For decades, the leasing industry has been continually exposed to fraud by the lack of a national equipment asset register. Although...

Over the summer, many asset finance brokers have received one or more thuds on their doorsteps - or the email equivalent - being annual...

Since July, most asset finance brokers who have been paying the minimum annual FCA fees of around £600 (including various extras) have...

Hot on the heels of changes to FCA rules affecting the use of Difference in Charges commission models (see my previous articles), a...

Barclays’ announcement in April that it was selling what remained of its UK asset finance business came too late to be reflected in this...

As part of its Q1 results announcements last week, Barclays announced a deal to offer credit to Amazon customers in the UK, building on...

The new 130% first-year capital allowance for qualifying plant and machinery assets, termed the 'Super-deduction' by Chancellor Rishi...

It’s no surprise that some unwelcome finance practices take place in some car dealerships. Seven years after taking over consumer...

This article is a follow-up to my blog in August after the FCA issued its final rules concerning discretionary commission models for...

Yesterday, two quite bizarre points about the Bounce Bank Loans Scheme (BBLS) emerged, as reported by James Hurley in the Times. First,...

As many leasing businesses start to approach their September or December year-ends, finance directors, boards and external auditors will...

On Monday the FCA issued its final rules concerning discretionary commission models ('difference in charges' (DiC0 models) for motor...

Leasing Life has republished an article from Early May, which looked at the funding prospects for UK non-banks asset finance lenders. The...

Why do firms lease equipment? The potential reasons are many...the cash flow benefits, funding availability, flexibility, convenience,...

Why asset finance brokers are more important than might first appear

Over the past fortnight or so, there has been a great deal of press coverage and asset finance industry debate over the efficacy of the...

This is an edited version of a blog published on 31 March 2020 (see https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/solving-how-problem-non-banks-support...

It may seem odd that this year’s Asset Finance Europe 50 (AFE50) survey is published straight after the UK general election, after all...

Few in the motor finance industry won’t be aware that the FCA has published proposals to ban ‘Difference in Charges’ (DiC) commission...