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Verdict Staff
Materials Handling: market continues to pick up
Despite operating in a market dominated by a limited number of industry specialists, materials handling funding is still a growing business, as Jonathan Minter reports
Leasing ups its game
With the crushing, inevitable, group exit for England in the FIFA World Cup still fresh in the mind, I can at least take solace in the hours of entertaining football played by the other nations competing throughout the tournament. While dreams of an England football triumph might have been crushed, at least the UK and European leasing industry have less to worry about, as industry insiders remain highly optimistic about the current situation of the market.
The quest for capital
With increasing banking regulation and reserve capital requirements causing bank lending to drop, asset finance providers are having to look to pastures new for their funding needs, as Mike Cobb reports
Fleet Friday: ALD go electric
A weekly round up of Fleet news from around Europe. This week ALD adds electric to a french fleet, and Lex autolease win £100m contract.
Plant and construction feature: Cautious optimism at best
Although the worst may well be over, the depressed European market in plant and construction is picking up in a patchy way across the continent. Paul Golden reviews the various markets and speaks to some of the industrys key insiders
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Lois can bring order to chaos
As the winds of regulatory change sweep the lease accounting world, some businesses are ready to take on the challenge. Isabella Grotto and Jonathan Minter speak to Martin Kennard and Sue Lebreton of lease portfolio manager Innervision about the state of the industry, international expansions and their lease management software, Lois
Numbers that speak for themselves
The asset finance and leasing industry has proven the benefits of itself since the start of the credit crisis and has the stats to back it up. So why aren’t more lessors joining the market across the continent? Chris Boobyer asks why this is the case
Editor’s letter: Sunshine and optimism
As I look out of the window at another fine June day in London I, like all of us, is hoping we get, for once, a glorious summer full of sunny weather.
Finance product was a supply of services
In a recent case the Upper Tribunal had to decide if a motor finance product offered by Mercedes-Benz was a supply of goods or a supply of services, with important implications for the imposition of VAT. James Baird explains the Tribunals decision
Devolution vs the Bank of England
From the NACFB’s London base, we’ve maintained an effort to represent all the corners of the UK as well as we’re able, but now the devolution vote is drawing closer it’s a good time to reassess how a split might affect the commercial finance broker.