Leasing Life European Conference and Awards 2012

Gold Partner

Société Générale

Société Générale Equipment Finance is a worldwide leader and long term partner for international equipment manufacturers and distributors. We operate in 39 countries – 25 with direct local presence.

We have a profound industry, product and asset knowledge, particularly in the transportation, industrial equipment and high tech markets.

Thanks to our local presence and to the expertise of our 3,000 multicultural employees, we offer an innovative and attractive range of tailor-made products and services to support the growth and development of our vendors and our customers.

Our goal is to become the reference for vendors and clients around the world – through consistent customer focus, innovation and professionalism.

Building Team Spirit Together

For more information, visit http://www.sgef.com/

Silver Partners

Genpact

Genpact Limited is a global leader in business process and technology management services. It leverages the power of smarter processes, smarter analytics and smarter technology to help its clients drive intelligence across their enterprise.

Commercial Finance is one of our key practices with 14+ years of deep domain expertise and a broad portfolio of core enterprise, software and industry-specific specialized services. Genpact has a strategic end-to-end partnership model established with its clients. This helps them transform their service offerings and drive better outcomes — increased revenue, better margins, lower delinquency levels, reduced cost of servicing and improved deal conversions.

For more information, visit http://www.genpact.com/

Silver Partners

Key Equipment Finance

Key Equipment Finance is a leading provider of capital equipment and solutions financing. We customise our financing products to meet your specific business objectives. We offer an extensive range of capabilities, tailoring services to meet the needs of a broad spectrum of clients.

Key Equipment Finance manages a $8 billion equipment portfolio and is an affiliate of KeyCorp (NYSE: KEY), a $89 billion financial services company. We have been in the leasing industry for 39 years and have a proven track record as a global company, capable of offering local services. 575 employees provide our clients with best-in-class financial solutions in over 30 countries worldwide.

For additional information, please visit http://www.kefonline.eu

Silver Partners

Nordea Finance

Nordea Finance is the leading finance company in the Nordic and Baltic region. Our knowledge of the local markets and key industries in the region makes us a valuable partner for international vendors looking for solutions to enhance their sales and profitability.

We focus on vendor programmes for manufactures, captives, dealers and point of sale. Additionally to sales finance we offer support to the whole value chain of our partners including Floor Plan and tools to increase customer loyalty. Our e-services makes doing business with us easy and provides support to our vendors processes.

We have 1 100 employees to support our customer’s own value chain and enable them to create success in their business.

www.nordeafinance.com

Cocktail Partner

Bank of America Merrill Lynch

Bank of America Leasing is the largest U.S. bank-owned equipment financing company. With $1.4 billion in revenue and $36.2 billion in owned assets, we deliver equipment financing solutions to more than 70,000 clients worldwide.

Global Vendor Finance (GVF), a segment of Banc of America Leasing, is a market leading, bank-owned, indirect lender in the vendor financing arena with a $5.7 billion portfolio. GVF provides liquidity and point of sale financing through a centralized offering for the products and services of manufacturers, distributors, software developers, service providers and captive finance companies across the globe

For more information, please visit http://www.bankofamerica.com/leasing.

Bronze Partner

GE Capital

With over $80 billion in assets, 19,000 employees, operations in 19 countries and more than five million customers, GE Capital is one of the region’s largest commercial and consumer lenders. Offering its clients more than money, GE Capital’s clients benefit from valuable experience and insight due to GE’s 130 years of experience in the industrial and technology markets. GE Capital is also a leading vender finance provider, with over 26 years’ experience and 2,000 vendors relationships across Europe.

For more information visit http://www.gecapital.eu

Bronze Partner

Grant Thornton

At Grant Thornton UK LLP we combine award-winning technical expertise with the intuition, insight and confidence gained from our extensive sector experience and a deeper understanding of our clients.

Our Leasing and Consumer Finance team is unique within the accountancy profession combining vast industry, product, and asset knowledge with a core service offering to add real value for our clients. We have an in depth understanding of the current issues affecting this sector and the ability to draw on the skills of our UK firm and that of the member firms within Grant Thornton International where necessary for a given project.

For more information, visit http://www.grant-thornton.co.uk/

Bronze Partner

Robocoder

Robocoder Corporation delivers custom enterprise applications in a fraction of time and cost to its customers and partners.

