Quotevine looks back at 2020 and unveils plans for 2021
Throughout 2020 Quotevine - a provider of software and services for the UK asset finance sector - unveiled a series of…
Cost-benefit analysis urged for IFRS 16 leasing rules
Leaseurope, the European trade federation representing the leasing sector, has called on the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) to carefully balance the costs to SMEs of bringing leased assets onto…
03 Dec 2020
Why I gave Société Générale Equipment Finance the Editor’s Award 2020
The Editor's Award 2020 at the Leasing Life prize-giving virtual event went to Société Générale Equipment Finance. Here's why: This lessor was founded in 1924 with the creation of a…
19 Nov 2020
Bank asset finance and obstacles on the road to a low-carbon future
Earlier this year, the European Union (EU) outlined its plan to tackle the ecological crisis and the economic crises together by pledging to put a Green Deal at the centre…
12 Nov 2020
Coronavirus: timeline of how Covid-19 first hit the leasing sector
How has the global spread of coronavirus impacted the asset finance community? This timeline offers a blow-by-blow account: 22 July Lenders support more than 1.1m businesses with £47.9m in Covid-19…
24 Jul 2020
Prising open CBILS is an FLA work in progress, but time is running out
The government rescue response to the Covid-19 crisis for UK SMEs has undergone significant reform since its birth in the Spring Budget and pushing for change behind-the-scenes has been the…
07 Apr 2020
Close Brothers in good health as Fitch takes ‘rating action’
The prospect of higher SME loan defaults has prompted Fitch Ratings, a provider of global credit ratings, to take "rating action" on Close Brothers, among several other mid-sized UK banking…
06 Apr 2020