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Marlin Acquires Fleet Financing Resources

Bank holding company Marlin Business Services acquired Fleet Financing Resources, a specialty lender with a foundation in transportation equipment financing. read more

SEP 20, 2018 - 7:20 am

Petro to Lead Waterfall Specialty Commercial Finance Group

Waterfall Asset Management launched its Specialty Commercial Finance Group SCFG led by Andrea Petro to provide high yield senior secured debt to specialty commercial finance companies. read more

SEP 20, 2018 - 7:18 am

North Star Leasing Makes Four New Hires, Promotes Three

North Star Leasing added Jay Condor, Scott Goodwin and Justin Ward to its Sales team and Rachel Montross to its Funding & Accounting team. Susan Stevens was promoted to broker relationship manager, Alex Dean is now Syndication manager and Kit Antinozzi is now a member of the Documentation team. read more

SEP 18, 2018 - 7:25 am

Stearns Breaking Ground to Accommodate Equipment Leasing Growth

Stearns Bank will soon break ground on an 11,000 square-foot addition to its Equipment Finance division in Albany,MN to accommodate growing operations. read more

SEP 18, 2018 - 7:05 am

SEC Charges Citigroup for Dark Pool Misrepresentations

The Securities and Exchange Commission entered an order finding that Citigroup Global Markets misled users of a dark pool operated by one of its affiliates. read more

SEP 17, 2018 - 7:20 am

RVI Group Promotes GE Vet Morin to SVP/Commercial Equipment Business

Residual value insurance provider RVI Group promoted Roger Morin to senior vice president. read more

SEP 13, 2018 - 7:25 am

Encina Hires Three GE Capital Vets for Danbury Headquarters, Promotes Giaquinto

Encina Equipment Finance hired Andy Brown, Katherine (Reichle) Branch and Beata Nicpon for the company’s Danbury, CT headquarters and promoted James Giaquinto, who joined EEF at its launch in June 2017. read more

SEP 12, 2018 - 7:16 am

ELFF: Trucking Industry to Remain Strong for Next Year

The U.S. over-the-road transportation/trucking industry is having its best growth in years and is forecast to remain strong for the next 12 to 18 months before softening, according to the 2018-2019 Vertical Market Series – Road Transportation. read more

SEP 12, 2018 - 7:15 am

DLL Supports T-Mobile Apple Leasing Program

T-Mobile launched an iPhone and iPad leasing for business program that will extend financing from Apple funded through DLL Group. read more

SEP 6, 2018 - 7:15 am

Kamp Leaves CFO Position at Marlin Business Services

W. Taylor Kamp left his position as senior vice president and chief financial officer at Marlin Business Services. He will remain with Marlin as a consultant through the end of this year to assist in the transition. read more

SEP 5, 2018 - 7:15 am

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A Little Something About Proof of Insurance (This Article Confers No Rights Upon the Reader)

Kenneth Weinberg

July/August 2018

Equipment finance agreements often include robust provisions addressing a variety of insurance issues, including obligations to maintain property and/or liability insurance. Of course, contractual provisions obligating the lessee or borrower to maintain insurance are of little value if the requisite... read more

The Age of Omnichannel: Utilizing Technology to Meet Customers Where They Are

Rita Garwood

July/August 2018

MONITOR: AI and robotics process automation are hot topics. How close is the equipment finance industry to adoption of these trends and how will it affect large and small lessors? GHAURI: With tens of millions of customers holding loans worth... read more

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100% Depreciation and Aircraft Personal Use

David G. Mayer, Partner, Shackelford, Melton & McKinley

March 2018

David G. Mayer, who is a partner in the global Aviation Practice Group at Shackelford, Bowen, McKinley & Norton, explains how an aircraft owner can claim 100% bonus depreciation even if they plan on using it for personal use.

Examining Sales Commission Plans and Pricing

Scott Thacker, CEO, Ivory Consulting

January 2018

Ivory Consulting’s CEO Scott Thacker provides advice and counsel to equipment lessors and lenders on ways to improve customer satisfaction, enhance employee engagement and increase shareholder value using modeling and pricing techniques.

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