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Wintrust Commercial Finance Adds Three Account Managers to Direct Sales Team

Wintrust Commercial Finance, a division of Wintrust Asset Finance, hired Ignacio Solares, Ed Parker and Garrett Wilkins as account managers on its direct originations team located in its Frisco, TX headquarters. read more

JUL 17, 2018 - 3:56 pm

LEAF Selects Odessa’s LeaseWave to Enhance Equipment Leasing Operations

LEAF Commercial Capital, a subsidiary of People’s United Bank, selected the Odessa platform and the LeaseWave product suite with the aim of further enhancing its equipment leasing operations. read more

JUL 17, 2018 - 6:49 am

Wells Fargo Reports ‘Flat’ H1/18 Lease Financing Results

Wells Fargo reported lease financing average balances for the six months of 2018 were $19.3 billion compared to $19.1 billion a year earlier. The average yield for the period of 4.89% compared to 4.88% for the same six months in 2017. read more

JUL 16, 2018 - 7:25 am

Verdant Commercial Capital Acquires Machine Tool Financier Intech Funding

Verdant Commercial Capital of Cincinnati, OH acquired Intech Funding of Monrovia, CA. Intech is focused on financing and leasing for manufacturing companies nationwide. read more

JUL 16, 2018 - 7:16 am

Key EF Names Lester Equipment Finance Officer of Business Banking

Key Equipment Finance named Jenna Lester equipment finance officer of business banking. Lester will work with Key’s business banking team to support customer finance operations throughout Colorado and Utah. read more

JUL 12, 2018 - 7:06 am

Stonebriar Commercial Finance Names Rorschach Managing Director of Originations

Reagan Rorschach joined Stonebriar Commercial Finance as managing director of originations covering the Central Region. Based in Plano, TX, Rorschach will augment Stonebriar Commercial Finance’s direct originations efforts in the Southern portion of the U.S. read more

JUL 10, 2018 - 6:51 am

Top Five Office Equipment Lenders Account for 69.6% of May Total

The top 20 lenders in the segment, in the aggregate, filed financing statements covering a total of 115 office equipment related filings during the month of May 2018. read more

JUL 10, 2018 - 6:38 am

Top Five Logging Equipment Lenders Account for 65.2% of May Total

The top 20 lenders in the segment, in the aggregate, filed financing statements covering a total of 276 logging equipment related filings during the month of May 2018. read more

JUL 9, 2018 - 7:07 am

Top Five Machine Tool Lenders Account for 33.7% of May Total

The top 20 lenders in the segment, in the aggregate, filed financing statements covering a total of 519 new machine tool related filings during the month of May 2018. read more

JUL 6, 2018 - 7:36 am

Top Five Agriculture Equipment Lenders Account for 84.5% of May Total

The top 20 lenders in the segment, in the aggregate, filed financing statements covering a total of 12,623 new agriculture equipment related filings during the month of May 2018. read more

JUL 5, 2018 - 7:16 am

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