession in British agriculture” – so says Paul McCarthy, managing partner of the AGF group, a unique alliance of brokers hoping to pick up what they see as the perfectly good business left behind by banks in their scramble to escape all corners of the equipment finance market.

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The container leasing industry has been caught in a mess of powerful market forces for some time, as consumer demand has dropped and port volumes have melted away worldwide. Now, with the economic situation still on the slide, it seems that “bigger is better” will become the new maxim for survival. Continue Reading