A banking newcomer, CapStar Bank is now in a position to diversify into the equipment financing space and has turned to former GMAC Commercial Finance execs Lee Palm and Brian Shapiro to create CapStar Commercial Finance. In a cycle that he sees as favorable for emerging equipment finance units, Palm is building a team and focusing on the core values of credit, credit discipline, underwriting and deal structures.... read more

July/August 2011

Making Pawnee Leasing Corporation unique in the equipment leasing industry is its exclusive use of brokers for all originations. Even in an era in which others have abandoned the use of brokers, Pawnee unwaveringly adheres to its business model using the broker channel and prides itself in its broker support and training.... read more

June 2011

In business for a little more than four years, Arvest Equipment Finance has seen steady growth, even through a brutal economic downturn. With 2010 assets up $10.5 million, or 16.1% from 2009, the company has entered the Monitor 100 rankings at #96. Behind this success is Kyle W. Gilliam, president and CEO, and his team based in Fort Smith, AR. ... read more

June 2011

How do you transform a non-descript small-ticket leasing company whose business is sourced primarily through the broker channel into a burgeoning regional operation in 14 states focused on the middle market in two years’ time? We asked industry veteran Edward Perkowski, who heads First Niagara Leasing, and we found out that like its famous namesake, First Niagara Leasing is rapidly becoming a force to be reckoned with.... read more

June 2011

Western Alliance Equipment Finance has entered the Monitor 100 at #73 in style — boasting 101% asset growth and 55% volume growth in 2010. On a steady role since 2008 when Michael Brown, president and CEO, joined the company to lead the division, Western Alliance EF is poised to continue meeting its growth goals by sticking to the basics — offering a quality product with a personal touch.... read more

June 2011

In March 2011, De Lage Landen reported an impressive 79% increase in 2010 year-over-year net profit as compared to 2009. The Monitor sat down with CEO Ronald Slaats to discuss the company’s extraordinary performance, the vendor finance business on the global front as well as his thoughts on the current conditions in the U.S. market.... read more

May/June 2011

The Monitor spent time with EverBank Commercial Finance’s chief operating officer Jeff Hilzinger and David D’Antonio, the recently appointed managing director of EverBank’s new lender finance unit. While the initial focus will be on equipment and specialty finance companies, both executives affirm this is the first of many undertakings EverBank Commercial Finance will take on in funding commercial finance companies.... read more

May/June 2011

Late last year, Tim Conway, NewStar Financial’s chairman & CEO, told ABF Journal readers that the launch of its new ABL business signified the Boston-based specialty finance company’s intention to broaden its offering and build its product set in areas synergistic to its existing client base. The formation of NewStar Equipment Finance confirms the fact the Conway isn’t messing around…... read more

March/April 2011

Six months after taking over the reigns at SunTrust Equipment Finance & Leasing as president, Ken Turner is geared to expand the bank subsidiary by diversifying its balance sheet, optimizing the company’s business mix and growing its market share.... read more

January/February 2011

The equipment finance industry took notice when industry veterans Phil Carlson and Tom Fanelli announced the formation of Nations Equipment Finance only weeks ago. What compels the two to create a new venture once again? Maybe it’s something like the thrill of the launch and, of course, to seize some big opportunities.... read more

November/December 2010

To wrap up the year, the Monitor asked Fountain Partners’ founder Tom Carter to share both the genesis and the intricacies of the San Francisco-based funding source’s Instant Proposal Service. For Carter and his team, it’s all about giving brokers and lessees what they’ve always wanted…... read more

November/December 2010

With recently passed tax incentives in capital equipment, new emissions standards ready to take effect at the end of 2010 and one of the oldest U.S. truck fleets on record nearing a necessary replacement cycle, Martin Weissburg, the president and CEO of Volvo Financial Services, thinks the future is looking bright for the American trucking sector. ... read more

October 2010

Take one materials handling finance professional with nearly 30 years experience under his belt, one ten-year old equipment leasing company and a healthy portfolio of forklifts, and you come up with something new … something like First Financial Corporate Services’ Materials Handling Solutions.... read more

October 2010

As IBM Corporation prepares to celebrate its first century next year, a veteran leader who has just taken the helm of the company’s financing arm, managing $35 billion in assets, shares his plans to keep IBM Global Financing (IGF) the “enabler” of success — for both its clients and its parent.... read more

September 2010

Earlier this year, Huntington Bank made headlines in the financial press by delivering impressive 2010 first-quarter earnings after facing what some have called a “near death experience” in 2009. The Monitor took notice when industry veteran Rick Remiker was named president of Huntington Equipment Finance Group, charged with the task of taking the group to the next level.... read more

July/August 2010