DLL won the 2021 vendor finance provider award and digital innovation award from Leasing Life, a leasing industry journal in Europe, at the 17^th Leasing Life Conference and Awards in Barcelona.

The vendor finance provider award recognizes an asset finance lessor that has worked in conjunction with a manufacturer to provide tailored asset finance at the point of sale. This is the third time in four years that DLL has won this award.

The awards jury cited DLL as “a clear global leader with a uniquely dedicated focus on the sector, showing not just current capability but a clear eye to future sector needs and continuously enhancing its value proposition with services such as asset management, stock financing and many other[s].”

“We are very proud that our efforts and expertise continue to be recognized by both our industry peers and the top leasing publication in Europe,” Mike Janse, COO at DLL, said. “We truly believe that being close to our partners and customers is what differentiates DLL. Our mission of ‘partnering for a better world’ took on a new and significant meaning during the past two years, and we are proud of the amazing adaptability and resilience displayed by our workforce, as well as their efforts to help support our vendor partners and customers. Our vendor finance model continues its successful journey and has proven to be sustainable thanks to long-term and mutually beneficial commitments with our partners.”

This is the second consecutive year that DLL has won the digital innovation award from Leasing Life. The digital innovation award is meant to recognize a policy, product or leasing related site or application that pushes the envelope on how commercial lessors relate to their customers.

“DLL showed to the judges their efforts are now far more than ‘under development’ or ‘planned for the future’ but were already ahead of the market with their first online scoring some 25 years ago, as well as being a pioneer at developing an e-commerce platform,” the awards jury said.

“Dynamic markets are driving change in customers’ needs, which is the focal point of our efforts,” Rafe Rosato, chief innovation officer at DLL, said. “Thorough customer assessment taught us that to remain an industry leader in a fast paced and ever-changing digital world, we needed to do things differently. Even if it means changing the way we have done business for over 50 years, DLL is disrupting and transforming its business and helping to enable the success of our partners and their customers.”