Recognizing that CHANGE is inevitable in life, since 1999, Robocoder Corporation, headquarters in British Columbia, Canada, sets out to embrace late changes in enterprise applications.

Their Rintagi platform is a point-and-click framework that has made collaboration and permission management easy for clients to work with their customers and vendors. Rintagi is a PaaS in the cloud so there is no need to install or maintain expensive servers, and no software to download or update, making development, verification and one-click deployment easy.

For more information, visit http://www.rintagi.com/

Lunch and Coffee Partners

White Clarke Group

White Clarke Group is a leading global provider of technology solutions to the Automotive and Asset finance sector. It is a worldwide organization employing around 500 professionals, with offices in the UK, USA, Canada, Australia, Austria and Germany.

The company’s CALMS2 end-to-end platform provides a flexible workflow approach that automates the entire business process from origination through contract to portfolio management. Tried, tested and proven in global organisations such as Ford Credit, FGA Capital, Volkswagen Financial Services, Toyota Financial Services, Raiffeisen Leasing, Leaseplan, John Deere Financial, Lombard Business Finance etc.

http://www.whiteclarkegroup.com/

To find out more about CALMS2 technology, please contact us:

Brendan Gleeson
Global Sales and Marketing Director
Email: bgleeson@whiteclarkegroup.com
Phone: +44 (0)1908 576605 (PA)

Badge and Lanyard Partner

Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers

Established in 1958, Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers is the world’s largest industrial auctioneer and sells hundreds of thousands of industrial assets to online and on-site bidders from around the world every year. In 2011, the Company received 385,000 bidder registrations at its globally held unreserved public auctions and sold 268,500 equipment items and trucks, generating gross auction proceeds of USD 3.7 billion. Through Ritchie Bros. auctions, owners of surplus equipment and trucks are able to remarket their assets to the highest bidders in the international market.

http://www.rbauction.com/

Table Host

Close Brothers Asset Finance

Close Brothers Asset Finance provides asset based funding solutions to small to medium sized businesses. With the backing of Close Brothers plc, a FTSE 250 financial services company, our facilities have helped thousands of customers put their assets straight to work and keep working capital intact.

We provide funding for commercial vehicles, construction plant, machine tools, printing machinery and many other capital purchases for businesses. We pride ourselves on being able to offer products that can be tailored to the needs of each individual customer and as a result have proudly won numerous industry awards.

Title Partner & Exclusive Leasing Life Awards Partner

CHP Consulting

CHP Consulting is a global supplier of asset and motor finance software and consultancy services, with an exceptional project delivery record. ALFA Systems, our class-leading software solution, delivers proven functionality using the latest technology standards. Delivered using a robust project implementation methodology, ALFA is used by leading asset finance businesses for full-lifecycle management of portfolios ranging from the most complex structured loans to high-volume flow transactions, in any country, language and currency.

CHP has offices in London, Paris, Boston and Sydney. For more information, visit http://www.chpconsulting.com/

Table Host

3 Step IT

3 Step IT is an IT services company offering customers a new way to acquire IT equipment. Our comprehensive service offering helps customers to manage financing, and the use and replacement of IT equipment in a transparent, cost-effective and sustainable way. When partnering with 3 Step IT, funding organisations will grow and expand their business within the IT-leasing sector. 3 Step IT is an international growth company with revenue of 392 million Euros in 2011. It has offices in 14 countries worldwide and employs 220 people. The headquarters are located in Finland. Find out more www.3stepit.com

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First Independent Finance

First Independent Finance is a UK provider of asset finance facilities to the SME market.

We are delighted the company has won many awards over the years. Accolades for innovation, skills and learning, service excellence & performance management, it is also a holder of the coveted Investors in People Gold award. People are the heart of FIF. We have a policy of encouraging employee ownership through our legacy programme and pride ourselves in offering our growing customer base “Trust, Choice, & Support”.

