Hickman Shearer and CA Global Partners to sell Arena Television’s assets
Hickman Shearer, a capital asset valuation, management and used equipment sales company and CA Global Partners, a provider of asset management, have jointly announced they will conduct a live and...
Grenke achieves €1.7bn in new leasing business in 2021
The Grenke Group, a provider of financing for small and medium-sized enterprises, generated new leasing business of €1,657.8m during the...
How to prosper in a post-pandemic world with the support of outsourced insurance administration
By Matt Salvage, Head of Client Management, at outsourced equipment insurance specialist, Acquis There’s nothing average about this spring. Aside...
Directors’ duties and claims for ill-gotten gains
Administrators of Arena Television are reportedly investigating an alleged fraud involving millions of pandemic loans, where government-backed loans were offered...
France: Omicron-inspired lockdown may undo lessors’ 2021 gains
An uneven economic recovery, ongoing issues around supply chains and the latest Covid variant have left French leasing companies –...
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Close Brothers Asset Finance boosts transport team with three new hires
Close Brothers Asset Finance’s Transport team has appointed three areas sales managers. Savio Zuzarte, who will focus on Milton Keynes, Bedford…
FLA welcomes in 2022 with appointment of Simply CEO to board
The Finance & Leasing Association (FLA) has ushered in the New Year with the appointment of Mike Randall as a…
Allica Bank becomes first non-CBILS lender to join recovery loan scheme
Challenger bank Allica has been accredited for the Recovery Loan Scheme (RLS), becoming the first bank outside of the original…
Permanent TSB to buy Ulster Bank’s €400m Lombard business from NatWest
Permanent TSB has completed a deal to buy the asset finance business, loan book and branches of NatWest Group's Ulster…
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Top of the 2022 agenda for UK lessors
The Finance & Leasing Association’s director of government affairs and stakeholder engagement, Edward Simpson, considers what is uppermost in the minds of the FLA membership...
Lessor’s Kafkaesque nightmare: the cost of doing business in China
China is expected to create significant opportunities in all sectors of the aviation industry as the world emerges from the pandemic, but the 2019 detention...
Financing wide-scale EV adoption in the UK
With the dust still settling on the COP26 conference in Glasgow, Andy Page of Sofico UK, a provider of software for automotive finance and leasing companies, considers...
Lessors poised to answer call for more energy-efficient assets: Leaseurope
As Europe reduces its carbon footprint in line with the Paris Agreement on climate change, the focus on producing and using energy-efficient assets has increased....
UK government could do more to champion green asset investing
The UK trade body for asset finance providers believes the Boris Johnson government has, so far, missed an opportunity to support UK businesses through the...
Skills investment must follow furlough to support an evolving UK workforce
In early October, the Office for National Statistics reported that the UK had under 2 million people on furlough, with the bulk belonging to the...
COP26: Leasing strategies can deliver much-needed benefits
It's no secret that Covid-19 has introduced unprecedented economic pressures, which has, in turn, forced a reappraisal of priorities, says Neil Richards, partner, head of...
Why I signed up for the Diploma in Asset Finance
Ross Grant works as a senior finance consultant at White Oak, which provides financing to SMEs. He recently completed the Level 5 Diploma in Asset Finance...
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