All articles by Verdict Staff

Verdict Staff

Summer days and one winter night

Grant Collinson looks forward to a winter night in Berlin.

Fleet Friday: Banking, values and tax

The weekly round-up of all things fleet including Hitachi Capital’s deal with RBS, LCV values and offers, free fleet tax guide, and tougher road safety measures.

Protect your assets with interim delivery-up orders

David Farnell and Ben Lowans look at one option open to lessors for recovering assets promptly

What UK leasing is doing right

Stephen Sklaroff examines some of the industry’s achievements as well as challenges still ahead

Kennet joins FLA and signs peer-to-peer deal

UK broker Kennet Equipment Leasing has become a member of the Finance & Leasing Association (FLA).

Fleet Friday: From rupees to LCVs

A weekly round-up of fleet news including UCO Bank’s deal with Tata Motors, German fleet registrations, Ebbon-Dacs expansion plans, public-private fleet management preferences, the ‘negative’ impact of UK new registrations on fleet, telematics, multiple EV and smartphone application investments, Ford, Nissan, Renault, Iveco and Volvo.

CAL&F posts slight profit drop

Crédit Agricole Leasing & Factoring (CAL&F) has reported a 3.7% year-on-year drop in net profit and a 3.9% drop in revenue for the first half of 2013.

Right of Use model is ‘simply unworkable’

Leaseurope’s Jacqueline Mills looks at the positives and negatives of the second lease accounting exposure draft

Issues at the heart of our industry

Rest assured this monthly column is not is about to be replaced by a regular emotional outpouring but, after the erstwhile editor Fred Crawley’s appreciative parting note last month, I feel it is only appropriate to show some gratitude myself.

How education is being radically overhauled

Business education in the future will be about joint ventures that blend market credibility and academic capability says Professor Peter Thomas of The Leasing Foundation