UK independent IT finance provider Syscap is calling on the Conservative-Liberal Democrat government to include leasing as part of its plans to introduce a major new loan guarantee scheme to small and medium enterprises (SMEs). Continue Reading

Pre lending reviews, turnaround funding and early warning systems – Fred Crawley discovers how there are more ways than ever for lessors to avoid the pain of client insolvency. Continue Reading

A new video conferencing provider with experience of Sales Aid leasing in Scandinavia has set its sights on growth in the UK, using leasing to pursue a greater share of the SME market. Continue Reading

Can asset finance lenders embrace cashflow finance quickly enough to take advantage of the ID boom? Continue Reading

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

Can financial services groups boost overall sales by bringing asset finance closer to other commercial lending? 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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Rumours of the catering industry’s death have been greatly exaggerated in financial circles – or so it would seem, from the thousands of solvent small businesses currently trying, and failing, to make even the most unambitious equipment purchases through asset finance.

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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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