Monitor sat down with five prominent leaders from Monitor 100 companies to discuss the past, present and future of the industry and their organizations. Each leader reflects on their companies’ successes over the past year, the challenges and opportunities they’re currently facing and their plans for strategic adaption to an evolving market landscape coupled with rapid technological advancement.... read more

Monitor 100 2024

Leaders from three Monitor 100 companies — 1st Source, Global Jet Capital and BMO — discuss their journeys into international markets, reveal pros and cons of emerging versus developed markets around the world and point to current opportunities abroad.... read more

Monitor 100 2024

Monitor hosted its second annual event, Converge, on May 15 – 16 in Philadelphia. The conference ended with an awards gala at the National Constitution Center, where Monitor awarded over a dozen designations. read more

MAY 17, 2024 - 5:41 am

Eric Miller shares his take on the current state of equipment finance and the mutually reliant relationship between banks and non-banks in the space. He outlines the go-to-market strategy of the new venture he is leading for Ares Capital Management, Ansley Park Capital, and provides his outlook on the future market composition of the industry. ... read more

March 2024

Dale R. Kluga

Since my first job at Continental Illinois National Bank in 1981, (which in 1988 became the largest bank failure in U.S. history at the time), I’ve always been a hopeless proponent of convincing banks to enter the leasing business including,... read more

March 14, 2024

What are the practical applications of AI in equipment finance? What can it do today and what can we train it to do tomorrow? Valerie Gerard and Denis Stypulkoski explore possibilities for streamlining sales, documentation, underwriting, asset valuation and more.... read more

Jan/Feb 2024

Does your company have a winning culture, or is there room for improvement? The leaders of companies selected for Monitor’s 2024 Best Companies list in the culture category share the traits that set their companies apart and discuss nine common themes inherent in the best company cultures.... read more

Jan/Feb 2024

In the first edition of Monitor’s new international column, Sudhir Amembal, chairman and CEO of Amembal & Halladay, discusses some of the what’s, why’s and how’s of the global equipment finance market.... read more

Jan/Feb 2024 2024

According to a new survey of more than 734 secured finance executives from Secured Research and Data Solutions, a Monitor/ABF Journal joint venture, less than 20% of equipment finance leaders and less than 25% of asset-based lending leaders see their firms leveraging emerging technologies. read more

MAR 4, 2024 - 7:02 am

As the first woman to lead the ELFA, Leigh Lytle brings a new voice and outlook to the industry. In an interview with Monitor, she identifies seven opportunities and challenges the equipment finance industry faces today and outlines the association’s goals to address them. ... read more

Jan/Feb 2024

Santander Bank unified its commercial and industrial business and its commercial real estate, equipment finance and vehicle financing business into one U.S. commercial bank under the leadership of Michael Lee. read more

OCT 20, 2023 - 6:35 am

Confidence in the equipment finance market declined to 40.1 in October, a decrease from the September index of 50.3, according to the ELFF. read more

OCT 19, 2023 - 6:40 am

Leasepath entered a strategic engagement with Great American Insurance Group’s Specialty Equipment Division designed to innovate insurance management for the equipment finance industry. read more

OCT 19, 2023 - 6:35 am

When the equipment leasing industry was created, leasing was the go-to product. But as time went on, the industry morphed into a subset of secured lending. Paul Bent explores the cycles of the industry and says as market conditions shift, the old roots of yesteryear may be giving rise to a new generation of lessors.... read more

50th Anniversary 2023

Rimon appointed Scott Chait as an equipment leasing and finance partner in New Jersey. read more

NOV 30, 2022 - 7:21 am