Patricia Voorhees

Financial technology — fintech — has reshaped the financing landscape for more than a decade. How has this first generation of fintech transformed equipment finance? How will the next? Turns out Fintech Gen 1 has proven more of an industry... read more

August 2019

Valerie Gerard

With all the hype about blockchain revolutionizing the way business gets done globally, have you ever stopped to think about whether the equipment leasing and finance industry is ready to dive into this potentially disruptive technology? There’s ample evidence of... read more

June 2019

Patrick Gaskins

There is no arguing that the pace at which change is occurring is quicker than it has ever been before. It used to be that when new technology was introduced it was on the market for some time before it... read more

October 2018

Vernon Tirey

2017 was an impressive and successful year for the equipment financing industry, with a 4% YTD increase in new business volume and a projected 4.3% expansion in equipment and software investment in Q4/17. As 2017 comes to a close, it’s... read more

December 2017

Gary Amos, Anthony Casciano

One of the biggest trends worth celebrating this National Manufacturing Day (October 1) is how digital solutions can keep powering manufacturing forward. At the 2016 MAPI Executive Summit, Raj Batra, president of Siemens’ Digital Factory Division, noted that companies are... read more

September 2017

Frank Bussone, Tom Toton

The problem with Big Data is that it’s too big. This is especially true as you get higher up in an organization. C-suite executives are expected to make decisions on hundreds — sometimes thousands — of issues and don’t have... read more

November 2016

Farooq Ghauri

In a time of exponential growth and emergence of cloud based solutions, it is hard not to wonder why some financial institutions haven’t been quick to adapt to the paradigm shift. Previously, the cost of enterprise software was exorbitantly high... read more

July 2016

Vernon Tirey

Are you old school or new school? I’m not talking about whether you prefer the Commodore 64 or the Sony PlayStation 4. I’m talking about the philosophy and approach you employ to finance equipment deals. Old school methods evolved from... read more

Doug Andring

The early years of technology vendor finance were quite simple – it started with the basic financing of hard assets like computers, servers and printers. Finance companies quickly gained an understanding of the future value of these hard assets and... read more

April 2016

Vernon Tirey

When I was a kid, people smoked on airplanes. When I was in college and flying to Europe on a regular basis to visit my girlfriend, now wife, airlines began introducing “non-smoking” flights. It was an awkward transition. But today... read more

December 2015

Scott Mishoe

The new and used truck markets have been quite hot over the past few years. Part of the reason was the pent-up demand from fleets that didn’t want to deal with the 2007 and 2010 emissions upgrades. Their fleets got... read more

Vernon Tirey

Five years ago I was introduced to the equipment financing industry. Having implemented enterprise-wide automation solutions for large financial services companies, I was surprised that the industry is vastly manual. After studying the industry, and talking to lots of business... read more

September 2015

Jerry Parrotto

It is with a sense of renewed enthusiasm that we launch this newest version of monitordaily. This is our fifth iteration of the website that was first introduced to the equipment finance industry back in 1996. One of the hallmarks... read more

Sep 2014