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Verdict Staff
Euro Auctions expands to US
Equipment auctioneer Euro Auctions has set up shop in the US with its first sale scheduled for early 2013.
Country snapshot: Denmark
Leasing Life has been delving into the European Union Eurostat database to discover some of the key macroeconomic and political indicators for different EU members. This month – Denmark
2020 vision – A look at the future of leasing
During discussions with European leasing professionals at the moment, two things are almost guaranteed; reluctance to speculate on future changes and an exasperated groan in reference to continuing economic “situation.”
Profile: Baking a leasing cake
With increased support from its parent bank and optimism regarding the “Basel III effect” Grant Collinson talks to ABN AMRO Lease about “growing the leasing cake”.
The importance of high cost leasing
I’m often asked two questions; why is D&D Leasing so expensive and secondly is there a moral issue with the cost of the credit we offer. To both questions I say this: we need to be where we are in the market to provide the service we do, for the kinds of customers we offer it to.
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What’s in a name?
What is the value of a brand name? And why do some organisations embellish their company logo with a strapline or ‘slogan’? BP, for example, took its image very seriously, spending £4.5m on its new logo and tagline ‘Beyond Petroleum’ in 2002. And, of course, nobody did ‘brand’ better than Steve Jobs, who after leaving Apple, invested $100,000 in developing an identity for his new company NeXt in 1985. He famously sold NeXT to Apple 1996 for $429 million and 1.5 million shares of Apple stock.
ING exit not reflection of UK leasing market Lombard
In the wake of the departure of ING Lease from UK asset finance, Lombard’s business and commercial head has emphasised the Dutch firm is leaving a growing lending market.
SGEF maintains profit despite business drop
The leasing business of Société Générale has recorded a 21% increase in profit for the third quarter despite a drop in business volume.
Lovett delighted to join Funding Circle
Funding Circle has appointed James Lovett as business development manager.
Making the most of your assets
The latest quarterly statistics from the Asset Based Finance Association (ABFA) once again demonstrate the ongoing level of support the asset based finance industry provides to UK businesses. Other lending types would do well to follow the asset based finance industry’s example of flexibility, says Evette Orams.
Although traditional bank lending continues to fall, advances made to the ABFA’s members’ clients reached £16 billion during the second quarter of 2012, with client numbers growing to 43,000.