Rita Garwood

Banks have been steadily increasing their presence in equipment finance over the years via mergers and acquisitions and by hiring experienced leadership teams. When the Monitor 100 launched in 1992, U.S. bank affiliates contributed 17% of the ranking’s net assets.... read more

February 27, 2024

Eastern Funding’s Macrolease division selected Ivory Consulting’s SuperTRUMP to model and price its pre- and after-tax finance products, such as fair market value leases, $1 buyout leases and municipal leases and loans. read more

FEB 22, 2023 - 7:22 am

Eastern Funding, a financial lender to laundromats, car washes, tow and recovery companies and other businesses, appointed Paul Vecker, Tony Regan and Ron Ciliberti to its executive leadership team. read more

AUG 12, 2022 - 7:29 am

Eastern Funding, a financial lender to laundromats and other businesses, merged operations with Macrolease, a specialized equipment finance and leasing company serving the fitness, wellness and nutrition markets. read more

JUN 15, 2022 - 7:38 am

Equipment Finance Cares held its New York/New Jersey event last week at the Rockland County Country Club in Sparkill, NY, with more than 40 equipment finance professionals representing 31 organizations in attendance.  read more

AUG 27, 2021 - 6:15 am

The next Equipment Finance Cares event from Paperclip Publishing will be held on Aug. 17 in Sparkill, NY.  Lovern Gordon, a Paperclip author who has been with Boston Financial & Equity Corporation since 1999, will headline the event, while Lisa Rafter, CEO of Monitor, and Jesse Johnson, vice president of sales and marketing at JDR Solutions, will moderate the event’s thought leadership panels. read more

JUL 20, 2021 - 7:02 am

When Paul Vecker signed up to lead Macrolease, a stable 50-year-old company that specializes in financing fitness equipment, his goal was to grow the company. But when the COVID-19 pandemic struck, he found that motivating and inspiring his team as they worked tirelessly through a crisis was just as rewarding. ... read more

May 2021

In a livestream held on Dec. 3, Kevin Truitt of LTi, Nick Fong of AP Equipment Financing, Frank Swann of ENGS Commercial Finance and Paul Vecker of Macrolease Corporation discussed emerging trends such as self-service portals, e-docs, AI, machine learning and more. read more

DEC 9, 2020 - 8:08 am

Registration is open for Monitor’s next Live+ event, “EF & Technology: Where Are We Now?” which will be held on Thursday, Dec. 3 at 3 p.m. ET. read more

NOV 19, 2020 - 7:26 am

Paul Vecker joined equipment finance company Macrolease as president and CEO. He succeeds Daniel West, who founded the company in 1969 and has served as its CEO since. read more

MAY 30, 2019 - 7:10 am