Brian Cantwell speaks to Johnnie Halliday, Linedata director of sales, lending and leasing software Solutions, about the challenges of operating a leasing business in the UK market and how to overcom…
Alistair Darling: a financial perspective
At the Leasing Life Chief Executives’ Lending Forum, Brian Cantwell spoke to former UK chancellor Alistair Darling about the global financial crash, Brexit and the outlook for British business.…
CELF conference: Is the tide set to rise?
At the 2018 Leasing Life Chief Executives’ Lending Forum, executives from across the lending industry spectrum examined what the future holds in terms of risk and regulation – and what is the best way…
Poland: reflecting on double-digit growth
Both recent research and market data suggest the leasing industry in Poland is doing a pretty good job of convincing small businesses in particular that it offers an efficient financing mechanism.…
Belgium’s SME financing act: more protection or tighter restrictions?
Earlier this year, Belgium woke up to a new landscape in protections for SME borrowers. Amendments to the 2013 SME Financing Act came into force, extending protections for SMEs and placing heftier reg…
Beyond the asset: the future of the product as a service
Since leasing’s earliest days, access to usage without the burden of ownership has always been a major selling point for the asset finance industry. Does the usership model have the potential to becom…
Peer-to-peer: the express route to business lending
P2P platforms can radically reduce the costs associated with setting up a business lending infrastructure. In an already-crowded market, this could be the difference between success and failure – espe…
Time for UK agriculture to update its financial base?
Fortunes in UK agriculture have been varied in recent years. In an industry traditionally based around ownership of assets, could leasing give farmers some much-needed financial breathing space? Loren…
The Netherlands: where leasing dares to trust in the future
These are good times for Dutch leasing companies, which have managed to build on the upturn in demand in 2016 from companies that are already …
Can community banking fix the no-man’s land of lending to SMES?
At an October meeting, the London Assembly’s Economy Committee set out to assess what “the Mayor, financial services sector and the charitable sector can do …