Above all else, we help our customers make confident choices when considering the use of funding for finance. www.f-I-f.co.uk

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Addleshaw Goddard

Addleshaw Goddard is an international law firm committed to delivering outstanding value and to doing all it can to help clients succeed in their ambitions in the UK and globally. The firm offers a full range of commercial legal services from its offices in London, Leeds, Manchester, Dubai and Singapore, and through a world-wide network of strong relationships with chosen firms in North America, Europe and other key and emerging jurisdictions. www.addleshawgoddard.com

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Lombard

At Lombard, we’re proud to be the UK’s leading provider of asset finance. As specialists in the funding of business assets, we’re committed to giving businesses of all sizes, from sole traders to FTSE100, the ability to source, acquire and manage the assets that help them achieve their goals.

In fact, we lend millions of pounds each day: supporting businesses across various sectors in acquiring the assets they need to grow their business. And because we’re business people too, we believe in going the extra mile – whatever the sector, we’ll do everything we can to help businesses acquire the funding they need to succeed. Visit www.lombard.co.uk

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Volkswagen Financial Services

Volkswagen Financial Services (UK) Limited (VWFS) is the captive finance company for the Volkswagen Group in the UK, offering finance and insurance services to customers of the Volkswagen Group Brands including Volkswagen, Audi, Bentley, SEAT, ŠKODA, Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles, Porsche, Bentley and Lamborghini. VWFS is based at Milton Keynes, and employs more than 500 people and placed 11^th in the 2012 Great Place to Work survey.

Volkswagen Financial Services also comprises Volkswagen Bank, Volkswagen Insurance Services and Volkswagen Group Leasing. VWFS is a wholly owned subsidiary of Volkswagen Financial Services AG, which is based in Braunschweig Germany. Visit http://www.vwfs.co.uk/

Bronze Partner

Challenge Consulting

Challenge Consulting aims to be the leading specialist firm delivering transformational change – and the first-choice partner for change in Asset Finance and Leasing today. Planning, designing, mobilising and delivering organisational change is what we do. We help organisations identify why and how they need to change.

Whether the challenge is dealing with regulatory change, delivering true innovation and client focus, transforming C/I ratio or operational performance, optimising ‘flow’ or ‘non-flow’ business models or managing large programmes of change that result from an IT implementation, we have carried out some of the most challenging and important projects in the sector.

Bronze Partner

De Lage Landen

De Lage Landen, a fully owned subsidiary of Rabobank Group, specializes in asset-based financing programs for equipment manufacturers, dealers and distributors all over the world. Our programs cover our customers’ total distribution chain, as well as the entire lease lifecycle. We offer customers a single source for leasing, administration, risk and asset management solutions. De Lage Landen’s diversified solutions include car leasing in the European market and consumer finance and factoring in the Dutch home market.

For more information, visit www.delagelanden.com

Documentation Partner

Lease & Load Insurance

Lease & Loan Insurance Services Limited is a recognised leader in providing insurance products to commercial equipment lessors, lenders and manufacturers, and vehicle finance markets in Europe.

Our insurance solutions are designed to enhance your product range, deliver an additional revenue source to your business and provide asset protection. Our successful pan-European programmes deliver consistent and flexible multi-lingual insurance solutions across multiple territories.

Lease & Loan Insurance Services Limited has been providing insurance programmes to major financial institutions in Europe since 1991. We are part of the Great American Insurance Group whose roots go back to 1872 with the founding of its flagship Great American Insurance Company which has received an "A" (Excellent) rating or higher from A.M. Best Company for over 100 years.

For more information, visit www.llisl.com

Bronze Partner

Cisco Capital

Cisco Capital is a wholly owned subsidiary of Cisco Systems. We specialise in providing innovative financing solutions for Cisco’s customers globally. We deliver financing solutions designed to support our customers’ business goals and technology needs, both now and in the future. Cisco Capital is uniquely positioned to provide the most competitive and flexible financing to acquire Cisco technologies. For more information visit www.ciscocapital.com/emea

Table Host

Kennet Equipment Leasing

Based in the West Midlands near to the NEC, Kennet Equipment Leasing has been providing own-book and brokered finance to SME’s since 1991.

Kennet’s own-book funding has grown by a third in the last 12 months to just under £10M, and in 2011 our turnover increased by 44%. With access to over 20 UK banks and finance houses, we are looking to increase that portfolio and build even more funder relationships that will help to sustain this growth.

Technological advances during 2012 have included the launch of the Kennet Leasing Smartphone App, as well as the e-sign document. This year also saw us nominated for both Leasing World and Leasing Life Broker of The Year.